White House Author

Alice Kitchen is the Volunteer Co-Chair of the Affordable Care Public Education Committee for the Metropolitan Kansas City MO/KS) area. Kitchen coordinated (with Sarah Starnes) over 35 presentations on the Affordable Care Act reaching from 10 to 90 individuals in each setting. These ACA education sessions were targeted to seniors, women's groups, churches, trade groups, small businesses, as well as health professionals. She has connected local health care advocacy groups to public library system, television, radio, and news organizations resulting in coverage to readers and viewers in the metro market. Kitchen is active in the passage of federal level COBRA, HIPPA, and at the state level-Missouri SB 190, HB 595, HB 623 and Kansas SB on health insurance coverage for midlife women.