Missouri
Related: About this forum“If they overdose and kill themselves, it just removes them from the gene pool,”
Your Senate on drugs
While the Missouri House has embarrassed the state with a spate of wacky bills, the Senates problem is that it cant pass much of anything.
Take this weeks demise of a bill to set up a government database to track prescription drug purchases. All but two states have done this, to prevent doctor shopping to feed addictions or resell pharmaceuticals.
Missouri should pass this bill, lest it become a black market for prescription drugs. But the idea of consenting to a government database was too much for Republican Sen. Rob Schaaf of St. Joseph and some other senators. With Schaaf leading, they embarked on an eight-hour filibuster and eventually killed the bill.
During the debate, Schaaf conceded that he supports stricter seat belt laws because people hurt in wrecks cost the government and infringe on other peoples liberties.
Not so prescription drug users, he said.
If they overdose and kill themselves, it just removes them from the gene pool, Schaaf said.
Classy. Schaaf, by the way, is a family physician.
Read more here: http://voices.kansascity.com/entries/laughing-missouri-backstabbing-kansas/#storylink=cpy
Skittles
(153,169 posts)SOUNDS WORSE THAN TEXAS
saras
(6,670 posts)Namvet67
(111 posts)I'm a physician......there's no room in the profession for a nut-job like this. Chemotherapy costs a lot too.....does he deny treatment because the cancer patient's immune system is bad for the gene pool?