GOP lawmakers block health care for 130,000 people in Kansas [View all]

Source: American Independent



By Dan Desai Martin -May 22, 2020 12:45 PM

Despite the pandemic and high unemployment, Republicans in Kansas ended this year's legislative session by blocking Medicaid expansion.

On Thursday, Kansas Republicans blocked a final effort by Democratic lawmakers to expand Medicaid during the 2020 state legislative session, the Wichita Eagle reported.

The failure to pass the expansion leaves 130,000 residents who would have been eligible for it without access to the health care program.

Democratic state Sen. Dinah Sykes attempted to force a vote on the Medicaid expansion, but Republicans used a procedural tactic to stop it. Both chambers of Kansas' legislature have adjourned until early in 2021.

Throughout the session, Republican lawmakers tied the expansion of Medicaid to an anti-abortion constitutional amendment, refusing to pass one without the other. The "Value Them Both" amendment was designed, in the words of the Kansas House resolution, "to amend the bill of rights of the constitution of the state of Kansas by adding a new section thereto stating that there is no constitutional right to abortion, and reserving to the people the ability to regulate abortion through the elected members of the legislature of the state of Kansas."

Published with permission of The American Independent Foundation.

Read more: https://americanindependent.com/kansas-gop-medicaid-expansion-blocked-health-care-coronavirus-covid-19/

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So these right to lifers in Kansas legislature, are really a death cult, if they couldn't get there abortion bill items then in there mind just screw everyone, in fact screw 130,000 human beings. I guess they didn't read that this pandemic is also infecting children right along with adults, so the "Value Them Both" amendment, really is, a they don't value life at all.................and the citizens of that state keep voting these republicans into power..............amazing.......