KHCC participated in the Hoops for Hope Breast Cancer Benefit in Ashland. The WEPAC Alliance planned and hosted the Benefit. KHCC facilitated a community meeting with the WEPAC Alliance and area residents to discuss health reform and local health care issues.
KHCC Executive Director Corrie Edwards participated in a town hall meeting on health reform in Wichita. The panel was hosted by the Mid-Kansas Jewish Federation and the Wichita chapter of Hadassah at the University of Kansas School of Medicine.
KHCC hosted a Kansas Stakeholder Dialogue as part of the ongoing Voices for Health Care project.
Join the Community Health Council of Wyandotte County on Thursday, March 18th for a presentation by the Kansas Health Consumer Coalition on health reform efforts at the state and national levels. This presentation will be followed by an informative and interactive advocacy training session!
This fact sheet developed by the REACH Healthcare Foundation says that having health insurance coverage is vital to having good health. Unfortunately, too many children who are eligible for coverage through HealthWave are not enrolled. With rising unemployment and a decrease in the number of employers offering health insurance benefits, Kansas is now experiencing the [...]
KHCC believes that an increase in the state tobacco tax is a preventive measure that will deter some Kansans from beginning a habit that disproportionately impacts the poor.
Kansans need health reform more than ever. The costs of health care have outpaced workers’ wages, jeopardized the survival of businesses, and led more and more people to lose their insurance coverage. As a result, the number of Kansans who delay or forego medical care and die prematurely has increased at a dangerous rate.
KHCC takes a look at the White House health care summit and urges reform.
KHCC urges opposition to Sub for SB 374 because it goes too far. Sub for SB 374 protects health care providers that intentionally hurt patients by keeping evidence of what the provider said or did from being shown to a jury.
Learn more about the proposed tobacco tax increase and how it would benefit the state of Kansas.
KHCC Executive Director says that medical debt should be treated differently than other debt.
