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Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with low income in the United States, providing free health insurance to 85 million low-income and disabled people as of 2022; [3] in 2019, the program paid for half of all U.S. births. [4]
Since then, HEW, has been reorganized as the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) in 1980. This consequently brought Medicare and Medicaid under the jurisdiction of the HHS. [8] In March 1977, the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) was established under HEW. [9] HCFA became responsible for the coordination of Medicare and ...
Susan Kay Mosier (born July 10, 1959) [1] is an American physician who is the former Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. [2] [3] On November 13, 2014, Kansas Governor Sam Brownback named Dr. Mosier as the Interim Secretary, replacing Dr. Robert Moser, who stepped down at the end of November. [2]
The Kansas Legislature has scheduled public hearings for Wednesday on the issue of Medicaid expansion, which hasn't gotten a hearing since 2020. Medicaid expansion in Kansas is about to get its ...
Medicaid expansion, which was made available in the Affordable Care Act, is estimated to extend coverage to more than 150,000 Kansans. The state is one of 10 in the nation that has not yet ...
Colorado is a Medicaid expansion state, and unlike Kansas, it has not lost a rural hospital. Not one. I saw the difference between a state that did not expand Medicaid — and one that did.
Gov. Laura Kelly unveiled legislation to expand Medicaid in Kansas after five failed attempts. Though some Republicans are on board, leadership isn't.
As of 2022, Kansas was one of 12 states that has not passed Medicaid expansion, [13] though it remains a measure that a large majority of Kansans support. [14] Resman has never supported Medicaid expansion, stating as recently as October, 2022 that he continues to oppose it on the grounds that it would cost "who knows the amount of money". [ 15 ]