Kansas to let Farm Bureau health coverage avoid ACA rules
(WorldNews Health)

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas will allow its state Farm Bureau to offer health care coverage that doesn`t satisfy the Affordable Care Act after Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Friday declined to block a Republican-backed effort to circumvent former President Barack Obama`s signature health care law. Kelly allowed an insurance bill to become law without her signature, and it includes provisions that will exempt the bureau from state insurance regulations in the health care coverage it offers to its members. Kelly, in a statement, said that while she has `serious reservations` about the measure, she will allow it to become law `as a demonstration of my genuine commitment to compromise.` Kansas...