Nobody's praying that millions will soon lose health care. Geez. How low do these butt hurt sore losers need to go?
What is it with this country and abortion? Are we seriously supposed to believe that we should value a fertilized human egg on the level of an adult human? How bout this: there's a fire in the fertility clinic. At the end of the corridor on the left is a tray containing 100 fertilized eggs, awaiting implantation. At the end of the corridor on the right is a colleague of yours, passed out because of the smoke. You can rescue the tray or the person. I say if you pick the tray you're a monster. ALSO: talking of fertility clinics, amazing how "okay" with them the anti-abortioners are, considering how many "people" they create and destroy on a regular basis. Where are the holocaust analogies? Where are the calls to ban fertility clinics? Could it be that the anti-abortion outcry isn't really because of a love for life but because of a desire to control women? Surely not.
Not as low as the people celebrating removal of a program that demonstrably saves lives with no plan to replace it.
No plan yet. But thanks for playing. What we do know is the current plan is a failed one and is only going to get worse if something isn't done. Not much of anything promised about it has come true.
Do you realize how pathetic that is? Republicans have been trying to get rid of the ACA for EIGHT FUCKING YEARS. And they've claimed to have a plan for just that long. But they don't. Incompetent, or just lying? For the love of God, Denny, try to sound a bit less like someone from the '50s. Of course, that kind of fits your attitudes and policies.
It's not pathetic. Opposition to anything good is. As are your twitterers and tweets. But keep 'em coming.
Where to begin. It's only murder if it says so in law. If indeed there is a law to that effect (I'm willing to believe that somewhere there is, especially as in Indiana they've got a pending bill that assigns personhood to a fertilized ovum, but I'm also willing to believe you're pulling it out of your butt.) It's entirely possible that the law got passed as a way to indicate the seriousness of the offense, but if it was challenged it would be found unconstitutional. But good job on completely failing to respond to my points. And in failing to see the difference between "moral" and "legal". And in general, in failing.
Oh, I am sure he will. They're holding onto anything, anything at this point, even if it does bite off half their fingers.
So law matters. What do you know! http://www.ncsl.org/research/health/fetal-homicide-state-laws.aspx Currently, at least 38 states have fetal homicide laws. The states include: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia;and>Wisconsin>. At least 23 states have fetal homicide laws that apply to the earliest stages of pregnancy ("any state of gestation," "conception," "fertilization" or "post-fertilization"); these are indicated below with an asterisk (*).
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1212321 The Oregon Experiment — Effects of Medicaid on Clinical Outcomes RESULTS We found no significant effect of Medicaid coverage on the prevalence or diagnosis of hypertension or high cholesterol levels or on the use of medication for these conditions. Medicaid coverage significantly increased the probability of a diagnosis of diabetes and the use of diabetes medication, but we observed no significant effect on average glycated hemoglobin levels or on the percentage of participants with levels of 6.5% or higher. Medicaid coverage decreased the probability of a positive screening for depression (−9.15 percentage points; 95% confidence interval, −16.70 to −1.60; P=0.02), increased the use of many preventive services, and nearly eliminated catastrophic out-of-pocket medical expenditures. CONCLUSIONS This randomized, controlled study showed that Medicaid coverage generated no significant improvements in measured physical health outcomes in the first 2 years, but it did increase use of health care services, raise rates of diabetes detection and management, lower rates of depression, and reduce financial strain.
Good news from my VA provider! The VA pharmacy will begin price matching drugs with Walmart and a few other big pharmacies. The VA has for years fixed the price of prescriptions for 90 days at $24 dollars. Pretty darn good for some of the real expensive stuff, but not worth a damn for the run of the mill stuff many need. I take three different prescription, each cost $10 bucks at Walmart. Yeah! Now the VA can mail this stuff to me and I need not run the 50 miles to BiMart (price matches Walmart) to get the stuff. The scuttle butt is, Trumps newly appointed Director for the VA has long wanted to change this. Bang! It's going down.
So anything the Obama administration does that you like, you attribute to Trump? And, I suppose, after January 20th, anything the Trump administration does that you don't like, will be Obama's fault? barfo
