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Heartland Healthcare for All
Website: http://healthcareforall.kumc.edu/

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Sharon Lee
913-722-3100
slee2@kumc.edu

Dr. Sharon Lee is the Director of Family Health Care in Kansas City, Kansas. She earned her M.D. from the University of Kansas in 1982. After completing her residency in Family Medicine at the University of Missouri, Truman Medical Center, Dr. Lee founded Family Health Care and other initiatives in Kansas City to serve the poor. There she currently provides not only general Family Medicine care to her community, but has also specialized in HIV medicine and provides care for over 500 individuals with HIV disease. In 1993, Dr. Lee returned to the University of Kansas and is now an Associate Clinical Professor. Dr. Lee speaks nationally on topics including women’s health, substance abuse, HIV disease, medical homes and medical care for the poor. She has received several awards for her clinical and humanitarian work.

June 23, 2008

Single payer system is path to universal care
By Bill Roy | Topeka Capital-Journal
[P]ressure is building. Some day shifting public opinion and looming personal, business, state and federal bankruptcies will make elected officials consider a single payer-universal care system, which, in one form or another, has been adopted by every other industrial democracy, many of which have healthier populations that live longer. All spend substantially less.

February 15, 2008

State plan could work in Kansas
IRA STAMM | Letters to the Editor | The Capital-Journal (Kansas)
The plan is a single-payer plan and involves the state becoming the insurance company for all Kansans. It is a given that many Kansans, including myself, have reservations about turning something as important as health care over to the government. At the same time, government protects our citizens and fights our wars. It builds our highways and provides subsidies to farmers to ensure a steady supply of food. Why should health care be singled out as the one area where government shouldn’t be a partner?