Kansas Guv Kelly Regrets 'Dumbest' Cuts

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Kelly repeatedly urged the Republican-led Legislature to broaden eligibility standards to include as many as 150,000 working adults who earned too much for traditional government-sponsored Medicaid and too little to qualify private-insurance subsidies. Political opponents of expansion argued extending benefits to adults 19 to 64 years of age making no more than $21,600 per year was too costly for the state or clashed with philosophical objections to deepening entitlement programs.

“I think it’s the dumbest thing Kansas has ever done,” Kelly said during an economic conference at University of Kansas. “Not only has it hurt the people who would have been eligible for insurance under the Medicaid program, but just financially we have left over $8 billion in Washington, D.C. We’ve seen it play out in the closure of some of our rural hospitals and certainly with so many of them today on the brink of it.”

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