(Syndicated to Kansas newspapers July 11, 2016)
It’s pretty standard for conservative candidates for the Legislature—mostly Republicans—to blast “Obamacare” as they have labeled the Affordable Care Act. It’s pretty catchy in some circles.
The idea of forcing people to buy health insurance which subsidizes health insurance, thereby making more health care available to the poor who can’t afford it, does sound a little…well…heavy-handed to many.
But the upcoming session of the Legislature which hundreds of Kansans are campaigning to join may be the first in which chances are just a little less than even Kansas might jump into the ACA and its expansion of health care for the poor. No, not good, but at least a little less dismal than this year.