Excerpt of Interview with Jim Denning, April 13, 2023, “How Medicaid Expansion Died in the Senate.”

Jim Denning served in the Kansas Senate as Majority Leader for four years during most of the time Medicaid Expansion was under discussion. Denning didn’t like the way the bills were constructed, so he developed a Republican alternative that he thought would be a model for the country. His interview details how he kept the Democratic alternative from passing, but his own bill became caught up in abortion politics and failed to pass. The full interview is in Statehouse Conversations.