Kansas City Fights Medicaid Cuts

Here's the local argument as neither progressive nor conservative politicos have the courage to advocate the same kind of UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE that nearly all of our Western Allies enjoy and which American taxpayers subsidize in so many other nations across the world. 

Check-it . . . 

Kansas City-based Legal Aid of Western Missouri is co-counsel in a lawsuit challenging the federal change. Executive Director Amber Christ described the definition of medically frail as “narrow.”

“Our clients won't lose coverage because they don't qualify for Medicaid or for the exemption,” she said. “They'll lose it because a form didn't get turned in, a deadline passed, or in some situations, a doctor couldn't produce records fast enough that the rule is now demanding from them.”

Under the act, adults who receive coverage through Medicaid expansion must demonstrate they have completed a specified number of hours to obtain or maintain coverage. It does not require verification of the condition’s severity in relation to ability to work.

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140,000 Missourians are at risk of losing Medicaid coverage under a new rule. One enrollee is suing