LOOKING FOR FACTS IN THE HEALTH CARE DEBATE?

Confused and looking to cut through some of the noise surrounding the
federal health care reform debate?

The Kaiser Family Foundation**, a non-profit and non-partisan research organization that focuses on providing facts and analyses relating to health policy, has produced a detailed side-by-side comparison of the current federal health care proposals.

You can print out a side-by-side comparison of all proposals and topics, or you can select comparisons on just the topics (such as "employer
requirements" or "premium subsidies to employers") and committees/authors in which you are interested at http://www.kff.org/healthreform/sidebyside.cfm.

You can also find a summarized side-by-side comparison of the provisions
approved by the three House committees and one Senate committee at
http://www.kff.org/healthreform/upload/healthreform_tri_full.pdf. PLEASE
NOTE that one Senate committee has not yet completed its work, and neither the full House nor Senate is scheduled to debate or vote on any health care proposal until at least the fall!

Questions? Contact Ashley Sherard, V.P. of Legislative Affairs,
913-888-1414 or at asherard@lenexa.org.

ACTION ALERT:
U.S. HOUSE CLOSE TO VOTING ON HEALTH CARE BILL
Posted July 20, 2009

The U.S. House of Representatives is quickly moving forward with a health care reform proposal that could be voted on very soon. The proposed legislation contains sweeping changes to the nation’s health care policies, changes that will impact YOUR business and YOUR employees including new mandates and possibly new taxes.

Most health insurance in the U.S. is provided through an employer so
businesses clearly support the need to control spiraling health care costs, but the nation’s business community has expressed serious concerns with the House’s proposed bill. For a briefing on key provisions of the bill and how they may impact you, click here.

With so much at stake on this important issue and the speed at which it is being pushed, U.S. Representative Dennis Moore needs to hear from his constituents SOON before he casts his vote on this proposed legislation! To contact his office and let him know how the House proposal would impact your business, you may call his Washington D.C. office at (202) 225-2865 or email him at http://moore.house.gov/. Take a moment and do it today!

LEGISLATIVE SESSION CONCLUDES
The 2009 state legislative session officially concluded last week in Topeka,
with legislators now returning to their home districts until next January!

The Lenexa Chamber of Commerce was there every step of the way, working to
share the needs and concerns of area businesses with our elected leaders.
For a quick overview of how issues of particular importance to the business
community ultimately fared in the legislative process -- what was signed
into law and what wasn't -- click here.