Group: soc.veterans
From: "Roy Blankenship"
Date: Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: Health Care Horror Stories By PAUL KRUGMAN


> "Geo" wrote in message
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> > On Apr 12, 6:24 pm, "Sid9" wrote:
> >> "Geo" wrote in message
> >>
> >>
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> >>
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> >> > On Apr 12, 6:05 pm, "Roy Blankenship"
> >> > wrote:
> >> >> "glw82664" wrote in message
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> >>
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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...
> >>
> >> >> > > > "Sid9" wrote in message
> >> >> > > >news:CzJLj.21955$%15.13804@bignews7.bellsouth.net...
> >> >> > > >> 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.
> >>
> >> >> > > >> 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.
> >>
> >> >> > > When you earn $7/hr, take home #1000 a month, $100 is a the
> >> >> > > difference
> >> >> > > between a place to live and medical care.
> >>
> >> >> > > Larry
> >>
> >> >> > $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?

Guess what, shit-for-brains. Our government is already taking an active role
in the reproductive lives of the American people by LIMITING the information
available. How about MORE education and less religious, repressed,
holier-than-thou bullshit programs that trap people? Never mind, you are too
dense to even understand what I am talking about.