by admin | Jul 21, 2000 | Health / Medicine
A challenge to Missouri’s health maintenance organizations from one of the men who wants to be Missouri’s next governor…but no specific proposal. Democrat Bob Holden’s latest initiative on healthcare challenges HMO’s to provide better...
by admin | Jul 10, 2000 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
Senator Kit Bond is returning fire in the wake of President Clinton’s criticism of the republican-backed Patients’ Bill of Rights approved by the Senate. Clinton blasted the plan during his speech in Columbia. Bond charges the democratic Norwood-Dingel...
by admin | Jul 7, 2000 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
The nurse practitioner who served as President Clinton’s warm up act in Columbia yesterday says he’s seen too many people suffer and die because their HMO didn’t allow them to have proper treatment. Doug Bouldin of Troy told President Clinton he was...
by admin | Jul 7, 2000 | Politics / Govt
A rhetorical remark or a political point? Missouri Senators are responding to a phrase President Clinton used often in his Columbia speech…that he was “one vote away” from passing HMO legislation on Capitol Hill. It was a point he made four times,...
by admin | Jul 6, 2000 | Health / Medicine, Politics / Govt
President Clinton used a visit to Columbia today to congratulate Missouri for its 1997 Patients Bill of Rights. Speaking at the University of Missouri campus, the President complained about the defeat of a federal HMO bill that he backs. He emphasized how close...