As the Obama Health Care legislation gets ready for the legal challenge in the Supreme Court on March 26, with six hours of arguments scheduled, the longest presentation in many years, a new study demonstrates that in Republican leaning states that are strongly opposed to the health care reform, we find much worse general health conditions, a much lower state of what is called “well being”, and a growing problem of sleeplessness!
Why is this so? Clearly, when one suffers from great poverty and lack of health care, it undermines “well being” and promotes sleeplessness.
One would think such states would support health care reform, but that is not so, and particularly in the top three states on this infamous list: West Virginia, Oklahoma, and Mississippi!
Enough said, would you agree?
Hello Professor,
I am passing on some more information to consider where extreme Republican controlled State houses are proposing very dangerous anti-women legislation with regards to health care.
A committee of Arizona lawmakers has approved a bill that would prevent doctors from being sued for malpractice to allow anti-abortion doctors to keep potential disability information from parents without fear of legal retribution. The Arizona Senate committee has okayed legislation that will let doctors lie about an unborn child’s health reveled by the results of blood tests, ultrasound, CVS or Amino tests. To summarize, the Arizona bill would also ban abortion at the point when a woman often learns about a devastating diagnosis.
Before becoming law, the Arizona bill still must be considered by the full Senate and House. Let’s hope sanity prevails.
Sadly on the other hand Oklahoma recently passed a similar law and Kansas is considering the exact same legislation that would give evidence that this is an organized National Republican Platform being perpetrated against women.
But the one that tops the chart and is forever on the lunatic fringe, Georgia State Representatives which are proposing an abortion bill that would criminalize miscarriages.
How cruel would it be if a woman having to deal with the loss of a wanted pregnancy but then be brought to trial for the criminal act of having a miscarriage and have to prove that it was not caused by anything she had done to cause it?
So if you think anyone of these laws are good for our society, please feel free to vote for your Republican candidates. I on the other hand find ALL of these laws repulsive and would never inflict the application to my OWN daughters. So if it is not legally good enough for my daughters, it is not good enough for anyone’s daughters and I take great offence to think that someone has the audacity and would want to inflict these laws onto my daughters.
To conclude, War has been declared on women, and there’s no way to change the impression now among a growing percentage of women that the Republican Party is made up of knuckle dragging, religiously repressive, Neanderthals. Any responsible father with daughters should not be casting ANY Republican votes this election; and if he does, he does not deserve the blessings of having daughters in the first place. The sins will be his own.
A very well stated case, and it demonstrates just how dangerous the Republican Party has become to women, as well as their threats to workers, immigrants, racial minorities, and gays and lesbians, all fueled to a massive extent by the evangelical Christian and fanatical hard line Catholic groups who want to take us back to Puritan times in the colonial period, which the Founding Fathers clearly opposed with their promotion of separation of church and state!