As a resident of Kansas, you, your family, and your employees have access to a FREE Prescription Discount Drug Card program.

A personal milestone; the death of main street, one local zoning law at a time; more on the myth of increasing poverty; and comments on the health care problem.

Now is the time for the Kansas Legislature to start paying our home-grown businesses for serving as their sales tax collectors.

In the past year, the 15-member Kansas Health Policy Authority spent an amazing amount of time, money, and effort in producing the twenty-one "options" or "recommendations" to be presented to Kansas legislators on November 1.  If there is an iota of free-market thinking among the nine voting members, it did not come out in their meetings.

Dr. Jim Hamilton, a Topeka physician and a member of the Health Committee of the Topeka Independent
Business Association, has sent this letter to the editor of the Topeka Capital-Journal.  We are grateful to Dr. Hamilton for his permission to reprint the letter here.

Health Care Update 9.6.07

CLARIFICATION TO LAST WEEK'S ISSUE
from Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger

Update on KHPA Health Survey

An alternative approach to health care reform.

Corporate income tax credits in Kansas

Health spending trends

Small business cornucopia in New England

Beverly Gossage is a Kansas resident and health insurance broker. She is undoubtedly the top expert on Health Savings Account arrangements in Kansas. She was the key player in the insurance "non-connector" established in Missouri, signed into law a couple of weeks ago. This is her article about that success. Her design will be closely studied in Kansas and in many other states.