2021
Letter to the Editor in the April 27 Kansas City Star calling on the Missouri Legislature to restore Medicaid expansion funding.
2020
Kansas City Medical Society Statement on Passage of Missouri Amendment 2, Aug. 4, 2020
Amendment 2 Supporter Ads from the Kansas City Medical Society Foundation and the Kansas City Medical Society.
Coronavirus crisis makes it clearer than ever that Missouri needs Medicaid expansion. Guest commentary by Qiana Thomason, president and CEO of the Health Forward Foundation. Kansas City Star, May 20, 2020
Speaking Out Against Kansas Catholic Leaders’ Choice of Constitutional Amendment on Abortion Over Medicaid Expansion. KCMS Foundation past President Sheila McGreevy, MD, in this commentary calls on Kansas Catholic leaders’ decision to oppose Medicaid expansion as leverage to gain a constitutional amendment restricting abortion. Kansas City Star, March 18, 2020 (913 Section)
Making the Case for Medicaid Expansion. KCMS Past President and Kansas City Medicine editor Michael O’Dell, MD, MSHA, FAAFP, is KCMS writes that Medicaid expansion will save money for the State of Missouri, help keep people healthy and working, and help keep rural hospitals open, he writes. Kansas City Star, February 6, 2020
Kansas City Medical Society and Kansas City Medical Society Foundation Testimony in Support of SB252 Kansas Innovative Solutions for Affordable Healthcare Act – January 19, 2020
2019
Letter to Kansas Governor Laura Kelly from KCMS past President Mark Brady, MD, in support of Kansas Medicaid expansion. May 7, 2019
Letter to Kansas legislators from KCMS past President Mark Brady, MD, in support of Kansas Medicaid expansion. May 2019
News Release – Kansas City Medical Society Endorses Medicaid Expansion in Kansas and Missouri May 6, 2019