Subject: Kansas Health Policy Authority

• Kansas snubs out another smoking bill

  Flickr: Star5112I don't mean for this to be "let's harp on Kansas" day but sometimes it's too easy. Yesterday, a committee in the Kansas House killed a statewide smoking ban. The Associated Press is reporting that the "House Health and Human Services Committee took less than five minutes Wednesday to vote to table the issue until it receives more information." There's zero chance the bill will get reconsidered this session. This is the third fourth statewide smoking ban bill to not pass in Kansa

  March 19, 2009

• As Kathleen Sebelius leaves to help Barack Obama reform health care in Washington, here’s a checkup on what happened in Kansas

  April 9, 2009

• Letters from the week of April 16

  April 16, 2009

• Kansas health-care reform official resigns

  Late Friday afternoon, the Kansas Health Policy Authority confirmed that its executive director, Marcia Nielsen, would soon be leaving the agency that's responsible for spending all of the state's health-care dollars and advising lawmakers on health-care policy (presumably so they can make good decisions about how to reform it). Nielsen was a key figure in former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' efforts to try to fix health care in Kansas. Marcia NielsenNielsen will take a job as Vice Chancellor of Publi

  May 11, 2009