"The people of Missouri pay quite a bit for health care given to state workers, so its a burden on the taxpayer," said Rep. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, a doctor and committee chair of the Healthcare Transformation Committee. "Anything to have taxpayers further subsidize subsets of businesses might overburden them."
Two Jetton clients, Representative Brian Nieves of Washington and Representative Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph say they just don't know enough about the assault case to decide whether to keep Jetton as their consultant.
Jetton had a recent divorce and runs a political consulting business in Jefferson City with several high profile clients including Majority Floor Leader Steven Tilley and Majority Whip Brian Nieves. Tilley and Rep. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, two of the legislators that have hired Jetton's firm, declined comment and said they were not making a decision whether to keep Jetton on. Jetton was a representative from 2001-09.
"I would be in favor of having the state make decisions on health care and not the federal government," said Rep. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, a doctor and committee chair of the Healthcare Transformation Committee.
"I'm concerned about personal health information floating around in cyber space. That's never safe," said Rob Schaaf, a primary care physician and Republican state representative from St. Joseph.
Rep. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, said the state shouldn't spend money on covering people through what he called a welfare system. Instead, the state should spend that money on people who are precluded by insurance companies from purchasing insurance, said Schaaf, a practicing family physician.
"Both representatives (Doug Ervin and Rob Schaaf) had been talking about a paramount interest was covering the uninsurables," Dempsey said. "Yet when they designed a bill that covered the uninsurables, when an unrelated subject, the transparency part, was amended, they were no longer supportive of a bill that provided coverage for the uninsurables. So really what is their primary concern? Is it uninsurables or is it strong transparency language?"
The plan before the Senate this year is the so-called son of last year's Insure Missouri, which would have given insurance to 200,000 people. That bill died in the House last session when Healthcare Transformation Committee Chair Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, stalled action on the bill. Schaaf is no fan of this year's legislation either.
Last year's bill died at the end of session when Rep. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, the chairman of the House Healthcare Transformation Committee refused to bring the bill to the floor without reforming hospital expansion provisions.
Rep. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, is sponsoring a bill that would expand the scholarship fund to veterans who meet only their university's requirements for Missouri residency.
Rep. Rob Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, is sponsoring a bill that would expand the scholarship fund to veterans who meet only their university's requirements for Missouri residency.
Rep. Rob Schaaf, a family medical doctor in St. Joseph, has proposed a bill that would adopt the recommendations of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.
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