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So what jt? He was an American citizen, a child, born here, not a freaking lazy foreign born gimmethat, or a worthless adult able bodied gimmethat like all the slops are today. A lot of things used to be free at the health department too, that you have to pay for now if you have jobs. Go in there today and see all the freaking mexicans sitting around waiting for their handouts, and see what you have to pay for today. They'll even give hookers all the free condoms they need to do business, and the tax payers can foot the bill. McConnell's story is what I pay taxes for, not the grown up, lazy, able-bodied, good for nothing, gimmethat slops that we are having to support today. 

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jtdavis posted:

Mitch McConnell had polio as a child and the government paid for his treatment and rehab. Now he wants to take government assistance away from those in need. 

You have no idea of what's going on in rewriting this healthcare
law. You have no idea what McConnell wants or thinks. 
 
The Feds should be written out of it and put back into the hands
of those, the only ones, who know what to do with it. It should've
never happened in the first and I'm not telling anyone why obarry
did it in the first place.
The Feds should be written out of it and put back into the hands
of those, the only ones, who know what to do with it. It should've
never happened in the first and I'm not telling anyone why obarry
did it in the first place.
Kraven, by posting that, I can tell that you are completely ignorant of the health insurance problem before Obama care.
jtdavis posted:
The Feds should be written out of it and put back into the hands
of those, the only ones, who know what to do with it. It should've
never happened in the first and I'm not telling anyone why obarry
did it in the first place.
Kraven, by posting that, I can tell that you are completely ignorant of the health insurance problem before Obama care.
Well then Jeff, maybe you could tell me the options for healthcare
before Barry the butcher took it over, mainly why did Barry (Feds)
want in under government control. Expose my ignorance, but
remember, actual medical people read this crap.  
jtdavis posted:

Best, do you think he went to the health department for treatment and rehab?

Stupid question that shows you have no reading comprehension. So he got free health care. So what? That's how things were until third world trash and lazy demoslop gimmethats trash overloaded the system.

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A lot of things used to be free at the health department too"

Too means also jt. In addition to the health care McConnell got, a lot of things used to be free at the HD "back then".

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Ever heard of the March of Dimes jt?

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The polio years

The March of Dimes has always approached its mission with a spirit of adventure. Born on the eve of World War II as the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis (NFIP), the Foundation achieved an instantaneous popularity that reflected the contemporary popularity of its founder, Franklin D. Roosevelt. FDR’s polio disability – he was never able to walk again on his own after contracting polio – translated into a systematic program to uncover the mysteries of polio and to lend a helping hand to Americans suffering from the disease. The war years were a time of titanic struggle, and efforts to launch the March of Dimes were boosted by radio, Hollywood, and the personal appeal of the president. Basil O’Connor, a close associate of FDR through his entire presidency, became the leading light of the March of Dimes for over three decades, and his immediate task in 1938 was to build an organization that could quickly respond to polio epidemics anywhere in the nation. As president of the NFIP, Basil O’Connor set out at once to create a network of local chapters that could raise money and deliver aid – an adventurous program that paid off substantially just as polio was on the rise.

Little was known about polio then, but the scientific committees established by the NFIP to fund virus research found opportunities to assist the war effort by investigating diseases affecting those in uniform. In 1943, the NFIP awarded a grant to the U.S. Army Neurotropic Virus Commission to study polio in North Africa; Albert Sabin, MD was dispatched to conduct parts of this study. The end of the war ushered in new complexities to effective fund-raising, though FDR was memorialized on the U.S. dime in 1946 thanks to a polio patients’ club of the Norfolk Hospital Association Chapter of the NFIP. This assured the remembrance of FDR’s intrinsic connection to the March of Dimes in perpetuity. March of Dimes-funded medical research accelerated as the patient aid program was taxed to its limits, particularly in the huge polio epidemic of 1949. Entering the 1950s, the 3,100 chapters of the NFIP operated almost completely by volunteers who proved that the March of Dimes was a grass-roots movement, captured nicely in the ubiquitous slogan

“Join the March of Dimes.”

The NFIP closed in on a solution to polio thanks to not only countless medical researchers supported by March of Dimes grants, but also to energetic staffers like Elaine Whitelaw, who cultivated volunteers nationwide, and Charles Bynum, an African-American educator who recognized that polio care was also a civil rights issue. The greatest promise, however, came in a breakthrough at the University of Pittsburgh by a young physician whose name soon became a household word as a symbol of hope. A March of Dimes grantee, Jonas Salk, MD, pressed forward from a routine virus typing project to the creation of a vaccine that spelled the end of polio in a matter of years. Tested in a massive field trial in 1954 that involved 1.8 million schoolchildren known as “polio pioneers,” the Salk vaccine was licensed for use on April 12, 1955, the very day it was announced to the news media as “safe, effective, and potent.” Many had labored diligently to reveal how poliovirus functioned and how to stop it, but no accomplishment seemed as dramatic and instantly newsworthy as the Salk vaccine. From this point, polio declined rapidly from tens of thousands of new cases per year to a mere handful; a fearsome disease had been put to rest by the sustained efforts of millions of volunteers, coordinated by the NFIP.

http://www.marchofdimes.org/mi...-march-of-dimes.aspx

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jtdavis posted:

Kraven, the price, and how it was going up. Something had to be done

And jacking up the price of insurance for the healthy and increasing taxes on insurance plans and medical equipment which further increases prices sure wasn't the cure. I can't see how Obamadidn'tcare can be changed without a whole lot of pain and the republican plans are really are just modifications of the idiot ACA law that can barely pass muster with the Budget Reconciliation rules:

  http://www.cbpp.org/research/f...udget-reconciliation

I'm not sure, but it might be best if the current law just dies in flames as a warning to everyone that goobermint can't change the reality of markets.

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