Posts Tagged ‘health care’
Heirs to Fortuyn?
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| A small plaque marks the spot where Dutch politician Pim Fortuyn was gunned down.
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| Heirs to Fortuyn? |
| City Journal | Apr 24, 2009 | Bruce Bawer |
| When the New Left emerged in the 1960s, something else was born that would mark American elites for decades thereafter: the notion that social-democratic Western Europe was far superior to the capitalist United States. Pity the poor American professor whose every junket to a European academic conference was marred by his continental colleagues’ sneering over cocktails about his nation’s shame du jour—Vietnam, Watergate, Iraq—or about American racism, capital punishment, or health care. For much read more |
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You kill me
Rafael Garcia struggles for his life — and justice — from Room 389. (Photo: Justin Parr/San Antonio Current)
You kill me
Rafael Garcia in his own words
For the last year, Rafael Garcia, who qualifies for tens of thousands in assistance through Medicaid, has gone completely without the home-care nurses and physical therapists he needs. The home-health agencies say they don’t have the staff to provide for him, but it’s starting to look more like retribution for his mother’s whistleblowing.
Dec. 10, 2008, San Antonio Current, By Greg Harman
From his elevated bed at Methodist Children’s, Rafael is vacillating between dreams of becoming the first wheelchair-bound NBA coach and the compounding reality of the genetic disorder that has landed him in the hospital with pneumonia for the second time in a month.
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