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–Is it a proper function of government to sentence a 20-year old man to jail, and caning, because his father is displeased with his “idleness”? (“He is not listening to words and he is bringing shame to my family. I am tired of his nefarious deeds. Please put this boy in prison so that I can be free.”)
–Does a “right to health care” include a right to force a physician to pay $150 to provide a sign language interpeter for a deaf patient undergoing an examination for which the physician will only be reimbursed $49?
–Why does a federal welfare bureaucracy, the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, always announce its annual taxpayer subsidies in terms of helping Northeastern households pay for heating oil, when in fact all fifty states receive block grants under the scheme? Are the poor and cold in Maine somehow more deserving than the poor and hot in Nevada? Or are they merely better “poster-children” for the program?
–Who said the following in 2005?
The public wants term limits and while there may be — it may be that the City Council has a right to override them, deliberately saying to the public “we don’t care what you think” is, I would use the word, “disgraceful.”
–How much has the Republican National Committee spent on clothing and accessories for Sarah Palin?
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Does a “right to health care” include a right to force a physician to pay $150 to provide a sign language interpeter for a deaf patient undergoing an examination for which the physician will only be reimbursed $49?
Ah hell naw it doesn't! If anything, the responsibility of hiring the translator should fall on the client and if she or he receives state medical care, then the state should pay for it. I am a person who is on the fence about healthcare being a right or a personal responsibility but one thing I cannot abide is bullying by the deaf and hard of hearing lobby. I used to be a relay operator so know a little bit about this topic. Your tax dollars and mine go towards paying for their relay service. And I take issue with that! It is as though we are rewarding them for having a disability. I think this sends the wrong message to that population. Many of the deaf also receive SSI benefits simply because they are deaf. Talk about disincentives for working! They get their phone service paid for and they get a monthly cheque just for existing.
It is wholly ridiculous to FORCE anyone to accomodate a client in that fashion. The doctor should have had the good sense to drop her as a client and refer her to someone else. That would have exonerated him from this liability.
Somewhere down the line, the deaf and hard of hearing lobby convinced deaf people that society owed them something because of their disability. I would rather those tax dollars get spent on increasing the deaf literacy rate IN ENGLISH. One thing that people don't understand is that ASL doesn't translate to English very nicely and some of the deaf refuse to learn English because it is the TTY relay operators' job to translate the broken ASL quasi English into standard English.
This presents a big problem because often people can be misrepresented when they are barely literate and have an operator translate everything for them. Something is seriously wrong with this picture…
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