By KHI NEWS SERVICE

LAWRENCE — The Affordable Care Act will be the focus of this year’s Kansas Economic Policy Conference at the University of Kansas.

The conference, titled “The Affordable Care Act in Kansas: Impacts on People, Business and Providers,” begins at 8 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Kansas Union and is scheduled to adjourn at 2:15 p.m.

The morning keynote speakers are Arthur Daemmrich, associate professor of history and philosophy of medicine at the KU School of Medicine, and Scott Brunner, senior analyst and strategy team leader at the Kansas Health Institute, which is a nonpartisan policy and research organization that also houses the editorially independent KHI News Service.

Daemmrich will speak on the “U.S. Health System in an International Context” and Brunner will speak on “The State of Health Care and Health Insurance in Kansas.”

The luncheon keynote will feature Andy Allison, former director of Arkansas Medicaid; Rep. Dave Crum, Kansas House assistant majority leader; and Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger.

Conference registration is $55. For more information, see a full agenda and online registration page.

For Kansans who can’t make the trip to Lawrence, the conference will be broadcast live to a satellite location in Ulysses.