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BACKGROUND War hero and onetime presidential candidate from a Plains state...
There are real health risks in this new tightfistedness. Since there's little or no scheduled follow-up, the ED is not the best place to get general medical care. In many states, ED doctors are concerned that HMOs require trauma patients, once they're stabilized, to be moved to an in-plan hospital too soon. And specialists in California, fed up with managed care's unwillingness to compensate them fully, are rebelling against providing voluntary, on-call backup, a critical component of the ED system. To keep them on duty, some hospitals have to fork out $1,000 daily...
...could cause even greater pain for both EDs and ambulance services. "The HMOs and the government have taken the fat out of the system, which used to cover the cost of emergency care," says Dr. Leo Berkenbile, who runs the ED at Verdugo Hills Hospital in Glendale, Calif., the state where EMS is most under siege...
...really doing was signaling their resistance to civil rights. But that's ancient history--even Strom Thurmond campaigns for black votes these days! What's the point of keeping it up there? It's costing South Carolina big bucks because civil rights groups have organized a boycott of the state until the flag comes down. According to polls, 60% of South Carolinians, black and white, want to get rid of it. Even Governor Jim Hodges said last week he wants to move it from the statehouse to a nearby Confederate memorial. Continuing to fly it is STUPID...
...Maybe they need psychological counseling, like that baseball player John Rocker," mused the Kingfish. "He hasn't said anything crazier than the vile remark from state senator Arthur Ravenel, who called the N.A.A.C.P. the 'National Association of Retarded People' for opposing the flag. The next day he apologized to retarded people, but he hasn't told the N.A.A.C.P. he was sorry. Talk about STUPID...