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...cracks in the relationship began to show in January, when McConnell - fresh off his own surprisingly tough re-election battle - told the National Press Club that he would wait to comment on the 2010 race until Bunning "had made his intentions clear." That prompted a furious response from Bunning, who suggested McConnell has either lost his memory or his honesty. "He knew very well what my intentions are," he said in a conference call with reporters the next...
...Plumber overcharged me, Joe the Plumber broke this.' That makes national news ... I've spoken to some of my plumbing buddies in town and no one really wants to touch me right now" - is deemed by to be the fault of Ohio officials because ... because ... wait, there is no because
...primary care, CareLink assigned Pat to Dr. Carolyn Eaton, an engaging woman who has been working with the system for about a year. What alarms her most about the new patients she has seen lately, Eaton says, is how long people wait - diabetics whose feet are numb, cancer patients already in the advanced stages of the disease - before they seek treatment. "When people fall on hard times, they're kind of embarrassed," Eaton says. "Their health care ends up becoming much more expensive." (Facebook users, comment on the story below...
...Bexar County - where San Antonio is located and an estimated 30% of people under 65 do not have health coverage - has a health-care program for the uninsured that is far more generous than most in Texas and practically unique in the country. Rather than continuing to wait for the uninsured to show up in its emergency rooms, in 1997 the Bexar County hospital district established a system called CareLink for those who make 200% of the poverty line or less. (In his current job, answering queries that come in to a text- message information service, Pat earns...
...pain medications are mounting. His hospital has helped cover some expenses. Born on the Fourth of July, Young has outlived his initial prognosis; now he is hoping to persuade the Social Security Administration to grant him Medicare benefits in April, the second anniversary of his disability (recipients must wait two years to be eligible). But he has since found out he will not be eligible for Medicare until October: the two-year anniversary of receiving his first SSI check...