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MADem

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15. Mass General has banks of wheelchairs at the curb outside the hospital.

Reply to SheilaT (Reply #8)

Sun Dec 23, 2012, 03:49 AM

Dec 2012

They come in handy when you're bringing one old person to the hospital to visit another old person--sometimes, ya gotta walk a half mile and take two elevators to get to where you're going! It's easier when you can push someone in a chair rather than try to hold 'em up as they toddle painfully along.

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Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) - would right wingers repeal this, if they could ? [View all] steve2470 Dec 2012 OP

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you are correct of course steve2470 Dec 2012 #3

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I agree with you nt steve2470 Dec 2012 #11

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Wasn't it signed into law by a republican? nt geek_sabre Dec 2012 #4

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you're a good person and a good liberal ! :) nt steve2470 Dec 2012 #9

I try hard to be. SheilaT Dec 2012 #12

Mass General has banks of wheelchairs at the curb outside the hospital. MADem Dec 2012 #15

Yes--because it is expensive to retrofit buildings that predate the act. MADem Dec 2012 #14

Except ADA is not the usual BS galoshes Jun 2014 #16