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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 09:42 AM
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“Would she Gov. Brewer put her own children’s lives up to balance her budget?"
......... as Brewer and the GOP-led legislature waffle over the value of human lives, two more people — including 23-year-old leukemia patient Courtney Parham — join the 98 others standing before the Brewer death panel. Because the state has so far refused to pay for her transplant, Courtney’s family “must raise somewhere between $400-$800 thousand dollars for a transplant, or their daughter will die.” KGUN 9 in Tucson reports:

But, one thing that didn’t come back was the insurance. The company dropped Courtney because she was too sick to be a full-time student, which forced her on to the Arizona Healthcare Cost Containment System, or AHCCCS. And, then Governor Brewer dropped more bad news; no more transplants for patients like Courtney, all to help balance the budget. The Straw-Parham family told KGUN9 they must raise somewhere between $400-$800 thousand dollars for a transplant, or their daughter will die.

“Would she Gov. Brewer put her own children’s lives up to balance her budget? I don’t think so!” said Straw angrily.

“My mother isn’t looking at me like a dollar sign. But, in this situation, she sort of has to look at me like a dollar sign,” said Courtney.


http://thinkprogress.org/2011/02/19/brewer-corporate-tax-cut-transplant/
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atreides1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 09:57 AM
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1. Brewer doesn't have to
Brewer and the Republicans throughout this country are doing the same thing that was done by the Nazi government...only instead of putting people in camps or sending them to "hospitals" they are de funding any and every program that aids the weakest members of American society.

Add to that the attack on unions... and it's not really a far stretch! As for the Tea Baggers...these are the SA the Brownshirts...the "Grassroots"...and I think that when the time comes they will share the same fate...maybe not as violent and end as their predecessors...but an end none the less!



This of course is my own opinion...
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 10:20 AM
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2. Can a being of pure darkness have human children?
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dkf Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 10:24 AM
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3. Can't she be put on her parents plan? What happened to the ACA?
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