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    Rural hospital closings cause mortality rates to rise, study finds

    More than 100 rural hospitals have closed in the United States since 2010 and another 430 are at risk of closing, which a new study says could have life-or-death implications for rural communities.

    University of Washington researchers examined 92 rural hospital closings in California from 1995 to 2011. They found that while the closings of urban hospitals had no impact on their surrounding communities, rural closings caused their populations — which have limited access to health care and other services — to see mortality rates rise 5.9 percent.

    That could have real implications for communities across the United States given that 113 hospitals have already closed since 2010 and more face financial difficulties, according to data compiled by the University of North Carolina.

    “Rural closings increase travel times for patients, and lead to outmigration of health care professionals post-closure, severely dismembering patient access to care and exacerbating social disparities in health outcomes,” researchers Kritee Gujral and Anirban Basu wrote in their study.
    This concerns me regarding any version of a Health Care Plan. This is something that needs to be fixed.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tami View Post
    Did Barack Obama Deserve the Nobel Prize?

    President Obama, at the time, did not feel he deserved the prize but was in an awkward situation. In the end, he had no choice but to accept it.

    One thing the prize did ultimately end up doing, is driving Trump crazy. We all know that Trump has no concept of diplomacy, that he has allowed the Diplomatic corp to disintegrate through either not filling needed positions, driving people out, or bring people in who were far from qualified.

    Yet even he realized that, if he ever wanted to prove himself better than Obama, he had to also win the Nobel Prize, and to do that, he had to do something Peaceful.

    Trump probably felt that it would be very easy to negotiate a truce between the Taliban and the Afghanistan government, dismissing the fact that, if it had been that easy, the war woudl have ended years and years ago.

    So, with an ignorance of diplomacy, a staff who was equally ignorant, a refusal to listen to anyone who does know about teh situation there, and his usual 'I can do anything, I aam the chosen one' attitude, Trump sent his people to dive right in.

    The negotiations weren't going well, so trump had the bright idea to bring everyone to Camp David, in early September, around the time of the 9/11 memorial day.

    He forgot the part that
    a. It was 9/11
    b. The Taliban were involved in that
    c. The Negotiations weren't going well
    d. The Taliban have no interest in photo ops with the US President.
    It's the same foolish rationale that has Trump kissing Kim Jong Un's porky ass, the chance to go down in history---and win that Nobel Prize---as being the president who denuclearized North Korea.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mister Mets View Post
    What type of candidates would do well in a system without dark money?
    Candidates with scruples who'll put public wellfare before corporate profit. Candidates who legistlate according to their conscience rather than to aquire a payout from a Conservative Christian super-pac.
    Why do you ask questions you already know the answer to?

    Quote Originally Posted by jetengine View Post
    Realistically the issue is that America kicked over a government with no plan to fix it, assuming they'd do it themselves. If you want to utterly remove the Taliban your going to have to rebuild Iraq and Afghanistan into first world nations that love the USA. Thats going to take ALOT of money, time and energy. Ironically all of which create jobs.
    Frankly, I doubt any lasting change can take place in that region without some sort of catastrophic event. We're talking about changing century old paradigms and that sort of thing only happens when an entire structure is smashed and rebuilt from the ground up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChadH View Post
    Candidates with scruples who'll put public wellfare before corporate profit. Candidates who legistlate according to their conscience rather than to aquire a payout from a Conservative Christian super-pac.
    Why do you ask questions you already know the answer to?



    Frankly, I doubt any lasting change can take place in that region without some sort of catastrophic event. We're talking about changing century old paradigms and that sort of thing only happens when an entire structure is smashed and rebuilt from the ground up.
    You sure about that? Your premise implies that elected officials are only doing what they do because it’s lucrative. And who’s definition of public good are we going by?
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    Quote Originally Posted by ChadH View Post
    Candidates with scruples who'll put public wellfare before corporate profit. Candidates who legistlate according to their conscience rather than to aquire a payout from a Conservative Christian super-pac.
    Why do you ask questions you already know the answer to?



    Frankly, I doubt any lasting change can take place in that region without some sort of catastrophic event. We're talking about changing century old paradigms and that sort of thing only happens when an entire structure is smashed and rebuilt from the ground up.
    Afghanistan has not been like this for centuries.

    This is Kabul in 1972:


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    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelMan View Post
    Afghanistan has not been like this for centuries.

    This is Kabul in 1972:
    Also Kabul 1972



    Kabul Main Street 1972 by holmertz
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    Sarah Palin's husband wants out.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Moon Ronin View Post
    Also Kabul 1972



    Kabul Main Street 1972 by holmertz
    Kentucky, 1972:



    Your pic does not mean that the Kabul of my pic did not exist.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelMan View Post
    Kentucky, 1972:

    Your pic does not mean that the Kabul of my pic did not exist.
    That is why I said Also Kabul 1972 not that it didn't exist just that it was not a real depiction of what Afghanistan was like in. I've been there, the picture you posted is real is just that in not what the majority of women where like.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moon Ronin View Post
    That is why I said Also Kabul 1972 not that it didn't exist just that it was not a real depiction of what Afghanistan was like in. I've been there, the picture you posted is real is just that in not what the majority of women where like.
    The point is that the women were free to do that, they went to school, they studied. That there was diversity in the society does not change that, it makes it even more amazing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelMan View Post
    The point is that certain women were free to do that, they went to school, they studied. That there was controlled diversity in the society does not change that, it makes it even more amazing.
    and Fixed it

    Its more UAE than NYC
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    Commerce Chief Threatened Firings at NOAA After Trump’s Hurricane Tweets, Sources Say

    WASHINGTON — The Secretary of Commerce threatened to fire top employees at NOAA on Friday after the agency’s Birmingham office contradicted President Trump’s claim that Hurricane Dorian might hit Alabama, according to three people familiar with the discussion.

    That threat led to an unusual, unsigned statement later that Friday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration disavowing the office’s own position that Alabama was not at risk. The reversal caused widespread anger within the agency and drew criticism from the scientific community that NOAA, a division of the Commerce Department, had been bent to political purposes.

    Officials at the White House and the Commerce Department declined to comment on administration involvement in the NOAA statement.
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    It blows my mind that this story refuses to die, and all because Trump got that forecast wrong and NOAA bent over backwards to placate him instead supporting the Birmingham office.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SquirrelMan View Post
    Afghanistan has not been like this for centuries.

    This is Kabul in 1972:

    IMO, conservatism is the problem.

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