Lawmakers working on plan to bring universal health coverage to Kansas

A state board is already working on proposals to make sure fewer Kansans go without insurance coverage next year.

The Kansas Health Policy Authority's board had a public session last week. It’s their first step toward a November 1 report that will give its recommendations to legislators. A consultant showed them five potential models for universal health care in Kansas.

In January, Governor Kathleen Sebelius asked lawmakers to make a plan to bring universal health coverage to Kansas.

More than 300,000 Kansans don't have health insurance.


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Oct. 1, 2007 at 1:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)parkay (anonymous)

The Kansas abortion industry should soon be reeling from citizen assaults in the form of the Sedgwick County petition completed and filed to convene a grand jury to investigate crimes of 2003-2007 in George Tiller’s abortion mill, the Kansas petition to the Board of Healing Arts to investigate crimes of 2003-2007 in Tiller’s abortion mill, and the Johnson County petition to convene a grand jury to investigate crimes in Planned Parenthood’s Overland Park abortion mill. At the same time, we eagerly expect legislative action from the testimony and evidence submitted in September to the joint legislative committee on abortion mill crimes, particularly if we can get a new Kansas House Speaker with a spine in January. Waiting in the wings should be a huge insurance fraud investigation, since medical insurance companies have paid out millions to Kansas abortion mills, often, as we now clearly know, based on fraudulent claims and falsified medical records. We cannot rely on the biased pro-abortion Kansas Insurance Commissioner to take any action against the crime-ridden Kansas abortion industry, however. Since all of you who pay medical insurance premiums bear the cost of fraudulent abortions, particularly those claimed to be “necessary” in order to protect the mother’s vital interest in music concerts, you may need to take action on your own behalf there.

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