Here’s what you should know.
1. The House voted 81-44. Legislators needed 84 votes to override the governor’s veto.
2. A Medicaid expansion measure passed both chambers with bipartisan support earlier in 2017.
3. The expansion would have covered an additional 150,000 Kansas residents through KanCare, the state’s private Medicaid program.
4. State conservatives opposed the measure citing financial restraints. Kansas will face budgetary shortfalls exceeding $1 billion through June 2019. Not all conservatives were against the proposal.
5. State lawmakers pledged to continue efforts to pass expansion with Sen. John Dall, R-Garden City, saying to the Star, “the expansion effort will come back next year, and the year after.”
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