With a visionary expansion to the existing system it could and should be. A…
First off, Missouri should be commended for not making cuts to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, (SCHIP) despite a decline in state revenue. While fourteen states across the country have tightened eligibility requirements or decreased covered services, thus far,…
I am leaving the Metro East for another part of the country. Some brief political exit comments follow.
I have lived in this area, close to St Louis but part of Illinois (thank god) for 11 years, due to my work in…
In response to the article Insurance vs. Ideology, I would like to point out a few things. Take a look at what government involvement in our healthcare system has done, the endless regulation and paperwork have caused prices to skyrocket…
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Bank[er]s have been demonized as greedy bastards that took advantage of deregulation and unbridled capitalism. Automakers are scrambling to keep their heads attached (to no avail). The medical industry is at the center of a collision course between high costs… |
Having to file for disability is a monumental thing to do in a person’s life. On July of 2006 I had to do just that. I had been in the workforce for over twenty-five years and I had health care.. Being diagnosed with…
Before anyone so sacrosanct that writes in and admonishes the President over his off-hand remark about the Special Olympics let me put this into some prospective. As the mother of a child (now deceased) that was developmentally disabled (w/Prader-Willi Syndrome)…
Missouri State Representative Allen Icet needs to take a lesson from Senator Kit Bond about bringing federal tax money home to Missouri. By April 15, we Missourians will have sent our federal taxes to Washington, and our elected officials should…
I just read that the Missouri Legislature’s Republican leadership is turning down over $150 million in federal subsidies, so that it can give Missouri taxpayer a slightly larger tax refund, this year. This doesn’t sound too crazy, until you find…
Now that the House and Senate have approved the stimulus plan, it is time for our own state representatives and senators to put aside partisan politics, like they said they would, and do what is best or all of us.…
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