By Elana Gordon
OVERLAND PARK, Ks. – A final forum has been scheduled for the Kansas City region over Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's plan to remake the state Medicaid program.
Lieutenant Governor Jeff Colyer is leading the process.
"We're looking at ways we can provide better quality of care. As a doctor, that's most important to me," says Colyer. "Second, we're going to have to deal with our budget deficit, and we're all going to have to make really hard decisions."
Administration officials have said they're looking trim between $200 and $400 million from the program by next summer.
Medicaid covers more than 300,000 low-income and disabled Kansans and costs the state a billion-plus dollars to run.
Colyer has already convened three forums in other parts of the state this summer. The additional forum will be on August 17 at the Overland Park Convention Center.
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