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For women, it’s a health-scare package

By Margery Eagan
Thursday, November 19, 2009 -
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I am trying to contain my rage.

Just days ago the House of Representatives passed health care legislation at the expense of women’s constitutional rights: No funding for abortion and other reproductive health measures in government health care “reform.”

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veronicabenn19
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You can get instant full medical coverage at the lowest price from http://bit.ly/39pFJx
 
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jpgirl
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You can thank Obama for all of this Margie! if the government is going to pay for health care they better get rid of frivolous spending which in their minds must be mammograms, birth control pills, etc. You elected him, not me! so deal with it!
 
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johnson
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Since everyone knows the Republicans are against this bill, who can you blame Marge?
 
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uttahcee
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yep and an Independent Think tank ( hahah) Paid by the goverment came up with the Mamogram test done 10 years later..

So I guess it must be ok , because a Goverment Paid independent think tank said so.

Folks we don't even have the Boondoggle of the Health care bill in place, and yet you are seeing first hand in how it will operate.


You say No we haven't .. I refer you to the top of my commenmt .. concerning Mamogram now done at 50 instead of 40.. Rationalized Health Care, and we haven't seen nothing yet. But again I hope all of then defenders of the Democrats know that if this is enacted your Party gets all the credit or all the Blame.
 
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#984176 - Nov 19, 2009 2:45 AM EST

maplerover
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Isn't this just an example of what's wrong with this bill? One day you can wake up and find that the government has decided you're not covered for some medical condition. Today it's abortion services, who knows what's next? If someone in your family has AIDS, congenital birth defects, dementia, end-stage renal disease, or some other relatively rare but expensive condition, who's to say that Congress won't simply line out funding next budget season and leave you with nothing?

What's being proposed isn't insurance, where you pay into a fund while you're healthy and withdraw from it if you get sick, it's creating a pay as you go system where a new government agency decides anew every year who gets services and who doesn't. Good luck to you if you happen to get a disease that's unpopular that year.
 
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HotCarl
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Margery are you hoping that someday long, unkempt, gray hair on women over age 50 will come back in style?


Two words: Supercuts
 
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johnson
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Another thought Marge, would you be so oppossed if it were middle aged white Republican men that were going to receive less coverage?
 
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cpquidk
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the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force AKA death panels.
Will it be prostate cancer screening next? How do you like the messiah now marge that women are first
 
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Jay
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The government providing insurance that pays for abortion is a constitutional right? Whether the legislation should or should not include such payments that is a really stupid statement.
 
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