Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback cuts Medicaid reimbursements, higher-education spending

[demtenjeep]

http://www.kansas.com/news/politics-government/article78450362.html


Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback cuts Medicaid reimbursements, higher-education spending



Gov. Sam Brownback’s office announced $97 million in budget cuts on Wednesday, with more than half of that coming from the state’s Medicaid system.

Most state agencies will have a 4 percent cut. The governor exempted the Department of Corrections, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, the Kansas Highway Patrol and state hospitals.



Public K-12 education, which represents half of the state’s general fund budget, also was shielded from cuts. Lawmakers had written that provision into the budget bill.

Medicaid, which provides health care for low-income Kansans, accounts for 20 percent of the state’s general fund budget and shouldered the brunt of the budget cuts. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment and the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, the two agencies that administer the program, saw $57.4 million in combined cuts.

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[demtenjeep]

1. and he threatens more cuts

fuck this nutbag

[greymattermom]

2. They need to close some of the smaller state colleges (universities NOT)

Emporia. Pittsburgh. You pick 3. K State and KU cover the state well enough. Wichita State has some positives. The rest of them need to close.

[greymattermom]

4. A friend of mine teaches pre nursing, etc at KU.

They just laid him off with 10 days notice. Anyone who signed up for his classes for the summer will be disappointed. And some of them, maybe all of them, won't get their degrees on time and won't become medical professionals in Kansas on time either. Good luck, these decisions have consequences.

[demtenjeep]

5. what a bunch of shit

I graduated from Emporia

my kids graduated from WSU

it is a matter of location and opportunity


why should we have to cut it



brownback is what needs to be cut. even most business owners agree they need to pay their share of taxes to save Kansas from the disaster that is brownback

[Jeffersons Ghost]

3. I bet some Kansas doctors and medical lobbyist cut him for reducing their Medicaid feeding frenzy

[WhiteTara]

6. Look carefully. With Trump this will be the whole

country's future.