Treating the poor as outcasts is what’s morally reprehensible

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October 14, 2015 - 12:00 AM

By default of living in Kansas, every resident is connected to the actions of its leaders — for good or ill.
By now, most Kansans have learned to accept that Gov. Sam Brownback and his faithful have no interest in expanding Medicaid, the federal program that helps the poor and disabled.
Attempts by hospital administrators and others in health care related fields to convince legislators of the expansion’s economic benefits have fallen on deaf ears.
For the naive, including this editor, Brownback’s reasoning was thought to be primarily political. Expanding…

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