The Concerned Active and Aware Students at Kansas University held a Health Policy Awareness Campaign Monday and Tuesday to help other students navigate the new health care bill.
 
Cara Smith, one of the coordinators of the organization, said “We were just thinking about how there’s all this news about health care and reform in the media now, but neither of us really knew what any of it meant. And I got the impression from other people I talked to that they didn’t really know either.”
 
Smith and co-coordinator Stephanie Atwood hoped to present the information about the bill in an unbiased and nonpartisan manner. Atwood said, “We want students to be well-informed, to have opinions about the issue and then do something about their opinions to shape how Kansas senators vote on the bill.
 
Smith said the group would write facts on campus and hand out fliers with clearly laid-out information about the health care debate. She said their only goal was to promote awareness.
 
“We’re also giving out information on how to contact senators, so if students do feel they’re opposed or for the bill they can contact their senator and let them know what their opinions are, and hopefully they can decide what they want to do about it,” she said.


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