soc.veterans

"Jerry Okamura" wrote in message
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> "Sid9" wrote in message
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>> "Sri Bodhi Prana" wrote in message
>> news:3a834729-2055-418f-85fa-92b3598b540a@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>> On Apr 11, 7:18 am, "Sid9" wrote:
>>>> April 11, 2008
>>>>
>>>> Op-Ed Columnist
>>>>
>>>> Health Care Horror Stories
>>>>
>>>> By PAUL KRUGMAN
>>>>
>>>> Not long ago, a young Ohio woman named Trina Bachtel, who was having
>>>> health
>>>> problems while pregnant, tried to get help at a local clinic.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, she had previously sought care at the same clinic while
>>>> uninsured and had a large unpaid balance. The clinic wouldn't see her
>>>> again
>>>> unless she paid $100 per visit - which she didn't have.
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>>>> Eventually, she sought care at a hospital 30 miles away. By then,
>>>> however,
>>>> it was too late. Both she and the baby died.
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>>> Sometimes you get sick and die. That's just the way it is.
>>>
>>> Sri Bodhi Prana
>>>
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>> Fatalism is a failed concept.
>> Humans are smart enough to overcome much of what nature hands us.
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>> This woman and her fetus did not have to die
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> Lots of people don't have to die, but they die anyway.....

True.

But it is a damning indictment on the right that they die for personal
greed.

Larry