Area legislator: Missouri lawmakers nearly reached medicaid expansion deal

By | June 10, 2014 |

A last-minute deal to expand Medicaid in Missouri almost materialized in the waning days of this year’s legislative session, briefly breathing life into an issue that had seemed all but doomed. Missouri State Sen. Ryan Silvey, a Kansas City Republican, provided a behind-the-scenes look at high-level negotiations that occurred just before the session ended without an…

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Aches & Pains? It pays to shop around

By | June 5, 2014 |
Operating room

Considering a major joint replacement? If you check into the University of Kansas Hospital, you might be charged more than $115,000. But if you go to Olathe Medical Center just 22 miles down the road, you’re apt to be billed just over $50,000. Coping with renal failure? At Truman Medical Center, the bill is likely…

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Retiring CEO reflects on his experiences at Truman Medical Centers

By | June 5, 2014 |
Bluford talks with Crosby Kemper

After only two weeks as the new CEO of Kansas City’s safety-net hospital system, John Bluford called an emergency 6:30 a.m. meeting of the Truman Medical Centers board. After assurances that he was not going to quit, Bluford told the board members, “I understood when I took this position that the system was broken. It’s…

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Brownback discusses opposition to Medicaid expansion in Heritage Foundation Interview

By | June 4, 2014 |

The inaugural edition of a Heritage Foundation news site features an interview with Gov. Sam Brownback explaining “how Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion hurts states.” The interview http://dailysignal.com/2014/06/03/interview-brownback-discusses-medicaid-expansion-hurts-states/ is featured in the Daily Signal, a new online publication “supported by the resources and intellectual firepower” of the foundation, which describes its mission as promoting “conservative public policies…

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