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"The liberal soul shall be made fat, and he that watereth, shall be watered also himself." -- Proverbs 11:25 |
Labels: assholes, health care, racism
In my hometown, we had the "Dirty 30" - a cabal of 30 doctors who built a private hospital to compete against the local nonprofit (the only other hospital for 45 miles); the hospital has no maternity ward and strenuously avoids Medicaid and the indigent. They sold out to Bill Frist's hospital chain and made millions. Among the 30 were at least one wifebeater (a neurosurgeon), more than a couple of well-known serial philanderers, and an oral surgeon who ended up doing time for feeling up his female patients while they were anesthetized. (He was a good Catholic with 9 kids.)
Coincidentally, all of the Dirty 30 were vocal Republicans.
But not all of Florida's racist assholes are doctors; some of them are just good, old-fashioned, un-Reconstructed southern rednecks.