Re: Mississippi

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Ugh.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:18 AM
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I'm not sure why you're linking to a page about radiation contamination near Three-Mile Island.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:20 AM
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You've gotta admit, that ambush bug looks unhealthy.


Posted by: Cryptic ned | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:25 AM
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Although what the page says about effects of TMI on human health sounds wildly inflated.


Posted by: Lizardbreath | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:38 AM
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After the accident many people suffered from a kind of sunburn, lost their hair and teeth, and died many years later of cancer. Their suffering as a consequence of the accident is still not recognized.

Strictly speaking, this is true.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:44 AM
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4 - Indeed, cranial explosion resulting from Too Much Information is a very rare phenomenon.


Posted by: MAE | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:45 AM
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5: on the bright side, after the accident many people living close to the plant developed vastly improved muscle tone and co-ordination and acquired the ability to read.


Posted by: ajay | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:50 AM
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You've never been to central Pennsylvania.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:53 AM
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Here is what heebie intended to link to -- if anyone cares.

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/10/mississippi-burned-obamacare-112181.html#.VFDzr8eJOuY


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 11:54 AM
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9: Thanks, peep.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:01 PM
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I hope 8 is not to 6.


Posted by: MAE | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:03 PM
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Oh, damn. That's the link from LW's guest post. Hang on, I'll post it and clean this link up.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:32 PM
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More importantly, BG gets an A+ for clicking through the links. And the actual article is super interesting.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:35 PM
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13: What about me? Don't I get extra credit for linking to the correct article?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:38 PM
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Nobody likes a grade grubber.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:38 PM
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14: You barely met my exceptionally high expectations for you. Sorry!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:44 PM
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on the bright side, after the accident many people living close to the plant developed vastly improved muscle tone and co-ordination and acquired the ability to read turned green when provoked, taunted or attacked and wandered from town to town, taking odd jobs and getting into trouble.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:45 PM
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16: Clearly, my grade reflects the soft bigotry of low expectations.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:50 PM
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18: Well, it's not like you went to the University of Michigan like peep did.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 12:52 PM
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16: You sound just like my mother.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 1:04 PM
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And don't slouch.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 1:07 PM
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The article in the OP is actually more depressing that I thought. My guess is that it isn't just blind hatred of Obama, but also that they actively resist letting the feds pay for health care (Medicaid is about 80% federal money in a poor state) because they hate the poor in their state and are trying to drive them out.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 7:01 PM
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Drive them out...of life?


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 7:38 PM
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Drive the poor out of Mississippi? And have what, like a five figure population left?


Posted by: gswift | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 7:55 PM
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I didn't say it was a good plan.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 7:58 PM
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Enjoyed this Scott Lemieux tweet:

Admittedly, now that the contradictions have been fully heightened I'm sure Mississippi will have single-payer any day now.


Posted by: JP Stormcrow | Link to this comment | 10-29-14 8:30 PM
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22: The expanded Medicaid is covered 100% for some years, and then it will be 90%.

That Supreme Court decision sucks so bad.


Posted by: Bostoniangirl | Link to this comment | 10-30-14 5:43 AM
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22:I don't think it's anything as coherent as driving them out. They just hate poor people and want them to suffer.


Posted by: togolosh | Link to this comment | 10-30-14 7:57 AM
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27: Also Mississippi is so poor its federal matching rate for preexisting Medicaid is 74%, the highest in the country.


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 10-30-14 8:31 AM
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