Health care advocates in Kansas say they will move forward with legislation that would expand Medicaid in the Sunflower State, despite the election of Donald Trump.
As KCUR reports,the nationwide elections this month may signal an end to Obamacare. And Kansas Medicaid expansion advocates are much less optimistic about the future than they were a month ago. But they’re moving forward anyway.
David Jordan, the director of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, says there’s still significant support in Kansas, both in the public and among legislators, for expanding KanCare—despite Trump’s election. And he isn’t wrong.
Kansas election victories by dozens of moderate Republicans and Democrats appear to have given advocates for Medicaid expansion majorities in both the Kansas House and Senate. But none of that will matter if Republicans in Washington scuttle the program.