Rick Scott Shuts Down TB Hospital Amid "Worst Outbreak in 20 Years"
Samantha
2012/07/09 19:53:30
When you thought the tea party, gyno-governors couldn't become any crazier, here's Rick Scott.
Welcome to Sunshine State: Republican-run since 1998, tea party-controlled since 2010, and fast becoming one of the lowest-service states in the nation. Which helps explain how lawmakers shut down its only tuberculosis clinic last month, just as the worst outbreak of the infectious disease in America's recent history flared up with a vengeance in Jacksonville, Miami, and who knows where else—an outbreak that state and local officials sat on until last month, according to an investigation published by the Palm Beach Post.
Last spring, however, the GOP-dominated Legislature voted to shutter the hospital as a cost-saving measure. The state's governor, former health care executive Rick Scott, signed the bill in April and even pressed for AG Holley's closure to be moved up six months; the facility was permanently shuttered on July 2.
But what was Scott thinking? According to the Palm Beach Post exposé, AG Holley's closure came after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention had warned the governor and his state health office in a report that tuberculosis was making a big comeback in the state.
Welcome to Sunshine State: Republican-run since 1998, tea party-controlled since 2010, and fast becoming one of the lowest-service states in the nation. Which helps explain how lawmakers shut down its only tuberculosis clinic last month, just as the worst outbreak of the infectious disease in America's recent history flared up with a vengeance in Jacksonville, Miami, and who knows where else—an outbreak that state and local officials sat on until last month, according to an investigation published by the Palm Beach Post.
Last spring, however, the GOP-dominated Legislature voted to shutter the hospital as a cost-saving measure. The state's governor, former health care executive Rick Scott, signed the bill in April and even pressed for AG Holley's closure to be moved up six months; the facility was permanently shuttered on July 2.
But what was Scott thinking? According to the Palm Beach Post exposé, AG Holley's closure came after the Center for Disease Control and Prevention had warned the governor and his state health office in a report that tuberculosis was making a big comeback in the state.
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Why was Che never given a Fair Trial? they Captured him why didnt they put him on Trial
no instead they Executed him with no Trial
Che Guevara moments before his execution.
''Che was executed in cold blood on October 9, 1967 by a U.S. lead death squad that captured him in Bolivia. Then, as now, he had emerged as a prominent symbol of self-sacrifice, armed struggle, internationalism and uncompromising opposition to U.S. domination. His death stands as a glaring example of the role the U.S. and its agents play in the brutal repression of humanity’s highest aspirations. The torturers of the CIA were not invented on 9/11 — but have a very long and bloody history.'
is that better
Problem is the Liberals want to take America all the way back to to 1930, the places of death called Sanitariums ..................
Edited: Aurora, thank you for blocking me; I was becoming tired of reading your lies and observing your refusal to accept facts. Of course, we know conservatives hate facts, science and reason.