Budget Busting Inmate Health Costs Hit County Jails
Haskell County Sheriff Larry Phoenix warns rising inmate health care expenses threaten small counties budgets. Overruns of about $10,000 on an $80,000 jail budget arise largely from medical care for inmates and associated transport and staffing costs. The county jail runs over capacity with 8 beds but 10 to 12 inmates. Local officials consider state action and cost-cutting measures including discount drug policies, insurance, wage garnishment, and potential legislative remedies.
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Haskell
Larry Phoenix
Phoenix
Scott County
Glenn Anderson
Kansas Association of Counties
Randall Allen
KAC
Winter break child care options expand in Garden City
Garden City YMCA offers a holiday camp from Dec 19 to Jan 2 with hours 6 15 a m to 6 15 p m and field trips open to all. SAYAC expands after school hours to 1 p m to 5 30 p m with crafts games and holiday activities. Recreation Commission runs open gym 1 to 9 p m weekdays and a PlayStation 2 tournament on Dec 27 28. Holcomb Recreation Center closes Dec 22 and reopens Jan 2.
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Chad Knight
YMCA
Center St
Salvation Army Youth Activity Center
N. Eighth St
SAYAC
Kristie Goff
Goff
Garden City Recreation Commission
Donna Gerstner
Recreation Commission
Community Center
Gerstner
Holcomb Recreation Center
Kansas Health Policy Finance Authority Formed to Cut Health Costs
A new Kansas agency born from last session's battles between Republicans and Gov. Kathleen Sebelius aims to curb state health care program spending and promote a healthier public. The nine member board, appointed by legislators and the governor, begins operations this fall as the state undergoes a major government overhaul. By next year organizers expect the authority to intensify cost control efforts.
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Kathleen Sebelius
Kansas Health Policy Finance Authority
Kansas health care in focus across state series
Harris News Service and Harris Kansas papers report on the Kansas health scene. Cost and insurance top concerns as rural hospitals struggle with ratios while small towns gain access via new technology and expansions.
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Harris News Service
Harris’ Kansas
the Telegram
Kansas
Lawmakers seek prevention to curb state health costs
Kansas legislators push wellness and prevention to trim medical expenses. Sen. Jim Barnett, an Emporia physician, authored a law to expand healthy school meals and activity. Sen. Janis Lee backs Gov Sebelius’s Healthy Kansas initiative. Proposals cover teen smoking prevention, disease management, and helping counties promote healthier living to reduce chronic illness costs.
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Kansas
Jim Barnett
Emporia
Barnett
Janis Lee
Kensington
Kathleen Sebelius
Healthy
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Lee
Melvin Neufeld
R Ingalls
Neufeld
US beef trade with Japan may resume in days
Agriculture Secretary Mike Johanns told a Billings convention that the United States could ship its first beef load to Japan in days, signaling progress toward restoring the key market after the 2003 mad cow case. Japan's safety panel declared U.S. beef safe, nudging toward a partial lift of the ban.
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Japan
Billings
Mont
Mike Johanns
U.S
Johanns
Farmers and Ranch
Ers
Food Safety Commission
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