Super Tuesday!

On behalf of the Missouri Coalition for People with Limb Loss, I want to let you all know what a successful day we had in Jefferson City yesterday, February 5, 2008. For us, it really was a Super Tuesday! We found three Representatives enthusiastic about sponsoring our bill for prosthetic parity: Rep. Dr. Wayne Cooper (left), Rep. Jim Avery, and Rep. Rick Stream.

Dr. Cooper is the Chairman of the Health Policy Committee, and he committed to giving our bill a hearing. After lunch, we were able to also get the support of Senator Griesheimer, who will sponsor our bill and introduce it to his committee for small business and insurance.

At this point, our next step is to wait for the draft bill we gave Dr. Cooper to be drawn up with the right language. In the meantime, we need to start contacting amputees who might want to travel to Jefferson City for the hearing, whenever that is. Once we have a bill introduced and a hearing scheduled, we can begin to make phone calls and write lots and lots of letters to those Reps on the committee, hopefully from people in their district.