[Nfbmo] FW: New Development!

[Gene Coulter]

Here are the Senate members:
Mayer
Crowell
Crowell
Keaveny
Curls
It appears that the conference is to meet  this afternoon so calls and 
Emails  should be done with haste.  If the Silvey verison  gets through 
conference then the full legislature will may vote on the entire bill if 
there is time. If they pass the Silvey version it will be on to the 
Governor. Unlike the budget this bill could be vetoed but I suspect it’ll 
have a lot to do with how he feels about the main part of the bill on that. 
Silvey is really pushing to push this issue for some reason.
Gene


From: Gary Wunder
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 11:15 AM
To: 'NFB of Missouri Mailing List'
Subject: [Nfbmo] FW: New Development!

I forward this along from Denny. It is the logical follow-up to what they
did last week, but it is worth trying to block if we can.

Gary




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From: Denny Huff [mailto:dhuff at moblind.org]
Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:28 AM
To: ew at moblind.org
Cc: Missouri-L
Subject: New Development!



All,



                It looks as though Rep. Silvey has submitted an amendment to
SB854 which was passed by the House yesterday.  The amendment will establish
the statutory authority for the recent restructuring of the State Blind
Medical benefit passed in the Appropriations bills.  The Senate voted it
down so it will now go to a conference committee.  Below are the names of
the conference committee members that will address this bill.  We need to
contact these Senators and Representatives and let them know this is not
acceptable.

I don't have the names of the Senate conference members but will send that
info as soon as I receive it.  In the meantime please contact the following
Representatives immediately.



Thomas Long

573-751-2381

Thomas.Long at house.mo.gov



Jay Barnes

573-751-2412

Jay.Barnes at house.mo.gov



RyanSilv 573-751-5282



Ryan.Silvey at house.mo.gov



Rory Ellinger

573-751-4265

Rory.Ellinger at house.mo.gov



Judy Morgan

573-751-4485

Judy.Morgan at house.mo.gov







                Should the bill pass the conference committee it would
effectively eliminate a large number of blind pension recipients from
receiving medical coverage.



                We need to let them know that many blind people would be
without medical coverage with not recourse for finding new coverage.  It
would most likely result in many of the recipients needing to eventually go
into a nursing home to receive the care and medical coverage they would
need.  Many of them would need to go to an emergency room to receive health
care costing the state more money in the long run.



Plead our case with them and as always, keep it simple and polite.







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