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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

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2. We only have legislation such as EMLA (that forces hospitals to provide emergency medical

Reply to merrily (Reply #1)

Mon Sep 15, 2014, 07:41 AM

Sep 2014

treatment to the indigent) because people like Christie knew that they couldn't get re-elected if they came out and said people should be left to die in the streets if they couldn't pay for healthcare. But slow starvation or dying of hypothermia is slow enough that they can still get re-elected by killing people off that much more slowly.

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Humans who can stand for other humans to be hungry long term are shits. merrily Sep 2014 #1

We only have legislation such as EMLA (that forces hospitals to provide emergency medical Erich Bloodaxe BSN Sep 2014 #2

Akin to "death panels," perhaps, only much worse because merrily Sep 2014 #3

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And just when I thought I couldn't think any less of Christie. Enthusiast Sep 2014 #4

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