Melissa Miller is business editor at The Southeast Missourian. A graduate of the University of Missouri Journalism School, she's worked as a reporter, photographer, editor and as the executive director of two not-for-profit organizations. After living in Michigan and then Indiana, she moved back to her hometown of Jackson, Mo. In addition to writing daily stories for The Southeast Missourian, Melissa coordinates editorial content each month for Business Today. Business Today is a monthly publication for southeast Missouri's business community. Monthly themes include health care, agriculture, women in business, technology and more. Business Today is direct mailed to business owner and managers throughout southeast Missouri and southern Illinois. Follow her updates on local business developments at www.twitter.com/semissourianbiz or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/MelissaMillerSoutheastMissourian

Health Care Reform explained tomorrow

Posted Wednesday, June 16, 2010, at 12:25 PM

Thomas McAuliffe, health policy analyst for the Missouri Foundation for Health, will discuss the new federal health care reform law tomorrow at 7:30 a.m. at The Show Me Center.

His presentation is titled: "Federal Health Reform: Why? What" When? Who?"

I recently spoke with McAuliffe while working on a story about how the these healthcare reforms will impact local businesses.

Here's a link to the story, which ran a few weeks ago.

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1638360.html

Tomorrow McAuliffe will talk about how this legislation will impact families, individuals as well as businesses.

The Missouri Foundation for Health is a not-for-profit, nonpartisan agency that distributes health grants.

The program is part of Cover Missouri, a project of the Foundation to promote quality, affordable health coverage for every Missourian. More information is available at www.covermissouri.org.

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The politicians that voted for this health bill can't explain the bill, but this guy can?

The only thing known about this healthcare bill is that we, the citizens, and our succeeding generations will be writing sizable checks to the government to pay for it.

-- Posted by FreedomFadingFast on Wed, Jun 16, 2010, at 2:36 PM
Melissa

I am curious where the money came from to start this foundation. All of their revenue over the past 3 years (info on 990's at guidestar.org) is investment income. Net assets in 2006 was over $1.2 billion and the only income was $120,029,489 from investments (no donations or grants to speak off). Very similar numbers for 2007 and then a drop in net assets due to the decline in the stock market for 2008 (Net assets reduced to $836,749,832). The 2009 990 is not available for viewing yet.

So my question is, who founded the group and where did the money come from?

Just FYI - the President/CEO of this not-for-profit was paid $485,083 and the VP was paid $311,830 in 2008. Everyone in Cape seems to believe that not-for-profits should not accumulate net assets. Just shows to go ya that everything is relative.

-- Posted by Shrike_Three on Wed, Jun 16, 2010, at 2:45 PM

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