Maynard Oliverius, CEO, Stormont-Vail HealthCare
"The system we have in this country is a failure because people do not have equal access to care."

→ Watch video
Sandy Praeger, Kansas Insurance Commissioner
"If we’re going to get our arms around the cost, I think we have to get everyone in the market."

→ Watch video
Derek Schmidt, Kansas Attorney General
"Congress may not exercise a power that it does not have … and that’s what we’re fighting about in terms of the individual mandate."

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Matt All, General Counsel and Vice President, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Kansas
"The problems of health care really are the problems of insurance."

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Suzanne Schrandt, Senior Analyst, Kansas Health Institute
"Polls tell us that people really do not understand what’s in the law."

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Jay Angoff, Acting Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
"When people understand what’s in the act, they like it."

→ Watch video

KHI Health Reform Briefs

→ Brief 1: The Impact of Health Reform on Health Insurance Coverage in Kansas

→ Brief 2: The Impact of Health Reform on Insurance Benefits and Mandates in Kansas

→ Brief 3: A Health Insurance Exchange in Kansas? Decisions and Deadlines Ahead for State Leaders

→ Brief 4: Affordable Care Act's Expansion of Medicaid Expected to Boost Kansas Enrollment

→ Brief 5: Medicare Changes Include Care Coordination and Prescription Drug Costs

→ Brief 6: What the Affordable Care Act Could Mean for Kansas Employers and Health Insurance

→ Resource document: Terms and definitions

Health Reform and the Supreme Court

Anticipating the Supreme Court's ruling

→ GOP promises smaller-scale health care agenda if court strikes down law
→ Some health system changes will stay, no matter how Supreme Court rules
→ Obama administration finds 3.1M young adults gained coverage under law
→ What's at stake for Medicare beneficiaries in health reform ruling
→ What's at stake for women if health law overturned
→ Washburn law professor holding to prediction that health reform law will be upheld
→ Even without the individual mandate, health law would still affect millions

The Great Health Reform Debate: Kansas experts weigh in
"The system we have in this country is a failure because people do not have equal access to care," said retired Stormont-Vail HealthCare CEO Maynard Oliverius. He is one of six Kansas experts who weigh in on the health reform debate ahead of the Supreme Court's ruling on the law.
→ Watch the six video shorts here.

Oral arguments before the Supreme Court

Day 1 — Anti-Injunction Act
→ Guide to what happened at the Supreme Court
Day 2 — Individual Mandate
→ Kansas AG Schmidt encouraged by justices' skepticism of health reform law
→ Justices grill Obama administration on health law
→ National media round-up
Day 3 — Medicaid Expansion and Severability
→ Vigorous severability, Medicaid questions

Preview to the Supreme Court oral arguments

→ Schmidt’s pledge to join ACA challenge bolstered candidacy
→ Full interview: Derek Schmidt on the legal challenge of the health reform law
→ The Health Law and the Supreme Court: A primer for the upcoming oral arguments
→ Video explainer: The health care reform challenge before the Supreme Court


→ More information on the Health Reform law