SD Zaniya Project Online

The Zaniya Project, South Dakota's health care reform (reform? really? we can hope!) task force, has its own website: zaniya.sd.gov. For those of you interested in seeing the state do something to make health care more affordable (and, given annual per capita health care expenses of $5,560, that should be all of us), keep an eye on that website. The state is posting agendae and minutes of the monthly meetings (next one is June 14, Kings Inn, Pierre) as well as copies of the presentations given at each meeting. You can also find contact information for all 52 task force members (playing with a full deck? again, let's hope so).

The task force's final report is due September 30, and their findings and recommendations will surely make for some long days (and possibly significant investments of public dollars) in the 2008 legislative session. We should all thus keep an eye on the task force's progress and keep the conversation active outside the thickly insulated walls of government.