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Mark Alford (r): Quick, look over there!

26 Monday Oct 2026

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[October 26, 2026]

SHOW-ME RESULTS 🇺🇸
Rural Missourians deserve quality healthcare close to home!
Last year, I joined our congressional delegation in urging state leaders to prioritize rural healthcare through the Rural Health Transformation Program.
Now Missouri is putting that $216 million to work — strengthening rural hospitals, expanding emergency and maternal care, and training more professionals. 🏥
I’ll keep fighting so rural communities’ needs stay front and center! 🇺🇸
#ShowMeResults #WorkingForYou

Some of the responses:

Cut 100 million put back 10 and expect to be thanked.

When is he going to start doing anything?

After January third when he packs his backs and whack-a-moles over to pop up in a different grift.

Didn’t you vote for the Big Beautiful Bill Mark?

Yep.

Unfortunately ,more than 200 rural hospitals have closed or converted to models that exclude inpatient care (such as Rural Emergency
The program notes that 50% of the funds will be distributed equally across all 50
states, and the remaining 50% of funds will be distributed in a manner to be
determined by the CMS Administrator based on the concentration of rural healthThe law cuts federal Medicaid and CHIP spending by roughly $800 billion to over $1 trillion. Because roughly one in four rural residents relies on Medicaid—a higher rate than in urban areas—these cuts disproportionately strip coverage and funding from rural communities
Anyone with a calculator on their smartphones understands that this program has no longevity and was designed as a Midterm election fluff
Smoke and Mirrors
Today’s current event that is making national news is Children Mercy Hospital.
The desperation in the parents of young patients was heartbreaking to hear.
Currently its affecting about 400 Children getting cut off from Healthcare through the ACA cuts in the big beautiful bill.
The news reporting states the actual number could be closer to 55,000 Children being denied future Healthcare services.
Many ACA insurance plans are being utilized by are small buisnesses and entrepreneurs who don’t have the benefits of an employee group plan.
Alford likes to talk about what he’s done for rural hospitals, but its all talk ,since many of these cuts are happening in January 2027
Alford has turned his back on Children’s Healthcare.
Mark Alford you can create a new meme with you saying ” I Did This ”
Well actually you accomplished this debacle by your involvement in the Big Beautiful Bill

he will never reply . He will tell you it’s all Bidens fault

SHOW-ME A NEW CONGRESSMAN

don’t to forget gas prices so they can aford to get care and Med.

Alford voted to weaken rural health

It’s going to get worse too, right Mark?

Mark Awful voted to eliminate more healthcare in MO beginning Jan 1, 2027. Republicans timed it so it hit post the elections. That tell you all you need to know about Mark Awful and Republicans

You voted to cut Medicaid and Medicare while also supporting limitations to maternal medicine. 🤦🏼‍♀️

After he voted to take it away. We NEED better!

Did he read the “big beautiful bill”?!

He voted for it.

Midterms Approaching Propaganda and significant self-promotion.

So nice of you to take away rural healthcare and then scrape together crumbs to “strengthen” rural healthcare. The farmers who lose access to healthcare will send you packing.

You’re la[t]e or fake to the rural hospital issue. Cuts in Medicaid by the big beautiful bill you signed have rural hospitals in a bind as now they have people without Medicaid who can’t pay, but still need services. [….]

We cannot forget that this is the same man that voted for A Bill that just kicked thousands of people off insurance at Children’s Mercy Hospital. VOTE MARK ALFORD OUT.

You supported the cuts and was making comments about why. Have a townhall.

What about Children’s Mercy in KC and the devastating cuts you’re responsible for?
Vote Jordan J Herrera and get someone in who has a brain and who cares, and isn’t just doing sound bites.

Alford is and always has been all about himself! Please don’t believe anything he says!

Hey Mark, you already screwed up the Affordable Care Act. I bet you’ll have something in 2 weeks, right?

Too late to hope you do better

Look fool . We know exactly how you voted. Quit your bull shit. You would be much better off just shutting the F up

Where’s Trump’s best Healthcare plan ever you know the one he said he was going to replace ObamaCare with. Another thing that is the problem is Healthcare is one of the highest to be monopolized in the US same as about 99% everything else and the Republicans support the corporate American that does it

It’s too late idiot. You voted for the big ugly bill. Rural healthcare fate is sealed thanks to you! Nothing you can do will bring it back. Quit posting this crap. You should have never voted for the big ugly bill!

Cocky Congressman Mark Alford thinks he’s going to win Missouri District 4. He sent emails asking for money sending ideas for FY 2028.
Yet he never shows his face around the District to hear Constituents concerns and learn from them directly how money can be appropriated.
VoteBlue

You know what would help rural health systems? Not cutting Medicaid and Medicare.

Congressman Mark Alford protects pedophiles and hates you.
He voted for these cuts to rural hospitals and BRAGGED about his vote on the Big Beautiful Fuckup bill.
The arsonist being remorseful does not absolve guilt.
Vote the lying, pedophile sycophant out.

A little late aren’t you

Congressman Mark Alford didn’t i just read a couple weeks ago where two more missouri hospitals shut down OB units?

Yes we did. The new owners of the hospital in Marshall will NOT be offering OB services. Fact!

Have you even addressed the Childrens Mercy hospital issue of being not authorized by several insurers on the ACA?

High Gas Prices, High Groceries, Federal Workers are being Attacked! What Good are you doing?

You voted to cut Medicaid and Medicare while also supporting limitations to maternal medicine. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Just like Trump, create the problem from Big Beautiful Bill, then claim you are doing everything to solve it!

I think we are gonna see results but I don’t think you will like them…better tighten up that resume Mark….unless of course you know that election interference is looming and you are safe.

You voted to cut Medicaid….. stop pretending to care when it’s election time

His platform promoting health is to push hungry kids off SNAP, the working poor off of Medicaid, let the program collapse precipitate the closure of rural healthcare facilities, and remind the poor that they are that way because of bad decisions.
May Alford be consumed by the twenty-first century hellscape he and his like-minded theives architected for the poor.

Hi, Mark—Have you seen how well your president’s oil and gas stocks are doing? Have you seen that he’s enriched himself by $2.4b while in office?
I’m sure the farmers don’t mind taking that $8b bailout when they can rest assured that your president is doing so well for himself.

Honestly, they think we’re stupid. It’s insulting. Doesn’t matter the state, they claim they are fixing something they made worse or they’re taking credit for something they voted against.

So you spend your time in congress destroying basic healthcare access then you don your cape and proclaim yourself the savior of healthcare. My hero!

You are embarrassing

THIS IS A STATE OF EMERGENCY yet nothing!!!! Mosaic doesn’t even have a Pediatric wing. Almost every child in NW & SW children go to Mercy. Yet they’re worried about abortion and transgender. 1% of the population is transgender.

Now do 1 trillion in cuts to Medicare and Medicaid over the next ten years that will crush rural hospitals all over the country. Blatantly lying is what the Trump cult does.

By voting to cut healthcare for millions of people? Raising the cost of health care by voting against ACA subsidies? Voting to strip funding from hospital by Medicaid cuts? That’s Alford fighting for rural healthcare?

After your party DECIMATED it.

You have to be literally one of the absolute clueless and outright dumb individuals to ever come from Missouri politics. Just a complete dolt. I’m a conservative and I think you’re just terrible for this state.

You strengthen rural health care by voting for the big bullshit bill so the rural hospitals close…. Way to go sleepy mark!

You touted for and voted for the big bullshit bill.
Shut up and sit down.

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

To your health

19 Wednesday Nov 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[November 19 2025]
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Productive meeting today with Golden Valley Memorial Healthcare CEO Craig Thompson.
We talked Medicare, their HRSA grant for developing our own physicians, Missouri residency retention, RHTP funds, and closing the loophole hurting Sole Community Hospitals.
Proud to support the providers who keep our rural communities healthy!
[….]

There is much hilarity in the responses:

How did the part of the discussion go when you admitted to the unimaginably inhumane loophole that your MAGA party created by stopping funding to Emergency room patients without proof of nationality on your One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), but left in place the compassionate conservative linchpin legislation called the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) wich REQUIRES them to still take care of them anyway? Did you put together a betting pool on how many months they will have before everyone in Clinton has to go to the city for all their Dr. appointments? Did you pick 11 months?

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Congressman Mark Alford The Problem With Our Healthcare Is “GREEDY For Profit Healthcare Insurance Companies/Executives” ! ! ! They Should Have To Compete With a Public Option Like “Medicare for All” as a Option ! ! ! That Would Make Healthcare Insurance More Affordable ! ! ! Or You Could Extend The ACA Tax Credits for One Year , And Find a Healthcare Solution In The Next 6 Months . . ? 🤔

he knows, he’s working for them, not you.

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So … what actually … have you done to support this facility. Right, nothing.

417,000 Missouri residents are losing their ACA Subsidies. Can they pay the higher premiums?? Will this hospital be open in 3 years. There is also a shortage of healthcare workers and since Trump raised H1B work visa’s to $100K most small hospitals can’t hire foreign health workers !! Face it Republicans are on a vendetta to destroy our healthcare system !

You had since January 2023 to do something about Medicare, why now? You only been in office 35 months and now you are discussing Medicare.. let’s not forget your 53 days off from work on a paid vacation while people in your district are losing farms. So technically you have been in office for 33.5 months..

Idiot.

Go back to Texas if you want your back patted

“OUR OWN PHYSICIANS”? In 8 years, minimum.
AND children going hungry and sick…NOW.

By voting for the big beautiful bill?

Congressman Mark Alford You passed the Big Beautiful (BS) Bill that cut $1.3 TRILLION from Medicaid, when that same GVMH CEO said publicly that 4 OUT OF 5 PATIENTS in that hospital are MEDICAID recipients. Guess what that means? MEDICAID FUNDS THIS HOSPITAL. Read that again: MEDICAID KEEPS THIS HOSPITAL OPERATING.
Explain how the cuts YOU made to Medicaid support this hospital?? You can’t explain it, because your “support” is nothing but another Alford lie. You’ve passed a law that will damage this hospital severely, if it doesn’t shut it down!
How many of those 51,000 people you’ve condemned to death every year going forward, that would NOT DIE except they will now due to your law, the BBB, how many of those people will now die at GVMH?
You’re ignorant beyond belief. Your lack of education is a blinking neon sign in the dark. You are a shining example of why every single candidate for Congress should be required to pass numerous written exams before being allowed on the ballot, Economics being one of those subjects.
You’re unfit to serve. You never were and never will be fit to hold office. The 4th District deserves better. You are a pathological liar. #RESIGN #TRAITOR #UNFITtoServe

Mark Alford (r) [2025 file photo]

Working hard to close more rural hospitals?

This is appalling. What say you about this, Little Marky? Do you approve of your Dear Leader entertaining murderous dictator terrorists in our White House while making billion dollar deals for himself?

Bad combover. Check. Too long red tie. Check. Orange spray tan. Check. Tiny hands. Check. Cluelessness. Check…

You’re gonna let our ACA tax credits expire, aren’t you, you little maggot?

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

Short leash

26 Thursday Jun 2025

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Josh Hawley (r) [2024 file photo].

Yesterday, from the third senator from Virginia:

Josh Hawley @HawleyMO

Talked to @realDonaldTrump, on his way home from NATO, about the Senate Medicaid hospital cuts. He said, Stay with the House!

6:59 PM · Jun 25, 2025

Sycophant.

From 2017, in Missouri:

“Rural Missouri needs Medicaid”

Mark Alford (r) steps on a rake…yet again

14 Wednesday May 2025

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Mark Alford (r) [2023 file photo].

Today:

Congressman Mark Alford
[May 14, 2025]
Look, Missouri is the Show Me State. So we’re going to ask people to show me why you should be receiving taxpayer dollars for Medicaid!
[….]

Some of the responses:

What a moron! You should know there is already a very rigorous application process with proof of income, age and or disability.

Who pays for your healthcare? Right taxpayers do. And yet you sit up there trying to take health insurance away from poor Americans. Shame on you. Why don’t you cough up your insurance. Maybe a few experience firsthand what it’s like to lose your insurance you’ll have a little more empathy.

He *is* compassionate. Just ask him!

If we are not taking care of our fellow citizens then why do we have a government?

Not really the government’s job.

I think you should go study civilizations and governments. You realy think it is not the job of our government to take care of its citizens? So we should disband fire departments, public hospitals, public schools, police departments, department of agriculture. No VA or FHA loans. No big construction projects for roads?

is it the Governments job to subsidize billionaires like Musk and Bezos?

I could of sworn the government was founded for the people by the people

You mean, the government’s job is to promote the general welfare?

Paying for tax cuts for the wealthy on the backs of the poor.

How in the world was this guy voted back into office? All I ever see is negative comments about him, which I agree with.

because ignorant people vote uninformed. That’s why Republicans love the uneducated.

Right wingnuts with money.

Yet we can find money for tax breaks for the rich. Spend money on space ships. And spend trillions on ” defense ” even though we are not at war.

we also can spend $1 billion to retrofit a jet given to Trump by murders. One that he plans on keeping after he leaves Office.

2/3 of nursing home patients are on Medicaid.
36.2% of Missouri children are covered by Medicaid and that number is 50% in rural areas.
66% of adults on Medicaid are working. Most of the rest are elderly, caretakers, or have disability.
In District 4, 83,000 children rely on Medicaid for health care. 16,000 seniors benefit.
People on Medicaid are healthier. They go to the doctor! People without health insurance delay or go without and have far worse health outcomes.
Here’s a thought: let the 2017 tac cuts expire.

It’s almost like this guy filled his entire stock of political and substantive policy knowledge by listening to Rush Limbaugh for a few weeks in the late-1990s – and nothing else! He carpet bagged his way into Congress, replacing the formerly most ignorant person in Congress (Vicky H.). You hold that honor now,

You’re supposed to be Helping the little guy. How can sending the poor into more poverty benefit our country. We look foolish not helping our people.

Even Josh Hawley knows this is wrong!

All of a sudden Mark Alford is worried about national debt except when it comes to giving tax breaks for those that don’t need tax breaks.

You’re looking for money to give more tax cuts for the wealthy.

What a joke. Im amazed his tongue didnt fly out of his mouth while saying that.

First off, where do you think the tax dollars are coming from? And as for asking “people to show me why” — aren’t the applications for the service enough? Do people have to show up in rags, covered in campfire ashes to qualify for the state’s concern?
Further, the general welfare of the people is why. I presume we want a functional and stable society for everyone. Is the Republican view really to have beggars in the street as a way of social life? “Please, sir. I want some more.”
We already have a problem with people rendered homeless for various reasons, do we really want to expand on that model?
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Right wingnuts consider that a feature, not a bug.

Josh Hawley gets it. Why don’t you? NO, to taking away much needed health care just to give tax breaks to the super wealthy who already have too much! It’s IMMORAL!!

Medicaid pays for 2 of 3 seniors in Missouri nursing homes & 2 of 7 on disability. Seniors & disabled =24% of enrolled and get 60% of Medicaid payouts in MO. Of 19-64 yr olds on Medicaid in Mo 66% of them work. 1 in 3 kids in MO are on Medicaid. The reason is cause they are poor. Then 39% of births are pd for by Medicaid. Again..mothers are poor. What else can someone show you

Because my friends who need it will literally die without it? Because they can’t afford their medications? Because I would be homeless if we hadn’t been able to get it years ago when my son stayed a month in NICU, my husband worked full time and we HAD INSURANCE but STILL would be $20k out of pocket?

Wow, you are lucky enough to be in a position to do so much good for people and you choose to do this instead.

But somehow we can buy Greenland. We aren’t stupid Mark.

Mr. Alford, when will you have a real, in-person, town hall, instead of another meet and greet, or a rigged, virtual town halls where you get to pick who attends and what questions you’ll answer? Where you have to listen to your constituents instead of just talking at them to tell them your party’s line?

This is fair ONLY if you show me why you should receive taxpayer dollars for your healthcare. Because as far as i can tell, all you do is have coffee with constituents that agree with you. When’s the town hall?

How about you show people why you shouldn’t be voted out? Why don’t you show people that your oath the constitution actually means anything?

Alford sold his soul to the devil.

It’s not a reconciliation. You need to actually read the bill, and you are full of shit. You are empty of compassion

No, you are empty and NOT compassionate. You’re also inhumane you people have millions and millions dollars in your checking account with the average American living paycheck paycheck so I don’t know who you’re trying to convince you and that guy from CNN should be telling you the lies you are spewing!!!
The audacity this guy speaking about fraud your so-called president just took a $400 million BRIBE from the Saudi that attacked America. The audacity you people are shameless and inhumane is what you currently are [….]

Where were you when Trump 1.0 added about 8 Trillion to the debt? Dumbass.

Mark Alford (r) [2024 file photo].

They get no credit for finally doing what they should have done in the first place

30 Wednesday Jun 2021

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During the latest regular legislative session the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly failed to continue the legislation enabling the previously non-controversial Federal Reimbursement Allowance [FRA] program for Missouri.

There is a looming deadline for legislation to implement the program before it impacts Medicaid and forces cuts in other general revenue funded areas.

Governor Mike Parson (r) called a special session of the General Assembly in an attempt to deal with the mess.

Today in the Missouri House:

House Communications @MOHOUSECOMM
The House has truly agreed to and finally passed SB 1 (Extends the sunset on certain health care provider federal reimbursement allowances and modifies provisions relating to certain family planning health care services) with a vote of 140-13. #moleg
[….]
1:24 PM · Jun 30, 2021

You know, finally doing the right thing.

Now the governor has to sign it.

Previously:

“The buck stops…somewhere over there” (June 22, 2021)

On the mark (June 22, 2021)

Now what? (June 22, 2021)

Denny Hoskins (r): sleeping through school as an aspirational model for life (June 23, 2021)

If you take the health care out of Medicaid, is it still Medicaid? (June 25, 2021)

It’s taking long enough (June 26, 2021)

It’s taking long enough

26 Saturday Jun 2021

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During the latest regular legislative session the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly failed to continue the legislation enabling the previously non-controversial Federal Reimbursement Allowance [FRA] program for Missouri.

There is a looming deadline for legislation to implement the program before it impacts Medicaid and forces cuts in other general revenue funded areas.

Governor Mike Parson (r) called a special session of the General Assembly in attempt to deal with the mess. The General Assembly is now in that special session.

John Rizzo (D) [2019 file photo].

Senator John Rizzo (D):

J O H N R I Z Z O @JohnJRizzo
The MO Senate has passed a 3yr FRA. This version has NO LANGUAGE banning birth control & NO LANGUAGE defunding providers. Good work by all involved, especially the Senate Women who removed the list of birth control from the final bill.
1:18 AM · Jun 26, 2021

Early this morning, From the Senate Journal [pdf]:

Journal of the Senate
FIRST REGULAR SESSION
FIRST EXTRA SESSION
FOURTH DAY—SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 2021
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REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES

Senator Hough, Chairman of the Committee on Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight, submitted the following report:

Mr. President: Your Committee on Governmental Accountability and Fiscal Oversight, to which was referred SS No. 3 for SB 1, begs leave to report that it has considered the same and recommends that the bill do pass.

THIRD READING OF SENATE BILLS

SS No. 3 for SB 1, introduced by Senator Hegeman, entitled:

SENATE SUBSTITUTE NO. 3 FOR
SENATE BILL NO. 1

An Act to repeal sections 190.839, 198.439, 208.152, 208.437, 208.480, 338.550, and 633.401, RSMo, and to enact in lieu thereof seven new sections relating to MO HealthNet. Was taken up.

On motion of Senator Hegeman, SS No. 3 for SB 1 was read the 3rd time and passed by the following vote:

YEAS—Senators
Arthur Bean Beck Bernskoetter Brown Cierpiot Crawford
Eigel Eslinger Gannon Hegeman Hough Luetkemeyer May
Mosley O’Laughlin Razer Rehder Riddle Rizzo Roberts
Rowden Schatz Schupp Washington White Wieland Williams—28

NAYS—Senators
Brattin Burlison Koenig Moon Onder—5

Absent—Senators—None
Absent with leave—Senator Hoskins—1
Vacancies—None

The President declared the bill passed.
On motion of Senator Hegeman, title to the bill was agreed to.
Senator Hegeman moved that the vote by which the bill passed be reconsidered.
Senator Rowden moved that motion lay on the table, which motion prevailed.
[….]

Denny Hoskins (r) [2016 file photo].

Previously:

“The buck stops…somewhere over there” (June 22, 2021)

On the mark (June 22, 2021)

Now what? (June 22, 2021)

Denny Hoskins (r): sleeping through school as an aspirational model for life (June 23, 2021)

If you take the health care out of Medicaid, is it still Medicaid? (June 25, 2021)

If you take the health care out of Medicaid, is it still Medicaid?

25 Friday Jun 2021

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Uh, no.

During the latest regular legislative session the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly failed to continue the legislation enabling the previously non-controversial Federal Reimbursement Allowance [FRA] program for Missouri.

There is a looming deadline for legislation to implement the program before it impacts Medicaid and forces cuts in other general revenue funded areas.

Governor Mike Parson (r) called a special session of the General Assembly in attempt to deal with the mess. The General Assembly is now in that special session.

The Red Lily, Anatole France

…For the poor it consists in sustaining and preserving the wealthy in their power and their laziness. The poor must work for this, in presence of the majestic quality of the law which prohibits the wealthy as well as the poor from sleeping under the bridges, from begging in the streets, and from stealing bread…

Representative Mary Elizabeth Coleman (r) [2019 file photo].

Today:

MaryElizabethColeman @meaccoleman
For the record. No one is talking about banning contraception. There is discussion about tax payers NOT buying them. I can’t imagine there is anything the left doesn’t want the government to pay for.
10:26 AM · Jun 25, 2021

Some of the responses:

For the record, you cannot stop the Government from paying for healthcare, including Birth Control. This is all a scam on pro life voters.
Also for the record, birth control, by far, the best way to prevent abortions & is extremely cost effective for the gov’t; saves huge $$.

Birth control is a mandatory medical service under Mo Health net, as funded by Federal Medicaid $$.

What’s next? Republicans decide taxpayers shouldn’t pay for insulin? Blood pressure meds? Where does this stop?

Actually, they want nothing at all.

What’s next is other meds/conditions that only impact women. The goal is to subjugate women. No medical necessary hysterectomies, no mammograms, no Pap smears. Republicans will keep trying to control women.

For the record, it’s just that we understand basic economics: Birth control is cheaper than unplanned kids.

How does “only” banning it for people only on Medicaid make what you’re saying any better?

You want taxpayers to shoulder the burden of lawsuits that will arise when police in our state try to enforce federal gun laws, get sued for it, and then sue the state in return.

Likewise, your contempt for most life is readily apparent in your desire to milk as many pregnancies out of low-income women as possible and then callously ignore the healthcare needs of both them and their babies. Single moms can only make $3000 to qualify for Medicaid as is 1/2

2/2 and you would deny them even that unless your bizarre and unfounded grudge against contraception is made into a law that will never be viable anyway. You are running for State Senate on phony pro-life gesturing.

For the record the issue is the RIGHT trying to remove common medical care coverage in place for decades essentially banning covered contraceptive care & medication used to treat endometriosis. I can’t imagine there’s any reproductive healthcare the RIGHT would willingly pay for.

Every single study shows the countries with the fewest abortions are those that provide taxpayer funded healthcare with a broad range of contraceptive options. You’re anti-abortion? Covering contraceptives & providing great pre-natal care is the way to achieve this.

Meanwhile, we are NOW, because of the obstinance of THE RIGHT, talking about no Medicaid coverage at all. Who does that hurt? Mother’s, children, and you know what? It hurts YOU the taxpayer. Missouri insurance plans go up. Hospital bills go up. Our tax $ doesn’t go as far.

So, Mary Elizabeth, don’t even begin to come at THE LEFT when 89% of all Americans approves of birth control, even Catholics use birth control, and the taxpayers at large are THRILLED to pay this fractional amount to cover this form of healthcare.

Birth control is healthcare. I pay for yours if you choose/need so. And I don’t quibble over what’s covered or not. Same for someone on Medicaid. Every woman deserves that right to make those healthcare decisions.

Mary doesn’t want to share that she and her family want full access to all of these services and privacy to make those decisions but ultimately her goal is to take that right from Missouri women. We see your long game Coleman and we call BS.

Also I can pretty much guarantee that “the left” doesn’t want a single penny of Missouri revenue going to make the state a theocracy

Nice try. When you can’t afford something, you can’t access it. It’s a ban on contraception. Your party needs to stop treating Americans like dumb-dumbs.

This logic she is playing here is absolutely dangerous. Coleman knows better. This logic can be used as to ban other medical options and treatment plans. This is not limited government. This is a violation of people’s freedom to a safe and healthy life.

You’re an embarrassment

For the record you are narrow minded and short sighted.

Previously:

Now what? (June 22, 2021)

Denny Hoskins (r): sleeping through school as an aspirational model for life

23 Wednesday Jun 2021

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It’s there. In ink.

The first page of the United States Constitution [1787] – National Archives

The first page of the United States Constitution [1787] – National Archives – detail

[….]
Article. I.
[….]
Section. 2.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.

No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen.

Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons. The actual Enumeration shall be made within three Years after the first Meeting of the Congress of the United States, and within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitledFederal to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New-York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina five, and Georgia three.
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“…Representatives and direct Taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this Union, according to their respective Numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons…”

Free Persons. Three fifths of all other Persons.

Denny Hoskins (r) [2017 file photo].

“Useless laws weaken the necessary laws.” – Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (1689 – 1755)

Today in the legislative special session which is supposed to address the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly failure in the regular session to continue the legislation enabling the previously non-controversial Federal Reimbursement Allowance [FRA] program for Missouri:

FIRST EXTRAORDINARY SESSION
SENATE BILL NO. 5 [pdf]
101ST GENERAL ASSEMBLY
INTRODUCED BY SENATOR HOSKINS.
2833S.01I ADRIANE D. CROUSE, Secretary
AN ACT

To amend chapter 160, RSMo, by adding thereto one new section relating to public school
curriculum and instruction.

Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, as follows:

1 Section A. Chapter 160, RSMo, is amended by adding thereto
2 one new section, to be known as section 160.2550, to read as
3 follows:

1 160.2550. 1. For the purposes of the provisions of
2 this section, “divisive concepts” shall mean concepts that:
3 (1) One race or sex is inherently superior to another
4 race or sex;
5 (2) The United States is fundamentally racist or
6 sexist;
7 (3) An individual, by virtue of his or her race or
8 sex, is inherently racist, sexist, or oppressive, whether
9 consciously or unconsciously;
10 (4) An individual should be discriminated against or
11 receive adverse treatment solely or partly because of his or
12 her race or sex;
13 (5) Members of one race or sex cannot avoid treating
14 others differently with respect to race or sex;
15 (6) An individual’s moral character is necessarily
16 determined by his or her race or sex;
17 (7) An individual, by virtue of his or her race or
18 sex, bears responsibility for actions committed in the past
19 by other members of the same race or sex;
20 (8) Any individual should feel discomfort, guilt,
21 anguish, or any other form of psychological distress on
22 account of his or her race or sex;
23 (9) Meritocracy or traits such as a hard work ethic
24 are racist or sexist, or were created by a particular race
25 to oppress another race;
26 (10) Promote any form of race or sex stereotyping,
27 including ascribing character traits, values, moral and
28 ethical codes, privileges, status, or beliefs to a race,
29 sex, or an individual because of his or her race or sex; or
30 (11) Promote any form of race or sex scapegoating,
31 including assigning fault, blame, or conscious or
32 unconscious bias to one or more members of a race or sex and
33 including claims that, consciously or unconsciously, any
34 person is inherently racist, sexist, or inclined to oppress
35 others by virtue of their race or sex.
36 2. It shall be the policy of the state board of
37 education not to promote or allow divisive concepts in
38 public school curricula or instruction.

What a pandering ahistorical fool.

Uh, in 1787, at the founding of our nation and in our Constitution there were those who were not “free Persons” who were defined as 3/5 of a person. If that isn’t fundamentally racist, what is?

The Red Lily, Anatole France

…For the poor it consists in sustaining and preserving the wealthy in their power and their laziness. The poor must work for this, in presence of the majestic quality of the law which prohibits the wealthy as well as the poor from sleeping under the bridges, from begging in the streets, and from stealing bread…

Previously:

“The buck stops…somewhere over there” (June 22, 2021)

On the mark (June 22, 2021)

Now what? (June 22, 2021)

Too stupid to remember to breathe (June 23, 2021)

On the mark

22 Tuesday Jun 2021

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During the latest regular legislative session the right wingnut controlled Missouri General Assembly failed to continue the legislation enabling the previously non-controversial Federal Reimbursement Allowance [FRA] program for Missouri.

There is a looming deadline for legislation to implement the program before it impacts Medicaid and forces cuts in other general revenue funded areas.

Claire McCaskill (D) [2018 file photo].

Today:

Claire McCaskill @clairecmc
I cannot adequately describe the disfunction & chaos that is MO state govt right now. Refusing people’s will on Medicaid expansion,refusing to re-up pro forma law that also leaves billions of Fed $ on the table,passing unconstitutional backwoods bullshit on guns. So embarrassing.
9:13 AM · Jun 22, 2021

Previously:

“The buck stops…somewhere over there” (June 22, 2021)