I have a passion for single payer healthcare and believe most of our fellow citizens are ignorant of how easy it is to lose good health insurance and the consequences. A well written diary The-GOP-Confusion-on-Healthcareshowed up today. I think worth a read and a rec.
And you need some love and care,
And nothing, nothing is going right...
...then I find myself looking for something...anything...to brighten up even the darkest night.
There is Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton, who posted on Facebook about the anti-trans legislation the GOP is promoting in his state.
They are wrong on the issue and wrong on the morality of it in my opinion. I’ll veto it.
--Dayton
Minnesota resident Nova Bradford, 21, had a chemical dependency problem, which she wanted to get help with, so she tried to gain admission to the University of Minnesota Medical Center's Lodging Plus substance abuse treatment program.
You can recover from chemical addiction and live a fuller life. To do so, you most likely will need support or assistance. Our services include assessment, medically supervised detoxification, inpatient and outpatient evaluation and referral, inpatient-to-outpatient treatment, family counseling and aftercare. Working with us, you’ll recover physically, psychologically, interpersonally and spiritually.
As it turns out the use of the word "you" in the above was overly broad.
Nova was refused admission because she is a transgender woman. Fairview Health Services, which operates UMMC informed her that it would be inappropriate to accept her into the program because there were separate floors for male and female residents and "because they have open showers."
