MASCA Defends Free Enterprise in Administrative Rules Process
Small businesses needs a voice in the rule making process to ensure low cost, high quality health care in Missouri By: David M Jackson Attention to detail often becomes more central to success when dealing with an issue or idea, rather than a tangible product or service. Historic American Author Louis L’Amour said “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning.” This can be applied to politics in the sense that many corporations, small businesses, and...
Read MoreHow Do You Store Your Medical Records?
By David Jackson: The two physicians in the General Assembly, Sen. Rob Schaaf (R-St. Joseph) and Rep. Keith Frederick (R-Rolla), are teaming up on an effort to ensure providers can be fairly reimbursed for the cost and labor used to retrieve medical records. The House Health Care Policy Committee heard HB 580 this week, which allows providers to charge a fee for medical records that are stored at an off-site location. Amendments are being drafted to cap the fee at $30 and increase other fees for copying and...
Read MoreLegislative Report for the Week of: February 25, 2011
Increasing ASC awareness on MASCA Day: We had twelve participants from MASCA travel to the Capitol on Tuesday for our annual lobby day, which turned out to be a great success. Members were introduced by Senate Pro-Tem Rob Mayer (R-Dexter) and were brought into the House chamber by Rep. Todd Richardson (R-Poplar Bluff). We were able to visit the offices of everyone’s home legislators and distributed information to health care committees on the economic impact of ASCs in Missouri. We capped off the lobbying...
Read MoreLINK – New Ways to Calculate the Risks of Surgery
Facing abdominal surgery for colon and uterine cancer, Kathleen Rivard listened last Thursday as Stuart Bussell, her surgeon at Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, laid out the odds: a 1% risk of death, an 18% risk of a complication like an infection at the surgical incision site, and an 8% chance of a more serious complication like cardiac arrest. (FROM: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703422904575039110166900210.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth ) It wasn’t just an educated guess: Dr....
Read More“We Don’t Need No Stinking Balanced Budget!”
Carl Bearden You may recognize the quote from which the title of this blog was irreverently taken. Most people would incorrectly identify the quote from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (actually used in “Blazing Saddles”), just as the federal government and many states incorrectly believe they don’t need a balanced budget. This is especially true in the bad times when many haughtily believe government spending is the answer to fiscal woes. California is perhaps the poster child for this type of...
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