In a recent Kansas News Service story on Sen. Roger Marshall’s appearance at a town hall meeting in Oakley, Kansas, (pop. 1,982), a board member with the local nursing home said he’d hoped to hear about issues “… affecting nursing homes right now. Rural hospitals are hurting but all people wanted to do was scream at the senator.”
The board member’s concerns are valid and deeply troubling.
Cuts in Medicaid spending will be devastating. Medicaid is the backbone of long-term care in Kansas; 57 percent of the state’s nursing home residents rely on…
