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babylonsister

(171,056 posts)
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 10:50 AM Sep 2013

Declined Medicaid Cited In Hospital's Closing (NC)

And now the people of North Carolina will begin to pay the price for their extreme ideology: the decision by far right lawmakers to TURN DOWN MEDICAID EXPANSION and their refusal to support the Affordable Care Act's health exchange program has caused a hospital in Eastern NC to close -- throwing 100 people out of work and robbing a community of a vital healthcare option. The graphic shows an article from the N&O today. Please Share. Check out the story next to it for the far right's idea of "health education" while you are at it: $800,000 of vitally needed funds is going to teaching teenagers abstinence ... For more on the hospital closing, see this Daily Reflector article: http://www.reflector.com/news/vidant-closing-pungo-hospital-2150983

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Declined Medicaid Cited In Hospital's Closing (NC) (Original Post) babylonsister Sep 2013 OP
The abstinence article begs a question House of Roberts Sep 2013 #1

House of Roberts

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1. The abstinence article begs a question
Fri Sep 6, 2013, 11:17 AM
Sep 2013

How do you teach abstinence to fourth graders without first teaching them what you want them to abstain from?

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