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TalkingDog

(9,001 posts) Sun Jul 21, 2013, 11:36 AM Jul 2013

Because, you know... poor people. And poor people having teh secks.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-05-06/news/9905050591_1_medicaid-patients-epidurals-medicare-patients

Nub: "Nobody willingly gets a hernia or cancer. There two young women willingly engaged in sex, and sex led to their pregnancies."

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Medicaid Patients Aren't Entitled To Epidurals (Original Post) TalkingDog Jul 2013 OP

That's more than they deserve. TalkingDog Jul 2013 #2

I bet the author of the letter is a 'good Christian woman.' Shrike47 Jul 2013 #3

(49,284 posts)

1. Yeah, they can just pull up a bootstrap and bite down on it when it gets painful.

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 12:45 PM

Jul 2013

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2. That's more than they deserve.

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 01:08 PM

Jul 2013

also sarcasm.

(6,913 posts)

3. I bet the author of the letter is a 'good Christian woman.'

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 01:13 PM

Jul 2013

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4. The article on which this is based is 14 years old and doesn't say it is legal

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 01:24 PM

Jul 2013

for an anesthesiologist to refuse to give an epidural to a Medicaid patient. In fact, it suggests that its illegal.
http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1999-04-12/news/9904120185_1_epidural-pain-medicaid

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5. is this just some right winger's opinion, or something medicaid actually does?

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 01:26 PM

Jul 2013