When Governor Kelly announced her annual budget last week, a lot of money was invested in higher education, as well as K-12 education policy. One policy she would like to see in place soon is free school lunches. The budget also call for expanding Medicaid. This is the governor’s seventh attempt to persuade the legislature to expand. Kelly spoke on the issue last year:
The budget brings more than $1 billion a year in taxpayer dollars back to Kansas annually that is currently sent to other states. Kelly says medicaid expansion will provide access to affordable health care for 150,000 more Kansans and cut health care costs for everyone else. Opponents say it would cost the state in the long run and have shot down the idea several years in a row.
