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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts) Fri Apr 13, 2012, 02:09 PM Apr 2012

Thousands of Alabama nursing home patients about to be thrown to the street [View all]

because of massive Medicaid cuts in the republican budget, and that's just the beginning. Hospitals will suffer, emergency rooms will become overcrowded, doctors will leave the state, and who knows how many will die as a result of this. Republican death panels are here!!

http://www.leftinalabama.com/diary/9566/rep-greg-wrens-thin-skin-on-medicaid-cuts

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Thousands of Alabama nursing home patients about to be thrown to the street [View all] Elwood P Dowd Apr 2012 OP

Republican Family Values. Cut taxes for the rich. Screw the poor and elderly Gibby Apr 2012 #1

Patient dumping KansDem Apr 2012 #2

Personally, I'd move the people into Represenatative Wren's office PA Democrat Apr 2012 #3

Now there's an idea-- felix_numinous Apr 2012 #5

Reaganomics liberal N proud Apr 2012 #4

Where are the physicians' voices in all of this? felix_numinous Apr 2012 #6

Don't go looking to our 'doctors' for support or advocacy. BlueIris Apr 2012 #7

I worked along side some awesome doctors and surgeons felix_numinous Apr 2012 #10

"We're going to have blood on our hands." Elwood P Dowd Apr 2012 #8

How awfully nice HeiressofBickworth Apr 2012 #9

It is brutal and we might as well go back to the lovuian Apr 2012 #13

That shit isn't going to past the Senate. YellowRubberDuckie Apr 2012 #11

The Republicans play book and if people want this so be it lovuian Apr 2012 #12

I fear this is future if we let the Republicans have their way. DCBob Apr 2012 #14