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Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'

Yes, even factoring in the costs of plane tickets and hotels, traveling abroad for high quality health care (guess where many of the physicians and nurses practicing in the United States trained) costs less than health care in the United States. It seems you are the one who needs to "pull your head out": http://medicaltour ismassociation.com / http://www.cnn.com /2009/HEALTH/03/26 /medical.tourism/  (2 hrs ago | post #3172)

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In book, Palin chides McCain campaign, says Couric was 'badgering'

If "the campaign by the Kenyan[sic] and ACORN to intimidate bankers is well documented", then you should be able to produce some evidence.  (2 hrs ago | post #123)

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Lifelong dividends

Among industrialized nations, the United States has the worst record for preventable deaths, until you consider people aged 65 and above - for people 65 and above, the rate of preventable deaths is no higher than it is in other countries. Why? Oh, yeah, everyone 65 and above has health insurance, Medicare. Sure, everyone dies, but, the issue is PREVENTABLE deaths; Americans die from causes that could have been treated successfully had they had access to preventive care and early treatment. It is acceptable for Americans to die of incurable illnesses; it is quite another thing for someone to die needlessly, from an illness that could have been treated.  (13 hrs ago | post #42)

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Creationists in Minneapolis/St. Paul give Darwin new intro

Love it! Thanks for a good laugh.  (17 hrs ago | post #151)

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Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'

http://ajph.aphapu blications.org/cgi /content/abstract/ AJPH.2008.157685v1  (17 hrs ago | post #3152)

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Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'

You indulge in name-calling like a grade school bully. No, except in a very few cases, people don't travel abroad for experimental treatments, they travel abroad for the same treatments that would be available to them in the United States, if only they could afford to pay for them here.  (17 hrs ago | post #3151)

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Lifelong dividends

Copied and pasted from my post: "Yep and the world has not imploded because we don't have government mandated health care either." For the 44,000 Americans who die every year because they don't have health insurance, and for their loved ones, the world does "implode ". Please note, I wrote "year", not "day".  (17 hrs ago | post #40)

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Islamist Terrorist Murders 13 On U.S. Soil

To see how false this claim is, just check out the Classified Information Procedures Act, a 1980 law that requires, federal courts to undertake extreme measures to ensure the concealment of classified information, even including concealment from the defendant himself.  Section 3 provides:  "U pon motion of the United States, the court shall issue an order to protect against the disclosure of any classified information disclosed by the United States to any defendant in any criminal case in a district court of the United States."  Sec tion 9 required the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to consult with the Attorney General and Defense Secretary to develop rules to carry out the Act's requirements, and the resulting guidelines provide for measures so extreme that it's hard to believe they can exist in a judicial system that it supposed to be open and transparent. Even during the Bush years, numerous defendants accused of terrorist acts were tried and convicted in federal courts -- John Walker Lindh, Richard Reid, Zacarias Moussaoui, Ali al-Marri, Jose Padilla.  Those spewing the latest right-wing scare tactic (Osama bin Laden will learn everything if we have trials!) cannot point to a single piece of classified information that was disclosed as a result of any of these trials.  If that were a legitimate fear, wouldn't they be able to?  Like most American institutions, our federal court system is empowered to shield from public disclosure anything the government claims is secret. Just look at the extreme measures invoked in the Ghailani case to see how true that is.  (Yesterday | post #40)

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Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'

Consider the facts: Medical tourism, that is, Americans traveling to countries like Mexico, India and Singapore for affordable health care, is a booming and growing business, and, 44,000 Americans die every year because they do not have health insurance.  (Yesterday | post #3141)

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NY town decides to re-Christmas its holiday parade

Is this you, Bob? http://www.theonio n.com/content/news /area_man_passiona te_defender_of  (Yesterday | post #51)

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NY town decides to re-Christmas its holiday parade

The most appropriate reply to this comment: LOL.  (Yesterday | post #50)

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Palin says Obama's health care plan is 'evil'

Yes, I realize that - I live in Michele Bachmann's district, after all.  (Yesterday | post #3132)

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Creationists in Minneapolis/St. Paul give Darwin new intro

No evolutionary scientist will tell you that "humans used to be fish"; that remark demonstrates a profound misunderstanding of evolution. Humans and fish share a common ancestor.  (Yesterday | post #115)

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Lifelong dividends

Yep and the world has not imploded because we don't have government mandated health care either." For the 44,000 Americans who die every year because they don't have health insurance, and for their loved ones, the world does "implode ".  (Yesterday | post #34)