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Monday, March 31, 2008 12:00 AM

Barack Obama, working-class hero?

On a bus tour through Pennsylvania, Obama tries to impress blue-collar white voters. He'll need them to keep the state close in April -- or to win it in November.

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  • Monday, March 31, 2008 05:16 PM

    @RealityCounts

    ok, first, your stuff would be covered in any system. an MRI even with puffed up price is only a few hundred - no justification to not allow it. as would the spinal fusion operation (or whatever is required). you are a (relatively) young man with terrible pain. this is not a half-million dollar transplant operation on an eighty year old - yes, at seventy nine and a half i might very well thing differently. hell maybe everything can be done for everybody - people just say it's not possible.
    what is important is finding a doctor who will talk to you for more than 10 minutes - actually listen - and most of all, if one test shows something wrong, another more precise test is then done. most doctors just listen to symptoms, treat them, and that's that, next, please!
    Aycharaych it is online discussions or nothing for more than just you - and i have a loving family. but they get bored hearing the same old stuff and, worse, if THEY get upset, *I* get upset. HOWEVER if YOU (or some other unknown folks) get upset) umm, who really cares? (i think that's the reason we are so rude online - however it IS exhilarating, if sometimes hurtful)

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