Kansas Insurance Regulator Backs Medicaid Expansion
Associated Press - Tue 06:54 PM 03/05/2013
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says she supports an expansion of the state's Medicaid program.
Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger says she supports an expansion of the state's Medicaid program encouraged by the federal government's overhaul of health care.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Praeger said Tuesday that Kansas is hurting poor residents by not expanding Medicaid coverage for the needy and disabled.
The federal health care law promises to pay for most of the expansion.
Praeger already has broken with many fellow Republicans, including Gov. Sam Brownback, over the 2010 federal health care law. The insurance commissioner has praised the overhaul as a step toward universal access to health care.
A resolution expressing opposition to expanding Medicaid is pending in the Kansas House. Brownback has not taken a position on the issue, saying he will leave it to the Legislature.
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ksfarmdude
Thursday 7 March 2013 09:26 Report this comment
That kinda flys in the face of sammy brokebacks ideaogy