Mrs. Bush Pushes for Iraq Medical Center

[bluedog]

Mrs. Bush Pushes for Iraq Medical Center
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WASHINGTON - Laura Bush is pushing a $100 million children's medical center she hopes will be built in the southern Iraqi city of Basra.

Congress approved $50 million for the project in November as part of $87.5 billion for U.S. military operations and aid in Iraq (news - web sites), although some lawmakers, including Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont, ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Operations Subcommittee, have questioned whether the money would be better spent on basic public health measures instead of a modern facility.


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The Coalition Provisional Authority has informed Congress that it is ready to do the project, but is waiting for the lawmakers to respond with guidelines on how the money could be used.


The $87.5 billion approved by Congress includes $18.6 million for reconstruction. Of this amount, Congress approved $493 million for improving hospitals and clinics across Iraq, including $50 million for the pediatric facility in Basra.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=703&e=6&u=/ap/20040301/ap_on_go_pr_wh/laura_bush_iraq


note ***********this makes me so gawd damn mad.after whats happening here in Florida...

************* this is what bush on Fl wants for the older people who have to be put in nursing homes.get sick.lose your bed...compassion republican bastards.........People of Fl.get off the couch and write to bush and tell him and his fellow sucking off the poor and giving the rich tax cuts ...their is no way this should be allowed to happen!!!



A Bush Medicaid cut could leave nursing home patients who have to be hospitalized.




Currently, residents can be hospitalized up to eight days and Medicaid will pay the nursing home to keep their beds open. After their hospital treatment, residents return to their corkboards and wall prints.

Medicaid calls this the "eight-day bed-hold." Bush proposes saving $23-million this year by eliminating it. In dollar terms, the bed-hold proposal pales beside a total of $300-million Bush hopes to cut from this year's nursing home budget. Florida spends more than $2-billion each year on nursing home care through Medicaid.

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Bush's budget reflects his determination to tame Medicaid costs anywhere he can. A federal-state health program designed for the poor, Medicaid covers children without insurance, disabled people and frail elders. But its price has doubled in six years, driven mostly by drug and nursing home costs. Medicaid now consumes one-quarter of Florida's budget, the largest single expense.

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[DoYouEverWonder]

1. The woman doesn't have a clue

I just wish someone would prescribe to me what ever it is they've got her on. I'd love to live in fantasy land too.

[meegbear]

2. The Laura Bush Medical Center

Drive-ins welcome.

[AtTheEndOfTheDay]

3. neato

They can specialize on injuries and misery inflicted by her husband.

[kskiska]

4. This must be the pretext

for her previously announced visit to Iraq. I thought she said she planned a March visit. Maybe she'll lay the cornerstone. We've already got a Bar Bush hospital in Maine, so Laura's got to have hers, too.

[Bridget Burke]

5. Iraq already has hospitals & clinics.....

They suffered under sanctions, and things got much worse after the invasion & looting.

It would be more efficient to help out the existing institutions. However, there would be no glory for the name of Bush...

[leetrisck]

6. There's a Laura Bush medical clinic

in Afghanistan. When I found out this money for the hospital in Iraq was in the Defense budget, I called several people (for all the good it did). The bush family likes for American tax dollars to pay for buildings and then put their name on it - just read Barbara Bush's "Reflections" (no, don't buy it). This family loves to have buildings (or anything else paid for by taxpayers) named after them.

[Malva Zebrina]

7. Mrs. Bush is an A**

She is being propelled as a mythological being into these things and she is a lackey and a stupid one at that.

Can we please stop this type of thing in our culture.?

Laura Bush is a nothing. She deserves to have "nothing" "no thing" named after her because she has not done a damn thing for thirty years in her life after she married into the Bush family monied family''

She could care less and can think less. And further loves being the princess without evver having to have done a thing in her life for the good of mankind except birth twins.

CAn we please stop this -phoniness in naming things after the Laura the do nothing, know nothing, care nothing, see nothing, hear nothing and say nothing, first frump?

'Why on earth could anyone think she needs a hospital in Iraq named after her when her husband has murdered so many Iraqi children?

She is a stupid, inane, do nothing, frump of a woman.

There are plenty of sharp, intelligent women out there who would trump her stupidity and Stepforditity--and trump her into the ground.

Laura Bush is a nothing--a No Thing. Why are things being named after her?

[saigon68]

9. Laura Bush is a nothing--a No Thing

They could name a Thong after her?

[Dr Fate]

8. I would rather her "push" for a USA Medical Center...

...I guess I'm unpatriotic for suggesting that free healthcare go to AMERICAN kids instead. They are "lazy" and should get their own...

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[indepat]

12. The goodness and kindness behind the gesture make big tears well

up in my eyes. Oh the humanity.