Affordable Care Act

A private insurer’s 2018 premiums in Kansas ran too high — at least compared to the medical bills it had to pay for customers that year.That means…

Governor Mike Parson signed an executive order earlier this summer creating a task force to look into something that could bring big changes to how...

Segment 1: Could a retail model make health care in America more affordable?As the country grapples with the ever-increasing cost of health care, we…

A deal to clear the way for Medicaid expansion next year that some Kansas lawmakers thought they had brokered in the waning hours of their just-finished…

Patients who are fed up with the bureaucracy of the health insurance industry are ditching the copays and high deductibles for a different way to get…

In a recent national survey, farmers said the biggest threat to their livelihoods wasn’t low commodity prices or global trade policies. It was the rising…

The stakes run high for 130,000-some low-income Kansans who stand to gain from expanding Medicaid coverage — and for the political players who will decide…

Even as it seeks to have the Affordable Care Act declared unconstitutional, the Trump administration on Monday reported that about 11.4 million people…

The Kansas Legislature is in the meat of its 2019 session. Not quite halfway through, but well into the “getting down to business” part.As such, there are…

The word audacious has a double meaning.Depending on whom you talk to, either definition might apply to the way the Kansas Farm Bureau is proposing to…

Kansas Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s Medicaid expansion proposal is a retread.It’s virtually the same bill that former Republican Gov. Sam Brownback…

Falling through the cracksAt best, from 2016 to 2017, states kept the number of children without insurance stable.Most did worse than that.Kansas saw…