NP here, and I have a brain. The incidence of cervical cancer per adult woman per year is about 1 in 10,000. It is very difficult to persuade someone to "prioritize" an expense of a few hundred dollars per year, with those odds, even if as a group it makes sense for them to get screened. After all we are going to pay for the treatment for all of those cancers that aren't caught. |
Thank you for making very clear that you've bought into the right-wing caricature of the poor as lazy slobs who buy whatever they want and then complain when they can't buy stuff they need. Just out of curiosity, when you think of "poor person" in your mind, is the image of a "blahhhh" person as well? Because guess what, the majority of poor people in the U.S. are white. Most of them are working their asses off just to scrape by, and many, if not the majority, are single mothers. The social mobility that has fueled our economy for so long is decreasing, as is the middle class. But good job showing off your ignorance and flippant attitude. Also, you seem to have no idea how Medicaid works either. Got a shit job that pays $8 an hour? Then you're already making too much money to qualify for Medicaid. So much for the credibility of your entire idiotic post. |
Oh, I'd like to add, Medicaid probably pays for more of the working poor now because of Obamacare. |
Medicaid covers people, on average, making only 45% of federal poverty guidelines, or about $5,000 a year. Pregnant women get covered at higher rates, but only while pregnant. Then they lose coverage. There are a LOT of people making over $5,000 a year who still can't afford PAP smears and HPV tests.
Thank Obama Care for increasing Medicad eligibility in 2014 to 133% FPG. There is a CRITICAL need to make adequate health care accessible to everyone. Planned Parenthood helps a lot. |
Incoherent ramblings... let me guess, are you a redneck? |
Thank you. You have just made the case for Obamacare. Anyone who claims they can't afford health insurance should be told to prioritize Way to go. Clap. Clap. Clap. |
New poster. ARE YOU KIDDING? You have a strange sense of responsibility. ![]() ![]() ![]() |
+1 for accomplishing the slow clap via typing, and another +1 for your substantive point. |
And we have a winner! |
Yet, the only people who have actually killed a living, breathing human being are those who oppose the rights of women to make choices about their own reproductive lives. Hypocrites are what you all are. You don't care about children. If you did, you would do something about the hundreds and thousands who go to bed every night with a full belly of food. If you cared so much, you would not be for a political party who wants to cut aid to feeding, clothing and educating these children that you yourselves don't give a darn about. You are all a bunch of zealots who are two points right of the jihadist Taliban. You just call yourself by a different name, but you share the same tactics and beliefs. Controlling women, for they must submit. |
Yeah, you probably believe that you can't get pregnant if you are raped because women have magical juices which will stop a rapist from fertilizing an egg. |
Nope -- not kidding at all. Making an informed medical decision based on my doctor's advice is taking responsibility for my reproductivity. But here's the key point: I don't give a shit what you think about my medical choices. It's not your business. Find another hobby. |
You have got to be fucking kidding me. All the murders that MEN have committed over the history of humanity. All the wars MEN are committing even today. All the rapes, murders, military actions, collateral damage. The freaking Taliban is shooting school children... and you are getting on your fucking soapbox about WOMEN murderers?????
When you show the same level of concern for all the ACTUAL PEOPLE |
..... then you can have a say in what I do with the bloody mess on my maxi pad. Until that day I am sick and tired of listening to you people wring your hands about the unborn.
SAVE THE BORN!!! |
Why don't you show a picture of that Pakistani girl bleeding all over her school bus? Why don't you show a picture of an African militia bayonetting pregnant women and throwing the baby into a port-o-let? (Happened). Why don't you show drawings of accused "witches" being burned like human tallow at the stake?
Why is it that only this horror (and yes it's horrible) deserves your angst? I never had an abortion, even during an unwanted pregnancy. Your comments about having "fun" are offensive. I have never seen a woman laugh about abortion. Seen and heard of many men laughing while they kill and torment people. Having an abortionis a tragedy and most women see it that way. I think it's worth askign why when women end a (developing) life it excites such outrage. Men hunt women in our world like deer in the forest. What are you doing to preach and protest about that? |