{"id":405,"date":"2011-02-10T22:04:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T04:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/?p=405"},"modified":"2024-07-14T05:42:31","modified_gmt":"2024-07-14T10:42:31","slug":"reboot-missouri-state-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/10\/reboot-missouri-state-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Reboot Missouri State Government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Make your ideas heard on how to make the Missouri state  government more streamlined. Senate Leader Robert Mayer, on behalf of the  Missouri Senate, invites\u00c2\u00a0Missouri residents\u00c2\u00a0to submit\u00c2\u00a0ideas on how to reboot  Missouri State Government &#8211; whether it be through more control, alterations or  deletions.<\/p>\n<p>The webpage at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/RebootMO\/\">http:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/RebootMO\/<\/a> is  one step in the Missouri Senate&#8217;s effort to identify ways to make government  smaller and more efficient. Every idea will be considered.<\/p>\n<p>Just enter your ideas at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/RebootMO\/RebootMO.aspx\">http:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/RebootMO\/RebootMO.aspx<\/a>.  Anonymous submissions will be accepted. Constituents are also invited to contact  their state senators directly to submit ideas. Go here to find out who is your  state senator: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.senate.mo.gov\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A Few Suggestions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Mental Health Insurance Parity  needs to be abolished in this state. It acts essentially as a tax give-away to  the vested interests of the mental health industry.<\/li>\n<li> Assign the Department of Health  to open \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Free State Health Clinics\u00e2\u20ac\u009d on the grounds of our state mental hospitals  using the saved tax money from the Department of Mental Health. The facilities  already exist; we only need good doctors to man the examining rooms.<\/li>\n<li> Hold open and very public  investigations into the activities of the Department of Mental Health. Thousands  of Missourian citizens are being harmed by the psychiatrists in state employ.  Additionally hundreds are routinely kept incarcerated far past the time of  simple prison sentence.<\/li>\n<li> Severely  cut the Department of Mental Health\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s bloated wasteful budget. We can easily  save millions of tax dollars by using no psychotropic drugs on our citizens.  These are now being shown to actually cause more medical problems than they  supposedly help.<\/li>\n<li> Fold the Department of Mental  Health into the Department of Health and Senior Services. The DMH cannot manage  itself, witness State Auditor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s investigation and reported deaths in state-run  facilities. DMH is an agency out of control.<\/li>\n<li> Abolish the practice of  Electro-Convulsive Therapy (ECT) in this state. This barbaric pseudo-medical  treatment is responsible for thousands of Missouri citizens being on the roles  of Medicare and Medicaid. ECT causes permanent brain damage and the victims rely  on Medicaid to survive.<\/li>\n<li> Change the Not Guilty by Reason  of Insanity rules in the states legal system. Our (NGRI) rules allow the career  criminal to use the system to evade prison. They are routinely released earlier  than if they were incarcerated in our prisons. Establish a firm \u00e2\u20ac\u0153If you do the  crime, then you do the time\u00e2\u20ac\u009d policy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make your ideas heard on how to make the Missouri state government more streamlined. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/10\/reboot-missouri-state-government\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-muddy-river-newsletter","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NMpC-6x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cchrstl.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}