Democrat Kansas governor Laura Kelly vetoes freeze on Medicaid contracts, calling it 'corruption' from closed-door deals

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Another small poor rural state that should be liberal taken over by the republicans, like West Virginia

Kansas governor vetoes freeze on Medicaid contracts, calling it 'corruption' from closed-door deals

Gov. Laura Kelly vetoed a bill to freeze privatized Medicaid managed care organization contracts ahead of the November election against Derek Schmidt.

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Kansas has three MCOs: Aetna, Sunflower Health Plan and United Healthcare.

The provision earned fiery allegations of corruption from a Democratic lawmaker when they were advanced earlier this year.

Rep. John Carmichael, D-Wichita, said he "has reason to believe that the federal authorities are already aware of the proposed legislation introduced today" based on "strong circumstantial evidence."

He invoked a 2014 scandal where associates of then Gov. Sam Brownback were probed by the FBI in connection with the privatization of the state's Medicaid program and called the latest proposal "pay-to-pay politics."

Wut? Pay-to-play somehow not good enough?