Compact
would take Kansas out of federal Medicaid and Medicare programs
By Jim McLean
KHI News Service
Feb. 7, 2012
TOPEKA — Kansas legislators are being urged to
join a multistate compact formed to challenge the federal government’s
authority to set health policy.
Dan Tripp, national field director for the
nonprofit Health Care Compact Alliance, testified Monday to the House Health
and Human Services Committee in support of a bill that would authorize Kansas’
membership in the Health Care Compact. Similar bills have passed and been
signed into law in four states: Georgia, Texas, Missouri and Oklahoma.
The measures – including the one being considered
in Kansas, House Bill 2520 – are based on model legislation promoted by the
American Legislative Exchange Council, a nonprofit, pro-business organization
that includes state legislators – mostly conservative Republicans – and
businesses as members.
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