(M)an: Dude! The Texas Hospital Association is basically
cracking the eggshells it set forth on uninsured Texans, the THA thinking it
could masquerade as a bipartisan body that it is not. But, like the exiting Texas
Governor Rick Perry and campaigning as the Republican candidate frontrunner in
the governor’s race David Dewhurst, the THA awards very specific people as
honoraries.
(D)ude: Man! What’s one example of a THA honorary that
exposes their Republican orientation and movement away from accepting the Affordability
Care Act in the State of Texas?
M: Dude! State Representative Susan Lewis King of Abilene,
Texas is one such example. According to The Texas Tribune’s “Elected Officials
Directory”, Susan Lewis is a surgical nurse by occupation and a Republican by
political party affiliation. The Texas Tribune goes on to provide a transparent
overview of how King and her spouse have made their money, apart from the
$7,200 per year that she makes as a member of the Texas House of
Representatives.
D: Man! That’s it? Just $7,200 per year is an embarrassingly
small amount!
M: Dude! State Representatives in Texas have to have other
sources of income in order to make a living, according to the National
Conference of State Legislatures, or the NCSL. State Representative Susan Lewis
King of District 71, for example, holds over a thousand shares of stock in her
own business entity and two of her husband’s business entities, specifically stated
in the Personal Financial Statement processed by the Texas Ethics Commission on
April 30, 2013.
D: Man! What kind of business entities are we talking about
here? Like a medical practice where she is a surgical nurse and then the two
others being her husband’s investments in corporations?
M: Dude! She’s employed by Elm Place Ambulatory Surgical
Center and her husband is a self-employed physician, specifically an
otolaryngologist, as well as a self-employed rancher. However, while her stocks
are held with her employer, his stocks are in his own private practice, a “PA”
or Professional Association, and the Chevron Corporation.
D: Man! What’s up with the Professional Association or “PA”
anyways? It’s only a factor by which doctors and lawyers remain in control and
protected in their practices while the general public’s overall power in disputes
is marginalized. Whatever happened to the malpractice insurance that
professionals were required by licensure to get before they could practice?
M: Dude! The Professional Association carries the same
weight and tax relief as a corporation where all the shareholders identify with
each other professionally, whether doctors or lawyers.
D: Man! So there’s King’s husband, who has a medical
Professional Association and ties to ranching? Is he aware that the United
States Geological Survey recorded three more earthquakes due to fracking Tuesday,
now the grand total being 10 within Parker County since November 1st?
M: Dude! Parker County, Texas? That must be Azle and
Weatherford, yeah?
D: Man! Yeah! And Fort Worth, Texas is going to be next! With
the massive highway construction going on these days, I think these fracking
earthquakes are going to be biblical in their destruction of homes,
neighborhoods, and perhaps even the wealthier communities too. I wonder what
effects all these fracking structures being built alongside the booming highway
system will have with regards to the phenomenon of urban decay. I think there
will be mass rural decay as well later on down the road.
M: Dude! Governor Rick Perry’s latest comments regarding
today’s Supreme Court decision to uphold Texas’ restrictions on women’s access
to safe reproductive health services that include birth control and abortion,
is appalling. Texas Governor Perry said, “This
is good news for both the unborn and the for the women of Texas, who are now better
protected from shoddy abortion providers operating in dangerous conditions.”
D: Man! Governor Perry is not accepting Medicaid Expansion
from the Federal Government for the over one million uninsured Texans living in
medical dire straits. And now Justices John Roberts, Antonin Scalia, Clarence
Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Anthony Kennedy of the United States Supreme Court
have severed Roe V. Wade! So do these
men on the United States Supreme Court seriously think we live in a
post-racialist and post-abortion society where there is no need for the crux of
the Voting Rights Act of 1965 or Roe V. Wade Verdict of 1973 because there is
no need to protect the American Voter and the American Woman anymore?
M: Dude! Did you know my brother and sister-in-law decided
to terminate a pregnancy once it was found that the baby would be born with
severe physical dysfunctions? They actually received counseling and compassion
and care throughout what both of them would agree was a stressful and
devastating time. My sister-in-law researched various options that led her to
become a hand holder at that abortion clinic shortly after her own loss.
D: Man! You’re sister-in-law is a hand holder?
M: Dude! She was a hand holder and it gave her a chance to
look into the abortion debate from a personal perspective. But the clinic where
she worked will shutdown now after the Supreme Court basically placed the
“undue burden” on women seeking care, counseling, and compassion in their time
of desperation through restrictions placed on the physicians that run the abortion
clinics to have admitting privileges with a hospital within a 30-mile radius of
their location.
D: Man! The people of the United States must speak up and
demand their right to vote before the 2014 midterms and show up and vote. And
people in power and influence must pursue the implementation of public funding
to finance the procurement of passports and at least three other valid forms of
identification for registering constituents who are either frustrated or angry
with or unaware of the specifications state-to-state varying conflictingly with
their lives and day-to-day schedules.
M: Dude! State Representative King’s response to State
Senator Wendy Davis’ 11-hour filibuster included quote unquote, “Women have a constitutional right to a
safe and legal abortion within certain pentameters.” That’s the stance of
the Republican Woman Legislator to the American Woman right there! Women and
their doctors are supposed to keep a functioning reproductive health services
clinic within earshot of a hospital and certain pentameters?
D: Man! I’ll tell you what State Representative Susan Lewis
King purposefully forgot to mention, and that is the complexity of pregnancy
and the complexity of abortions. With women resorting to underground access to
reproductive healthcare and abortions, including unsafe pills to chemically
induce termination and the high risk of death by toxicity, I’m afraid for the
lives of the countless girls and women who could die in the hands of deplorable
charlatans or outright criminals.
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