Melted Minds due to facts

[underguy1]

Oh and there's this ......

https://www.documentcloud.org/docum...lintons-letter-to-haim-saban-against-bds.html

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

"Fugitive polygamist Lyle Jeffs may have been swept away in the rapture!"

(After all of the television series and films based on Rapture, I had not seen anything that pointed to just one single person getting Raptured, and witness the phenomena stopping dead in its tracks, afterwards.)

Last week, I heard this rumor, while passing through a room. A comedian said it, and I was guessing that the mention of Rapture, was just another element of the joke.)

Stephen Colbert just brought the joke up, again.
Had a skit with God/god.
(Not a real God/god, just a male actor that played the part. Colbert had an opportunity to push the joke further. He could have featured a Goddess/goddess. Or a married couple that were God/god and Goddess/goddess. *sigh*)

http://www.denverpost.com/2016/08/3...effs-may-have-been-swept-away-in-the-rapture/


Jeffs’s attorney has put forth a divine reason for his disappearance – the miracle of rapture:

“As this Court is well aware, Mr. Jeffs is currently not available to inform his counsel whether or not he agrees to the Continuance. Whether his absence is based on absconding, as oft alleged by the Government in their filings, or whether he was taken and secreted against his will, or whether he experienced the miracle of rapture is unknown to counsel.”

The FBI isn’t buying the heavenly intervention angle.

The organization issued a wanted poster for Jeffs, who is “thought to be a leader in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.”

(The FBI is offering $50,000 for information that leads to Jeffs’s arrest!

Still not sure, if The Onion started this, or not...)

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

Snopes may tell us the facts, but it cannot tell us what is hidden from everyone.

The story of a young woman, desperate because she is has a haemorrhage, because her IUD became dislodged.

Her doctor may have misinformed her, but the question remains. Why did he tell her that the Catholic hospital would not help her ?

"American Civil Liberties Union of Illinois confirmed that Mercy maintained that the doctor (not the hospital) denied Jones' treatment for her dislodged IUD."


why would a doctor tell a woman who was afraid and bleeding, and damaged internally, to not expect any medical help ? What did he have to gain or lose, by making such a statement to a patient that obviously needed immediate medical attention ? The doctor felt no responsibility, because he gave away his authority for a paycheck ?The young woman had a metal object cutting up her uterine tissue, and he wants her to go away, and not be his problem ? WTF happened to the oath to do no harm ?

i understand the motives behind trying to restrict abortion. But, slut shaming a young woman because she has decided to save her own life, by having an IUD to prevent a birth that could kill her? Do Christians expect every woman to lay down her life in a fight for life and death, over a fetus that may not survive ? If Christians are that serious are really that serious about the issues of pregnancy, where are the fires, at condom factories or birth control device manufacture centers? Why are the birth control laboratories still in business? Why? Because the Christian hypocrites have their money invested in these companies. They enjoy the benefits from the high profits these companies make.Will this situation change, after all the sex and birth industries are under Republican control and ownership? Will they relent in their ruthlessness, heartlessness and cruelty, after they win? Will they tell the current religious support structure to got away, bleed to death, and make their death someone else's problem?

gsgs comment-The medical community lost authority when doctors agreed to follow the demands of an HMO. "The bottom line is that you pay more for a PPO (Preferred Provider Organization ) in order to have greater flexibility in your healthcare choices. "HMO's are the most restrictive form of managed care benefit plans because they restrict the procedures, providers and benefits." An very elderly person that I know, said that at one point, all her health care was free.That made sense to me, as the very elderly sometimes have health issues that mak it impossible for them to work and earn. If someone is nearly a hundred years old, they lived in a world where efforts to gain humane treatment and living conditions were fought for, and won. She is part of the last generation that can expect those expectations to be met.

To bring the privately insured into HMOs, Congress forced employers with 25 or more employees to offer HMOs as an option--a law that remained in effect until 1995. Congress then provided a total of $375 million in federal subsidies to fund planning and start-up expenses, and to lower the cost of HMO premiums. This allowed HMOs to undercut the premium prices of their insurance competitors and gain significant market share.

In addition, the federal law pre-empted state laws, that prohibited physicians from receiving payments for not providing care. In other words, payments to physicians by HMOs for certain behavior (fewer admissions to hospitals, rationing care, prescribing cheaper medicines) were now legal.

Blue Cross Blue Shield operating in Massachusetts, caught the attention of the local newspapers, when it was discovered how much money a non profit was giving to their directors.

"Boston-based insurer disclosed that it agreed to give Killingsworth, who resigned last March, more than $11 million in salary, retirement, and severance payments. Public outrage was magnified by the fees Blue Cross pays to its 18 directors, most of whom are prominent business, labor, and education leaders. Those payments ranged from $11,415 to $89,886 last year."

http://archive.boston.com/business/.../03/09/blue_cross_board_suspends_its_own_pay/


The latest assault on the First Amendment right of Americans to freely exercise their religious beliefs, the Illinois legislature has passed a bill that will force doctors to violate their religious convictions about the immorality of abortions. Illinois SB 1564 has passed both houses and is headed to the governor to sign or veto.
Melanie Jones

In late December 2015, Ms. Jones slipped on water and fell in her bathroom. The next morning, Ms. Jones began to suffer from sharp pains, cramping, and bleeding. Ms. Jones scheduled an appointment with a physician in the Mercy Hospital network. She told the office, the nurse and the physician that she was using a copper intra-uterine device (IUD), a non-hormonal method of birth control, and believed that it had become dislodged. This was the safest and most reliable form of birth control for Ms. Jones, who had suffered a TIA, or mini-stroke, when she was 20. Hormonal birth control could increase her risk of another stroke.

The Mercy doctor examined Ms. Jones and confirmed that her IUD had become dislodged and it needed to be removed. Rather than conduct the quick procedure that would have alleviated Ms. Jones’ pain and bleeding and prevented additional risks, the doctor declined to provide Ms. Jones the care she needed. After consulting others at Mercy,the doctor told Ms. Jones that her “hands were tied” by Mercy’s religious restrictions, which barred treatment involving a non-hormonal IUD, because its sole purpose was to prevent pregnancy. The doctor also said she could not refer Ms. Jones for care, because every health care provider in the network operated under the Catholic health care restrictions.Ms. Jones was then told that she would have to wait an entire month to change her insurance network in order to obtain care from a provider that was not bound by these religious restrictions, but the doctor suggested that Ms. Jones should feel “lucky” since that process can often time take patients months. “I walked away from the doctor’s office feeling shocked and stigmatized,” said Ms. Jones in announcing the charges. “Hospitals and doctors’ offices should be places for healing and not judgment.”


“I felt singled out for using birth control for the purpose of preventing pregnancy.”
Mercy requires that all of its facilities and physicians abide by the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs), written and enforced by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The ERDs demand that all Catholic health care providers adopt the ERDs as policy and require adherence to them as a condition of medical privileges and employment. A broad prohibition against providing contraception-related services is just one of the many restrictions that the ERDs place on health care. According to the Mercy physician Ms. Jones saw, Mercy’s internal policy implementing this directive requires doctors to deny women with IUDs used to prevent pregnancy any treatment related to those IUDs, even when compliance requires turning women away like Ms. Jones—who come to Mercy bleeding, in pain, and in need of immediate care.

http://www.aclu-il.org/chicago-area...-health-care-because-of-religious-objections/

“We are concerned that the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs) substitute the views of religious leaders for the needs of patients like Ms. Jones,” said Lorie Chaiten, Director of the Women’s and Reproductive Rights Project of the ACLU of Illinois. “We must put patients first.”“When Illinois patients go into an exam room, they should not be discriminated against based on their health care provider’s religious beliefs,” added Chaiten. “Ms. Jones was bleeding and in pain and deserved to be cared for immediately.”