KanCare Update - The Local Show

In January, Kansas became the first state in the nation to entirely privatize its Medicaid program. Nearly 380,000 Medicaid recipients were required to sign up with one of three private insurance companies in the initiative Governor Sam Brownback insisted would save the state more than $1 billion in just the first five years. Within the first few days of KanCare's launch, alarm bells were sounding about what privatization would mean for low income and disabled Kansans. More than 300,000 Kansans are covered by KanCare and half of them are children, but it is still very hard for adults to get coverage since you must be disabled, elderly with no assets or make less than $5600 a year. Nine months into the new system, KCPT special correspondent Sam Zeff takes a closer look.

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Anything is better than the prior medicaid provider/systems. Had several adult clients not complying with medical/psychological treatment instead going to the ER weekly as that was easier. Their medicaid case managers said there was really nothing they could do to help. Have had numerous child clients receiving multiple ineffective services instead of providing them with appropriate ones because of the one size fits all mentality. If it's broke, it needs to be fixed and medicaid is broke.