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Old 01-02-2010, 01:20 AM   #31
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/cold hearted/What possible good comes from dumping someone else's money into lifesaving care for someone making no contribution to society?/bastard/
That is NOT FAIR. Some people think Rush contributes a lot to society.
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Old 01-02-2010, 10:58 AM   #32
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Rush is able to fund any kind of care he wants for himself so good for him. My semi-joking question was why other people should have to pay for another guy's treatment especially if he is the skid row drunk?
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Old 01-02-2010, 11:38 AM   #33
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``Are there no prisons?'' asked Scrooge.

``Plenty of prisons,'' said the gentleman, laying down the pen again.

``And the Union workhouses?'' demanded Scrooge. ``Are they still in operation?''

``They are. Still,'' returned the gentleman, `` I wish I could say they were not.''

``The Treadmill and the Poor Law are in full vigour, then?'' said Scrooge.

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``Many can't go there; and many would rather die.''

``If they would rather die,'' said Scrooge, ``they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. Besides -- excuse me -- I don't know that.''
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Old 01-02-2010, 11:55 AM   #34
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Pffft! I bet a skid road drunk wouldn't. I bet even a non-entity named SamIam wouldn't.
Actually, they do, and you would. And a friendly person from patient resources would help you fill out a medical assistance application so you could have state-funded medical coverage after you left the hospital.

Been there, done that, seen it with my own eyes.

The system is not as broken as Obama wants you to think.

A better system for unfunded (or underfunded) persons needing primary care would be a significant improvement.
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Old 01-02-2010, 12:31 PM   #35
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I agree with your last sentence and feel envy for those living in PA. Colorado is a very conservative state, despite having a democratic governer at the moment. Colorado spends as little on indigent care as it possibly can get away with. When I didn't have health insurance some years back and became ill and needed expensive tests, Colorado medicine just shrugged its shoulders. One medical official told me to move to California since I would get better care there.
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Old 01-02-2010, 02:47 PM   #36
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I agree with your last sentence and feel envy for those living in PA. Colorado is a very conservative state, despite having a democratic governer at the moment. Colorado spends as little on indigent care as it possibly can get away with. When I didn't have health insurance some years back and became ill and needed expensive tests, Colorado medicine just shrugged its shoulders. One medical official told me to move to California since I would get better care there.
Well, it is a cold state and the bodies of those who died without care could keep for months in the snow. I'm guessing that might be why some of those ministries are popular in CO. Sing a hymn, get a free bowl of soup.
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:39 PM   #37
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Spirit also has no health care. So when that big burly Martian kicked sand in its face, then Spirit was simply left to die. If you think Colorado is cold, try Mars. No health care. Angry Martians who hate Limbaugh. And so cold that even buzzards will not chew on your remains.

Limbaugh in Hawaii has no idea what the rest of us in the universe are living with.
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Old 01-02-2010, 06:53 PM   #38
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tw, did you resolve to have a sense of humor for the new year? That's darn funny!!
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Old 01-02-2010, 07:10 PM   #39
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Old 01-05-2010, 11:50 AM   #40
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Old 01-05-2010, 12:23 PM   #41
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Old 01-05-2010, 12:36 PM   #42
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...Limbaugh is the self proclaimed leader of his side of this mindless, greedy rabble. When Pelosi drops to her knees clutching her chest in her knit group or whatever, I'll probably have something equally caustic and offensive to post about her.
And Rush and his ilk will applaud. Especially Merc.

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/cold hearted/What possible good comes from dumping someone else's money into lifesaving care for someone making no contribution to society?/bastard/
You cold hearted bastard! My favorite skid row drunk was in poor health on 911, just down an alley from the world trade center! I was hoping he would get lifesaving care so he could be made into Soylen Green, thereby contributing to society. :p

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...The system is not as broken as Obama wants you to think.

A better system for unfunded (or underfunded) persons needing primary care would be a significant improvement.
An improvement would be a system that didn't turn middle class working folks into dead folks or poor folks.
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Old 01-05-2010, 06:14 PM   #43
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And Rush and his ilk will applaud. Especially Merc.
I know it gives you a hard on to think that I listen to Rush but really I am more of an NPR person.
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Old 01-05-2010, 06:27 PM   #44
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I know it gives you a hard on to think that I listen to Rush but really I am more of an NPR person.
I don't know how you do it, Merc. I would think your head would explode.
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Old 01-05-2010, 06:32 PM   #45
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