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From Lawn-Boys to B-2's: America's penchant for mowing `em down
"I just look around and see people mowing their lawns on the same day we start to bomb Iraq and it drives me wild." --Mike Palecek Having read and thoroughly enjoyed three of Mike Palecek's novels, I felt particularly fortunate that he agreed to engage in a cyber-interview with me. His irreverent satirization of the myriad of ills plaguing the United States is unparalleled amongst current authors of sociopolitical fiction. Palecek may hyperbolize, but his fertile imagination has afforded US Americans a priceless opportunity to stop and examine what we are becoming as a nation. And he has done so in a fashion that is both absorbing and entertaining.
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Partnership addresses health care needs of the vulnerable
Most Coloradoans have access to basic health care – checkups, immunizations, dental care and mental health counseling – through employer-sponsored insurance, but about 770,000 or 17 percent of residents lack any kind of health insurance. Medicaid is a publicly-funded health insurance program for about 400,000 low-income children, some of their parents, people with disabilities and elders. Likewise, the Child Health Plan Plus (CHP+) program insures about 50,000 children and pregnant women with incomes somewhat higher than Medicaid thresholds. Because of low reimbursement rates, however, Coloradoans enrolled in these publicly-funded programs may have difficulty obtaining care from private doctors and hospitals. Fortunately, there is a health care safety net, a collection of public and private clinics and hospital emergency departments that provides basic health care to these vulnerable populations.
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