Cadet Matthew LaPorte is buried in Blacksburg on Thursday.
Posted on 04/26/2007 11:36:59 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Have a great weekend, y’all!
An awful lot.
Great one this week John.
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Outstanding editorial. Keep up the good work!
That was excellent. I think I’ll keep a copy.
Couple of points -
The mental health lobby, armed with HIPPA as a club, will never let mental health records become part of the NCIC database. HIPPA is a great shield for them.
Hell, we can't even get medical records for a victim to use in a criminal case without the victim's signature - which is in direct contradiction to HIPPA which contains an exemption for law enforcement. IF we can't get medical providers to cough up what law enforcement needs to prosecute a criminal, does anybody expect the mental health provider lobby to support giving information to law enforcement to help identify and track their patients?
While the level of compliance varies from provider to provider, by and large Health Care Providers are so afraid of HIPPA that they basically refuse to give information without the patient's ok.
Look for more of these shootings as these lunatics, who are crazy but not stupid, see that they can get a national platform of attention if they focus on gun free zones where large quantities of easy targets are available. My biggest concern is that the next one will occur at a day care or elementary school.
No matter what Cho did, he doesn't deserve to defamed like this.
Haven’t seen you in AGES. How have you been?
HIPPA ????
I’ve never seen anything as ridiculous as HIPPA.
My sister-in-law immigrated to this country from Viet Nam in 1990. 5 years ago she became very sick. She went to several doctors, emergency rooms and clinics. Each time they gave her antibiotics and sent her home. This went on for a year and a half and she still wasn’t getting better. Finally she asked me to talk to her doctor because she didn’t understand what her various doctors were telling her. I tried 3 doctors and got no information because I wasn’t her spouse and HIPPA would only allow info to immediate family (spouse,children). Finally I prevailed to the ethics of a surgeon who was treating her for persistent infections. I explained to him that she knew she was sick but didn’t know why. This doctor, who went against the HIPPA secrecy crap, finally told me that she had tuberculosis infections.
We then took her to a tuberculosis specialty clinic and although it took 2 years, she was finally cured of the damn disease.
HIPPA is crap. Nothing more than a liberal plan that appeals to the feelings of security of liberals. To a liberal it is more important to feel safe than to actually be safe.
In lieu of scrapping the entire mess, there should be a required line on the HIPAA forms designating someone who the medical provider can contact. Not very many sick people are in the best position to understand everything that doctors tell them, simply because they are sick. Everyone needs an advocate - an extra pair of eyes and ears and thinking processes.
Saw this. McCarthy had to be asked 3 times. The first 2 times she evaded the question and the 3rd time she said she didn't know.
There is a way around this. It is called a "Power of Attorney." My in-laws both had them naming my wife as the one to make health care decisions. She used the POA as it should be done, and discussed all treatment plan with their physicians. Even though they had dementia and other diseases that altered the way they would make decisions they both received excellent medical care directed by someone who loved them.
After seeing the treatment my in-laws received and the treatment others without a POA received, we have a medical POA in place for each of us including children when they reach 18.
A land grant university that sponsors ROTC for all four services. A university with a full time Corps of Cadets separate from the ROTC. A university with more Medal of Honor awardees than any other school in the United States, outside of the service academies.
Virginia Tech is an engineering school, not exactly a hotbed of liberalism.
Cadet Matthew LaPorte is buried in Blacksburg on Thursday.
Is this true? I've never seen a confirmation on this one way or the other.
Is this true? I've never seen a confirmation on this one way or the other.
He did use high-capacity magazines: ACCORDING TO LIBERALS, ANYONE WHO HAS MORE THAN 1-SHOT CAPABILITY IS A HICAP!
fyi, "duckie" & i visited the area for 3 weeks right after Christmas. (fyi,i'm a retired federal LEO & permanently licensed to carry my duty weapon concealed everywhere in the USA.)
at VT, i was told that i couldn't carry (even leaving my 1911A1 in the locked trunk.), as VT is a "gun-free zone".
free dixie,sw
Excellent, JH2!!
free dixie,sw
The VT gun-free zone thing is stupid - but that doesn’t make it a “government university run by liberals and filled with liberal professors teaching liberal dogma.”
There are lots of univerities I would characterize that way - mostly private liberal arts colleges like Evergreen State or Brown University.
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