News from Brownbackistan: Brownstain vetoes Medicaid Expansion

http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article141664384.html

TOPEKA
Gov. Sam Brownback has vetoed a bill that would expand Medicaid in Kansas, potentially setting up another showdown with the Legislature.

In his veto message, Brownback said the bill doesn’t meet his three criteria for evaluating expansion: that the plan should eliminate a waiting list for disability services, be budget neutral and include a work requirement.

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The federal government pays for 90 percent of the expansion costs for states that extend Medicaid coverage to people at up to 133 percent of the federal poverty line. Some 150,000 Kansans could join Medicaid under expansion.

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The pro-expansion group Alliance for a Healthy Kansas said the Legislature can override the veto and called on Kansans to call their lawmakers.

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If this holds, people will die. Hospitals will close.