Last November, Kansans went to the polls in record numbers and helped elect President Trump to make America, and Kansas, great again. A key pillar of his campaign was a promise to “Make America Healthy Again,” with a focus on issues like transparency in health care and lowering costs for families.
But here in Kansas, there are some lawmakers flirting with a policy in direct opposition to President Trump’s efforts. They want to expand an opaque, anti-transparent, anti-free market policy called the 340B program. This program is good for big hospital system CEOs, woke politicians, and out-of-state pharmacies, but terrible for families, rural hospitals, and Kansans who care about good government.
The 340B program was created in 1992 with a simple goal: help struggling hospitals stretch scarc