For the second year in a row, Rep. Mary Bland, D-Kansas City, will try to convince the General Assembly that a single-payer, state-run health care plan is the best prescription for the state. Legislators have proposed similar bills since 1990.
One health-care bill that was actually killed by a vote, rather than by the General Assembly's inaction, was the bill to provide health-care coverage to all Missourians, sponsored by Rep. Mary Bland, D-Kansas City.
"The Lord Jesus Christ gave us the choice to follow or not to follow him," said Rep. Mary Bland, D-Kansas City. "Certainly, a woman should have this choice. Why don't you all stop playing God?"
The bill, introduced by Rep. Mary Bland, would grant tax credits to businesses that provide day care for children of employees at or near the workplace. The tax credits would be for 10 percent of child care expenses.
"It would be simpler to look at it all at once, to get it all in one package," said Rep. Mary Bland, D-Kansas City. Bland is the sponsor of a bill to require insurers to expand coverage of mammograms. "But if it has to be done piecemeal, so be it. Just so it gets done."
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