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12/4/2007 - Republican Representative Unhappy with Interpreatation of Committee's Role:
During the first meeting of the MoHealthNet's oversight committee St. Joseph Republican Representative Robert Schaaf expressed his concern with recent talk that the committee's role was solely to advise on health care issues. 
5/2/2007 - House committee holds second hearing on HealthNet:
JEFFERSON CITY - With two weeks left in the 2007 legislative session, a committee vote on the bill to restructure Medicaid has been delayed until Tuesday, at the earliest, committee chair Rep. Robert Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, said during a committee hearing Wednesday.
4/4/2007 - Senate gives initial passage to Medicaid reform bill:
A provision for Medicaid fraud was added to the bill during Wednesday's debate after Sen. Victor Callahan, D-Jackson County proposed an amendment to include it. Citing concern that the House would reject the entire bill because of the provision, similar to what happened to the Medicaid fraud bill last session, Sen. Luann Ridgeway submitted a Medicaid fraud bill already passed by the House this session, sponsored by Rep. Robert Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, to replace Callahan's amendment.
4/4/2007 - So what is a federally qualified health center?:
Rep. Robert Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, who is a family physician, was one of only four House members to vote against the funding bill, which passed 153-4.  He said that because of the cost-based reimbursement, federally qualified health centers get four times the reimbursement that physicians receive.
4/25/2007 - House committee hears HealthNet testimony:
Wednesday's initial hearing ended with Rep. Robert Schaaf saying that the committee will submit a substitute bill and take testimony again Tuesday and Wednesday of next week before revising the substitute and submitting it to the House floor. He called the move a "very unusual way of doing business."
4/16/2007 - Medicaid reform heads to the House:
Rep. Robert Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, the chair of the House committee the bill was assigned to, said that he will probably take up the bill next week. He said that four weeks is "way more than enough time" to pass the bill.
3/7/2007 - FQHC appropriation passes House:
The bill passed the House with a vote of 153-4. Rep. Robert Schaaf, R-St. Joseph, a family physician, was among the four who voted against the bill. He said that he voted against the bill because directing $60 million to FQHC's is unjust, misdirected and unwise.
2/6/2007 - Medicaid Abuse Bill Passes, but not Without Debate, Amendments:
St. Joeseph Republican Representative Robert Schaaf is the bill's sponsor.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of December 3, 2007:
Republican Representative Robert Schaaf expressed his unhappiness with the Department of Social Services' director Deborah Scott's interpretation of the role of the committee set up to advise MoHealthNet.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 2, 2007:
Gloria Crull of the Family Health Center in Columbia explains what they plan to do with the money and what a federally qualified health center is. Rep. Robert Schaaf, R-St. Joseph explains why he thinks the funding is a bad idea.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of December 3, 2007:
Republican Representative Robert Schaaf expressed his unhappiness with the Department of Social Services' director Deborah Scott's interpretation of the role of the committee set up to advise MoHealthNet.
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