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Advocates press for higher protected income limit for medically needy and retention of Medicaid expansion funding
Summary
Mental-health, disability-rights and expansion advocates urged the committee to raise the protected income level for the medically needy program, support private psychiatric-hospital funding and retain budget language and funding for Medicaid expansion in the governor’s proposal.
Several advocacy organizations and service providers urged the Committee on Social Services Budget to raise the protected income limit for the medically needy program and to retain funding that would enable legislative consideration of Medicaid expansion.
Speakers including Mary Jones (Kansas Mental Health Coalition), Mike Burgess (Disability Rights Center of Kansas), Sean Gatewood (KanCare Advocates Network), and April Holman (Alliance for Healthy Kansas) described how the current medically needy protected income level — which testimony said has…
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