MISSOURI is one of the "hot" states in the effort to license midwives. Last year, the Missouri CPM licensure bill, introduced by Senator John Loudon (R-Ballwin), was effectively filibustered by Missouri Senator Graham (D - Columbia), which incluced reading pages of the phone book, discussing his and his colleagues' new blackberries, and countless hours of wasting Missourians taxpayer dollars.
Seemingly out of frustration, Louden attached a clause onto an insurance bill that allows anyone to practice if they are certified to provide tocological services, by a group that's accredited by the National Commission on Certified Agencies (in other words, CPMs, CNMs or CMs).
The doctors, with all their overblown education, didn't catch it. The law passed, and it was a huge victory, which is now being battled out in the Missouri courts.
This year, a licensure bill passed the Missouri Senate after some political maneuvering, but the medical lobbyists stopped it from getting out of the House.
The stories from those "on the ground" in Missouri are spooky. This is hardball politics, to say the least.
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