The Joint Economic Committee - Minority report released Thursday by Congressional Democrats projects Republican tax cut proposals could mean a one-third cut to Medicaid nationwide. Children, the elderly and rural residents stand to lose the most.

Find out how the proposed Medicaid budget cuts could affect millions of enrollees and the health centers they rely on.

Kansas cancer advocates were at the statehouse on Wednesday, March 5, asking lawmakers to expand and protect access to health care. The American Cancer Society lobbied for Medicaid expansion for nearly 150,

Potential Medicaid cuts could devastate America’s teetering rural health-care system and jeopardize Republicans’ political power among rural voters.

Our state continues to see new laws introduced each year that diminish funding and the authority of health departments — just last month, two new bills were proposed that would effectively eliminate vaccine requirements across Kansas.

President Donald Trump has vowed to keep Medicaid intact, but he’s endorsed the GOP’s budget plan that would cut billions of dollars from the program. A group of local advocates say it’s a move that would hurt Kansas.

Medicaid, the public health insurance program serving millions of Americans, is a target of many Republican lawmakers in Washington, D.C., who seek to reduce expenditures as part of a government-efficiency effort. Medicaid covers about one in five Americans.

Kansas has received a grade “C” on the annual Kansas Oral Health Report Card, published by Oral Health Kansas, for the fifth consecutive year.

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids underscored her opposition to federal Medicaid cuts Friday and called out “failure of leadership” in Topeka for the Legislature’s refusal to expand

Share on Facebook Share on Twitter The Kansas Attorney General’s Office said the state has joined a nationwide settlement in a Medicaid fraud case involving the Walgreens pharmacy chain. Under the terms of the agreement,

Republicans in Congress have gotten a crash course in Medicaid during the last few weeks, as they eye the health care program for lower-income Americans as a source for hundreds of billions of dollars in savings to pay for tax cuts.

(WIBW) - Kansas cancer advocates were at the statehouse on Wednesday, March 5, asking lawmakers to expand and protect access to health care. The American Cancer Society lobbied for Medicaid ...