Opinion
China’s “Two Sessions”
Starting Monday of this week, the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) isl meeting in Beijing.
HCTalk March 8
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When time is money, “Dynamic Pricing” makes everything cheaper
Wendy’s ran into a wall of popular resistance with the mid-February release of its “earnings call” transcript for the fourth quarter of 2023.
Plains Folk: The Kansas Girl
Sure enough, on the first day of Women’s History Month (March), I came across this ballad from 1889: “The Kansas Girl.”A sunflower maid from an upland farmBlithsome and fanciful, plump of armIn five stanzas of five lines each, the poet pretty well captures the young man’s fancy of the Kansas girl’s virtues.
Kansans must be as relentless in preserving voting rights as extremists are at attacking them
Many historians liken the current societal tumult in the nation to what was happening across the country in the 1850s.Sectional tensions tore at the nation’s fabric.
Farm kid privilege
I have a friend that lives in a big city who recently shared a story about how local students visiting a nature preserve were given shovels and allowed to dig holes.
Swipe Fees are slashing small businesses. But someone is fighting back
Drive down any Main Street in Kansas, and you’ll see evidence that the entrepreneurial spirit is alive and well.
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Letter to the editor: Good sense and KanCare expansion do not mesh
I’ve been right, and KanCare expansion advocates are wrong.As Governor Kelly and Kansas Democrats continue to push KanCare Expansion for able bodied working Kansans, it would be nice if they’d use some good sense.But good sense and KanCare expansion don’t mesh.Instead, the experience in medicaid expansion states illustrates that truly vulnerable disabled Kansans will lose KanCare funding first.Forty states have expanded Medicaid, and, as research shows, they have almost triple the number of people they expected.Compared with initial estimates of only 6.5 million people, expansion states instead have nearly 19 million new recipients.That number is only growing, with more able-bodied adults signing on to the government dole from coast to coast.The per person cost to taxpayers is at least 64% higher than predicted.At the heart of Medicaid expansion is a perverse incentive.This has been clearly illustrated in Indiana, where they now have a $1 billion shortfall due to Medicaid Expansion.The federal government has agreed to pay 90% of its costs, yet for traditional KanCare/Medicaid recipients, it pays a little under 65%.For the people who run Indiana’s budget, their “logical solution” for closing the budget shortfall was to cut funding for people who only bring in 65 cents on the dollar, instead of those who bring in 90 cents.It doesn’t matter that the 90-cent group includes those who are able-bodied and could receive health insurance elsewhere.