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Obama to hold summit on sports concussions
The Hill ^ | May 15, 2014 | Justin Sink

Posted on 05/18/2014 11:14:08 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks

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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

He wouldn’t allow his son(if he had one) to play PROFESSIONAL football...
I guess being a dictator you can ban anyone at anytime from engaging in any activity you deem unsafe, right??
Or maybe he’s just too stupid to realize that by thetime your eligible to play Pro Football, your also of legal age to make YOUR OWN DECISIONS


21 posted on 05/18/2014 11:35:33 AM PDT by snappahead (if your gonna be dumb, you better be tough.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

How does he do it? How does he find the time to address an issue that has absolutely nothing to do with his job? Maybe Joe Biden can hold a summit on how many chocolate chips should be in a chocolate chip cookie.


22 posted on 05/18/2014 11:36:25 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

What about those Benghazi concussions you traitor


23 posted on 05/18/2014 11:37:45 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

The assumption, here, is that you are too stupid to raise your own kids.

My daughter bumped her head playing volleyball, so we brought her to a doctor to have her looked at. She checked out completely fine, but the doctor would not sign off on her returning to play until she had taken a week off and gone through two weeks of pointless rehab therapy, all provided, conveniently, in the brand new Concussion Center at the hospital. Three weeks and thousands of dollars from my insurance company later, we got the sign-off, a week after the end of the season.

It was all a scam. Once you walk through the door, they are going to extract $5000 from your insurance company, no matter what, before you get the certification required by the state to return to play. Next time, I will just check the kid out myself and avoid being fed into the money-extraction machine.


24 posted on 05/18/2014 11:38:33 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
“I would not let my son play pro football,” Obama told the magazine's editor, David Remnick, a former sportswriter.

1) Remnick was a sports writer?

2) Obama has a son?

26 posted on 05/18/2014 11:45:32 AM PDT by x
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

You can bet your bottom dollar that all of the techs, nurses and rehab assistants employed by this boondoggle will be dues paying members of the SEIU.


27 posted on 05/18/2014 11:46:17 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Meadow Muffin
I believe the scar on his head, was placed there when he had the operation to turn him into a complete asshat.

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28 posted on 05/18/2014 11:46:21 AM PDT by digger48
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To: Haiku Guy

That sounds like medical overkill; if no disability and no injury and no provable likelihood of either then no need for rehab. On the other hand, I wonder if this is driven by the fear of lawsuit, not just the hope of profit. That $X000 bill is the rack rate and probably is reimbursed at close to cost by the insurance company.


29 posted on 05/18/2014 11:50:15 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: digger48

What did Chicago manure ever do to deserve such a slur. Surely it is better than Barack’s idea of wisdom.


30 posted on 05/18/2014 11:51:36 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

In this state, once you bring the child in with any kind of bump on the head, a notice goes to the State of New Jersey, that must be cleared before the kid can even participate in PE, much less a sport. At that point they have what you need, and they will extract as much money as they can before they will give it to you.


31 posted on 05/18/2014 11:57:04 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Haiku Guy

Keep in mind that insurance reimbursement rates are close to cost.


32 posted on 05/18/2014 11:58:47 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Smoke & mirrors
Dog & pony
Hooker & donkey

Circus


33 posted on 05/18/2014 12:10:23 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights ......... It's the LAW !!!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

I’m sure they are. But the costs were high. And all of the money paid to otherwise unemployable Service Employee International Union members was unnecessary.


34 posted on 05/18/2014 12:14:05 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Haiku Guy

California has a bill in process that would limit full contact practice to two times a week.

http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/bill-limits-full-contact-youth-football-drills-23739413


35 posted on 05/18/2014 12:22:28 PM PDT by porter_knorr
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Good afternoon.

Does anyone know if 0bama ever played organized football? Pop Warner, high school, etc.?

5.56mm

36 posted on 05/18/2014 12:28:00 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Another attempt to get the public brainwashed into thinking medical care is in the the Federal Gov't purview.
37 posted on 05/18/2014 12:30:34 PM PDT by what's up (sun)
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To: Haiku Guy

For comparison purposes, when I was about 12 (back in ‘63), I was testing the new speedometer on my big 26 inch Schwinn. I remember it reading 45 mph...next thing I know, I’m waking up in my house 16 hours later with a horrible headache. Naturally, I hit a pothole, went over the handlebars and landed on my head.

Mom and Dad called the Doc and he said “Is that him screaming in the background?” Dad said “Yes, that’s him.” (I was still out cold). Doc said “He’ll be fine. Keep him to rest for a day.”


38 posted on 05/18/2014 12:57:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

With all the problems our country faces, here and abroad, Obama should stay out of the sports concussions and other sports issues. Let the high school, college and pro associations explore the issues.

Obama has no focus, he jumps from whatever is today’s headline to whatever comes up another day, none of which are a national security or survival matter. Number one should be our lagging economy—he and his regulators and economists should back off as none of the big government interventions have worked so far—let a more free market and small business approach work on the economy.


39 posted on 05/18/2014 1:11:28 PM PDT by RicocheT (Where neither their property nor their honor is touched, most men live content, Niccolo Machiavelli)
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Between faggotry and concussion hysteria, liberals will eventually kill football. Maybe by then we can finally have Civil War II. (I know. Pipedream. We will probably go as quietly as a fart in the wind).


40 posted on 05/18/2014 1:32:34 PM PDT by ohioman
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