Mean Kansas law in the making: Pay your medical bills in 90 days or …

Here’s an unbelievably cold, cruel bit of attempted lawmaking in Topeka.

House Bill 2285 essentially says this: Uninsured Kansans who get treated at a hospital or doctor’s office have 90 days to pay their bill. If they haven’t settled up within 90 days, the provider can turn their bill over to the state, which can take the money out of the delinquent person’s tax refund.

Thanks, Rep. Brenda Landwehr, Republican of Wichita. Life is already scary enough for uninsured Kansans. Many of them may even be newly uninsured, having recently lost their jobs. Seems to me the woman who is chair of a committee called Health and Human Services ought to be working to figure out a way to give humans a break, not make sure hospitals collect.