Chad Frey

Chad Frey

A time for giving

“For everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven ….” Some recognize this phrase from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Bible and others know it from the popular 1960s song by the Byrds.November is a season of Thanksgiving.

Red tape and income limits have booted 82,000 Kansans off Medicaid since May. How can they get back on?

Robyn Adams struggled to support her husband and teenage daughter on $16,000 a year during the pandemic.Then the pandemic ended and her family lost its Medicaid coverage.“We went into panic,” she said.The family relied on a temporary expansion of coverage authorized by the federal government during the pandemic to weather the bills that came with her rheumatoid arthritis, her husband’s heart condition and her daughter’s Type 1 diabetes.Suddenly, the family faced a cost of prescription drugs that runs thousands of dollars a month.