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KamaAina

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Thu Jun 16, 2016, 06:55 PM Jun 2016

Healthcare company announces plans to leave Kansas, eviscerates Gov. Sam Brownback in open letter

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/6/15/1539000/-Healthcare-company-announces-plans-to-leave-Kansas-eviscerates-Gov-Sam-Brownback-in-open-letter?detail=facebook

Jeff Blackwood, the CEO of Pathfinder Health innovations, released a public letter stating their intentions to move the company out of the state of Kansas. Mr. Blackwood pulled no punches in his message to Governor Brownback and Kansas conservatives:

“I can’t, in good conscience, continue to give our tax money to a government that actively works against the needs of its citizens; a state that is systematically targeting the citizens in most need, denying them critical care and reducing their cost of life as if they’re simply a tax burden that should be ignored.” – Jeff Blackwood, CEO of Pathfinder Health Innovations

Wow! In the full text of the letter, Mr. Blackwood said they re-evaluated staying in Kansas when they outgrew their current space. After consideration, they just can’t stay:...

More importantly, there’s a motivation of conscience that factors into it, too. It’s not so much that I’m moving the company to Missouri as I’m moving it away from Kansas.



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Healthcare company announces plans to leave Kansas, eviscerates Gov. Sam Brownback in open letter (Original Post) KamaAina Jun 2016 OP
Here's the full letter for those who might not have seen it progree Jun 2016 #1
mark to return to tomorrow rurallib Jun 2016 #2
K & R BootinUp Jun 2016 #3
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