Show-Me Institute

Dave Roland of Rex Sinqefield's Show-Me Institute reacts to yesterday's approval of the "Health Care Freedom Act":

Many of the legislators and citizen groups who had worked to pass the original bill are now hailing the passage of HB 1764, implying that if the people vote to adopt this statute, it will have the same effect as the proposed constitutional amendment might have. Unfortunately, this is simply not true. Missouri voters may well use this referendum as a political statement through which they can express their opinions about the federal health care reform law, but the text that might have been legally useful as a constitutional amendment will have zero legal effect as a statute...

The Riverfront Times has the scoop: Grand Jury Investigating Fraud at Show-Me Institute, 'Substantial Misuse of Funds'"