(Updated to include Republican response as well as comments from advocacy group and political scientist)
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly is stepping up pressure on the Republican-led Legislature to expand Medicaid, a measure that she's tried without success to pass throughout her tenure as governor.
Appearing outside of William Newton Hospital in Winfield on Wednesday, Kelly launched her Healthy Workers, Healthy Economy tour to urge Kansans statewide to support expanding Medicaid.
It is the governor’s largest effort of this kind to support Medicaid expansion, although she's advocated for the proposal every year she's been governor.
She . . .
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