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Omaha Steve Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:37 PM
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Limbaugh Doesn't Get IT

http://www.seiu.org/2009/02/any-time-you-read-something.php


3:42 PM Eastern - February 10, 2009
Limbaugh Doesn't Get IT
By Jessica Kutch

Any time you read something as ludicrous as "the stimulus is dangerous to your health," you know it's time to get some fresh air.

An opinion piece by Betsy McCaughey on Bloomberg.com says just that - and, thankfully, caregivers are stepping up to set the record straight.

Health care professionals nationwide are writing to their newspapers today to refute claims by McCaughey and-get this-Rush Limbaugh on two provisions in the stimulus package: comparative effectiveness research and health IT. Both are designed to provide health care professionals with objective, up-to-date information on treatments, tests and procedures available to them.

So why are opponents suddenly crying wolf?

Because this latest partisan flap isn't about your health care. It's not about electronic health records or comparative health research. No, this is about politics. It's a desperate attempt to turn practical, cost-cutting provisions into a news media boogeyman.

Even those in the Bush Administration understood the need for health IT. In 2006 the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality / HHS (led by Bush appointee Mike Leavitt) conducted a study (.pdf file) and found tremendous potential for improvements to our health care system through the use of health IT.

FULL story at link.

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Uben Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:40 PM
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1. Limbaugh is a drug addict....
...he doesn't get anything!
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:41 PM
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2. Having experienced opiates first hand, let me tell you
HE IS TALKING OUT OF HIS ASS!!!
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pacalo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:44 PM
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3. It depends on which "IT" we're talking about...
I bet he gets plenty of "it" dooded up like this:



Or maybe not.

:rofl:
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Bolo Boffin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 07:46 PM
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4. Not unless he just took Viagra and has a $50 in his sweaty little paw. n/t
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Earth Bound Misfit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:20 PM
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5. When I first read the subject line
I thought: there's a Newsflash. Water is wet. Sun is hot. Cheney still a Dick. Limpballs doesn't get it.

Oh. Then I got it. IT. Limpballs doesn't get IT. He doesn't get IT. I T.

Now I got IT.

Or is it Now I got it.

Oh forget it.
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EC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-10-09 08:31 PM
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6. Well, wouldn't this in effect certail "perscription shopping"?
Which is what Rush did for his addiction...got scripts from several doctors...but with his record on a national data-base, oops...he couldn't con the Doc's anymore...
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