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Medicaid Reform Commission member Margaret Donnelly asks when the commission will make decisions.

October 26, 2005
By: Kelly Snyder
State Capital Bureau

One Missouri lawmaker asked when the Medicaid Reform Commission would begin discussion on reform reccomendations.

Kelly Snyder tells us what took place at the commission meeting.

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Members of the commission spent the day writing down reform ideas on post it notes and reading them aloud.

Commission member Margaret Donnelly questioned when the brainstorming would end and the decision making would begin.

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Contents: We have forty plus ideas here and some are connected and some are redundant but clearly not all of these are going to be in the report. When do we get to the point where we decide after we've had some reflected discussion on it that something's going in.

Commission chairmen Charlie Shields says the commission will have recommendations ready for the governor by January first.

From the State Capitol, I'm Kelly Snyder.