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Kansas lawmakers must expand Medicaid in the 2022 legislative session


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Failure to expand Medicaid hurts the bottom line of our Kansas local communities. Push your lawmakers to act.
By Shannon Portillo and Jade Piros de Carvalho
Special to Gannett Kansas
As local governments across Kansas work on their budgets this summer, counties and cities are struggling to keep mill levies stable amid revenue shortfalls and skyrocketing material costs.
Unfortunately, state lawmakers’ refusal to expand Medicaid left federal dollars on the table that could have offset local tax burdens. To date, Kansas has forfeited more than $4.9 billion because of the Legislature’s refusal to expand Medicaid. Kansas will lose an additional $450 million in American Rescue Plan funding by continuing to not act. ....

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County leaders receive update on efforts to reduce jail stays for people with serious mental illness | News, Sports, Jobs - Lawrence Journal-World: news, information, headlines and events in Lawrence, Kansas


The Douglas County Courthouse and downtown Lawrence are pictured in an aerial photo Saturday, July 13, 2019.
Douglas County still has work to do in its efforts to reduce the number of people in its jail with serious mental illness, county leaders heard Wednesday.
As part of its meeting Wednesday, the Douglas County Commission received a report detailing the number of jail bookings and other data for people with serious mental illness, or SMI. The data is being tracked as part of the county’s latest effort to reduce jail stays for people with SMI, which is part of the nationwide Stepping Up project. ....

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