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Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:05 AM Dec 2016

Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported

PBS had a report about that, when one former miner can barely speak but still, this person would love to go back if he could get a lung transplant

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/rate-black-lung-disease-among-miners-may-10-times-higher-reported/

These, I suppose, are the jobs that they want back?

And I am not even going to go into the cost of caring for these people. Oh, it does says that: there is in the Affordable Care Act a specific benefit for coal miners with black lung that makes it easier for them to get black lung benefits. So, if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, it will be back to the old days when it was much more difficult to get benefits in the first place.

But, hey, they voted for Trump and they want to repeal "Obamacare."


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Rate of black lung disease among miners may be 10 times higher than reported (Original Post) question everything Dec 2016 OP
I'm sure trump will help them coolbreeze77 Dec 2016 #1
But, hey, they voted for Trump and they want to repeal "Obamacare." LenaBaby61 Dec 2016 #3
life is full of choices eh? nt msongs Dec 2016 #2

LenaBaby61

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3. But, hey, they voted for Trump and they want to repeal "Obamacare."
Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:37 AM
Dec 2016

Yeah, that'll show that mean, evil, email/CGI-loving she-devil Hillary Clinton that we can stand and DIE on our own two feet under a president tRump .....

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