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  Phaedrus on November 04 at 5:15 p.m.

  if everyone in Idaho had health insurance tomorrow, there wouldn’t be enough doctors in the state to treat everyone.

  Now that's a good reason not to insure everyone! ;-/

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  spokelooneh on November 04 at 5:54 p.m.

  So they're rationing health care, then, eh? NO kidding, there's a surprise. The AMA's been limiting the supplies of M.D.s for decades, and pushing newly minted docs into high income specialties so they can pay back their 100s of thousands of dollars in student loans a little sooner, while the actual demand is for GPs, Family Practitioners, and Internists Why do you think thousands of people die every year for lack of basic healthcare?

  That's on your head, Susie.

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  spokelooneh on November 04 at 5:57 p.m.

  “All of the 93 workers at Welco Lumber Co. slated to lose their jobs in December will qualify for help from the government, whether it be for retraining, relocating or finding another job.
  “I will find some type of assistance for every employee out there,” said Dave Darrow, manager for the Idaho Department of Labor in Bonners Ferry. “

  More socialism.

  Let them eat cake while pulling themselves up by their bootstraps.

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  Soaf on November 04 at 6:07 p.m.

  What's really funny about that Spoke is that Boundary County votes straight (R).

  Now that's being a hypocritical.

  :-)

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  Herb Huseland on November 04 at 9:05 p.m.

  Reading the Tekoa death reminds me of when I was such a teen. Most of us thought we were ten feet tall and bullet prove. some died thinking that. In my high school career, we lost just one student to an automobile accident. There could have been many more, including yours truly. I remember taking my '41 hopped up Mercury down the Dunlap canyon Highway at 97mph … in second gear. That stretch of four lane road is now called Martin Luther King Hwy. It started at Rainier Avenue in Renton, circled around the hills to the west, then became Empire Way, heading into seattle. All of that has been wiped out, as the I-5 freeway cut right through the middle of all of that.

  Bottom line, it could have been me. Teens survive these situations by learning the hard way. That his close friend was killed in a similar way should tend to suggest that he didn't learn well or quickly. To lose one's child as a teenager, after nurturing them through the toddler stage, the small child stage, only to lose them to teen age independence, has to be the cruelest thing that can happen to a parent. My heart goes out to the parents of a young man that just didn't get it.

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  spokelooneh on November 04 at 9:17 p.m.

  Well said, Herb. I was young and foolish and awfully damn lucky that I survived unscathed numerous car crashes in high school that should have killed me.

  The loss of a child must bring unspeakable sadness.

  Another senseless tragedy, not wearing a seatbelt.

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  Northerner on November 05 at 12:36 p.m.

  “The AMA's been limiting the supplies of M.D.s for decades”

  Interesting thought. Unfortunately, how do you explain the 80 percent of physicians in the nation who are NOT a part of the AMA or members? Most physicians that I know, by a very large margin, are not what you could call 'fans' of the AMA.

  Another interesting thought is that most conservative advocacy groups are not opposed to re-education and re-training in lieu of just sending someone a check. And for the record, our coroner in Boundary County is a democrat, so the statement that we vote straight R is also a little on the extreme side. Of course, nobody else ever runs for coroner, so I guess we all just vote for Mick because we like him and he seems to take care of us R's just as well as he does the D's.

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