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In reply to the discussion: Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI [View all]LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)7. Just finished a book called "American Pain" that talked about the pill mills in Florida
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Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI [View all]
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
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Just finished a book called "American Pain" that talked about the pill mills in Florida
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#7
Well, that's true too, just....reading this book feels like another piece of
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#4
Most of the book isn't about the Medicaid fraud, only one chapter, the rest was
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#9
That's what we see in MT too. No jobs, no hope, drugs and booze fill the void.
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#20
Some of them vote against these benefits when the benefits go to non-whites. eom
guillaumeb
Dec 2016
#13
I think many people think of Ohio as Cleveland and Cincinnati, not the rural southern part.
guillaumeb
Dec 2016
#32
The chapter was on Portsmouth, Ohio. About the clinic Dr. David Procter set up and
LiberalLoner
Dec 2016
#37