Wednesday, February 8, 2012

From KHI: Compact to remove KS from federal Medicaid/Medicare


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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