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"Geo" wrote in message
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> On Apr 12, 6:24 pm, "Sid9" wrote:
>> "Geo" wrote in message
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>> > On Apr 12, 6:05 pm, "Roy Blankenship"
>> > wrote:
>> >> "glw82664" wrote in message
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>> >>news:6109d639-6427-4a8f-8284-2a5c6afcfef8@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com...
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>> >> > On Apr 11, 6:14 pm, "Larry Hewitt" wrote:
>> >> > > "Taylor" wrote in message
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>> >> > >news:T_mdnc1o4o7xEGLanZ2dnUVZ_oesnZ2d@comcast.com...
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>> >> > > > "Sid9" wrote in message
>> >> > > >news:CzJLj.21955$%15.13804@bignews7.bellsouth.net...
>> >> > > >> April 11, 2008
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>> >> > > >> Op-Ed Columnist
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>> >> > > >> Health Care Horror Stories
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>> >> > > >> By PAUL KRUGMAN
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>> >> > > >> 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.
>>
>> >> > > > She didn't have $100 to save her life??? Ridiculous, like all
>> >> > > > of
>> >> > > > Krugman's articles.
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>> >> > > When you earn $7/hr, take home #1000 a month, $100 is a the
>> >> > > difference
>> >> > > between a place to live and medical care.
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>> >> > > Larry
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>> >> > $7/hr and she's off having kids. What a moron.
>>
>> >> Guess what....
>>
>> >> They are everywhere. Most of them vote Republican, if they vote at
>> >> all.
>> >> Every time I walk into my friend's automotive complex, you can hear
>> >> Rush
>> >> blaring from someone's radio. These people make up the bulk of the
>> >> American
>> >> Red States, they buy every bit of the propaganda being spewed and
>> >> regurgitate it here. I am sure they get on a rant at the church
>> >> social,
>> >> too,
>> >> because they are all, by god, Christians. Christians who think it is
>> >> OK
>> >> that
>> >> this administration is murdering people who have done nothing to us.
>> >> OK
>> >> because they have been convinced by Rush and our leaders that the
>> >> Iraqis
>> >> "hate us for our freedoms".
>>
>> >> When I heard Bush say that I just wanted to puke, yet think of all the
>> >> morons who jumped on that bandwagon.
>>
>> > Prey tell, what on earth does your goofy rant have to do with a $7/hr
>> > moron having kids they can't afford? I really don't care if they are
>> > repub or dem. Stupid is stupid.
>>
>> Was she taught contraception?
>> Was she taught about the availability of termination of the preganancy?
>> Was she given any kind of sex education.....any kind?
>
> Whose responsibility is that? Oh wait, let me guess...the
> govt...right?


Public schools a good place to start...to make sure everybody gets the
lesson...boys, too.

The basic problem is health care.
She may have wanted the child
the story doesn't tell us that. The
fact that her death and the fetus'
death were avoidable