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9/9/2009 - Public options widely available in Missouri:
State Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles, repeatedly has sponsored a bill to expand a public option beyond those currently covered under Medicaid. But the plans, Insure Missouri and Show Me Health Care, both died in the last minutes before the end of session. Missouri's Medicaid program -- now renamed MO HealthNet -- provides health care to over 850,000 parents, children and people with disabilities.
5/6/2009 - House Republicans reject health care bill, accuse Nixon of bribery:
In return, House budget leaders said they would pass Republican state Sen. Tom Dempsey's "Show-Me Health Coverage" bill in the House and into conference on Monday.
5/5/2009 - $2 million for St. Charles roads:
Republican Senator Tom Dempsey proposed the measure to aid in the road widening project and one other.
5/2/2009 - Major changes from Health Insurance Committee to Show Me Health Coverage :
The Senate version of the bill, called "Show Me Health Care," would cover about 35,000 uninsured parents who make too much to qualify for Medicaid, said bill sponsor Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County.
5/15/2009 - Eco devo bill passes too late to save health care legislation:
The economic development bill, which Nixon said he wanted on his desk in March, passed the Senate this morning after going into the early hours on Friday morning. Time had expired on the original health care proposal, but bill sponsor, Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County, threw a new health care proposal into a food stamps bill in hopes of getting it to the House.
5/15/2009 - Hopes for health care legislation end with session:
When it became apparent that the legislative process would stunt Senate Bill 306 from reaching a conference, bill sponsor Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County, made a last-ditch effort to revive his efforts by attaching a new version as an amendment to another bill dealing with food stamps for the elderly.
5/13/2009 - House passes Show Me Health Care :
But Sen. Tom Dempsey, D-St. Charles County, said that focusing on the Hospital Association and transparency was taking the focus away from the point of the bill.
5/13/2009 - Show Me Health Coverage heads to conference:
But Senator Tom Dempsey said that Ervin is more concerned about transparency than insuring Missourians.
4/3/2009 - Health Care:
The bill is sponsored by Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles.  His bill has the support from members on both sides of the aisle, although not all Republicans.
4/29/2009 - College bonding bill clears Senate committee:
Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles, said all of the projects funded by MOHELA haven't been finished.
4/16/2009 - Senate approves Show Me Health Coverage:
The bill's sponsor -- Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County -- said he supports market reforms that would bring the consumer into the process, but he said that the free market isn't capable of effectively bringing health insurance to everybody. "If you had a free market solution, there'd be competition in all the areas where there's a profit," said Dempsey. "What that would leave the hospitals with is the people who can't pay for service. There'd be no competition for p..
4/16/2009 - Senate approves Show Me Health Coverage:
Bill sponsor Tom Dempsey said his primary goal is to get the uninsured out of the ER and in to see a primary care physician.
4/1/2009 - Show-Me Health Coverage bill perfected in the senate:
Bill sponsor, Majority Caucus Whip Tom Dempsey disagreed.
3/3/2009 - Missouri Senator urges committee to insure more than 200,000 low-income residents.:
The bill's sponsor, Sen. Tom Dempsey, R- St. Charles County, told the Senate Seniors, Families and Public Health Committee Tuesday the plan would keep thousands of uninsured Missouri citizens out of emergency rooms visits that are expensive to the government.
3/3/2009 - Uninsured Missourians would get coverage with resurrected health bill.:
The bill is sponsored by Republican Senator Tom Dempsey of St. Charles County.
1/27/2009 - State of the State address focuses on job creation and health care :
"I like what he said on economic development, talking about the strengths we have," said Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County.
1/27/2009 - Gov. Nixon's campaign promises leave one senator unimpressed with State of State address:
Despite promises to expand Medicare and to recruit children into state-funded health care insurance programs, some legislators felt the speech lacked specifics. Senator Tom Dempsey, a St. Louis County republican, said he wanted more details from the governor on health care after a campaign devoted to the topic.
1/14/2009 - Nixon: Driver license offices to be competitively bid:
Among the first six selected by the Nixon administration to be competitively bid is the St. Charles office whose fee agents include the father of the former Missouri House GOP Leader Tom Dempsey, now a state senator from St. Charles.
- Legislative wrap :
Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County, the Senate sponsor of the health care bill, said he is working on a conference committee substitute in case the Senate passes the economic development bill and the flood gates open allowing other legislation to get through. Otherwise, Dempsey said he will look into attaching the bill as an amendment onto another bill.  
- Missouri Government News for the Week of May 4, 2009:
The Senate version of the bill, called "Show Me Health Care," would cover about 35,000 uninsured parents who make too much to qualify for Medicaid, said bill sponsor Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of April 27, 2009:
The Senate version of the bill, called "Show Me Health Care," would cover about 35,000 uninsured parents who make too much to qualify for Medicaid, said bill sponsor Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 9, 2009:
Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County, revived a bill providing health coverage to Missouri workers too rich for Medicaid, but too poor for private insurance.
- Missouri Government News for the Week of March 2, 2009:
Sen. Tom Dempsey, R-St. Charles County, revived a bill providing health coverage to Missouri workers too rich for Medicaid, but too poor for private insurance.
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