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The truly poor still have access to Medicaid in Idaho. The program didn't go away. It just didn't expand it to people above the poverty line.

Truly poor? Do you think someone who makes $2,800 a year isn't poor? http://www.idahostatesman.com/...

In my understanding, single non-disabled people aren't eligible for Medicaid in Idaho at all. http://www.medicaid.gov/Medica...

What do you do with these people? Do you leave them to die, like they do in Texas? http://online.wsj.com/news/art...

And then the Federal Government orders the State to massively expand Medicaid. My State just doesn't have the resources to do it. It isn't because people don't care, we just don't have the income. 90% of the Students in my School District are on free or reduced lunch. Median Family income in my town is $31,000 per year.

The federal government offered to pay for your expansion of Medicaid. Most of that money would come from the federal government, and it would continue for at least the next several years. That's because people in other (mostly Northern, Democratic) states, like my own New York, are willing to help other parts of the country get essential needs like health care. If the federal government dropped support for Medicaid in the future, you could have changed the program then.

How can you not afford health care? If your child has a life-threatening illness, do you say, "I can't afford it, I'll just have to let her die"?

You can't do without health care. Your choice is to pay for private insurance, or to pay for it through taxes. Paying through taxes is cheaper. When you cross the border into Canada, they don't have any problem paying for health care.

Idaho can afford to put people in jail for 10 years on a marijuana charge. How come you have enough money for prisons for non-violent crimes but you don't have enough money for health care for the poor? http://cjonline.com/news/2013-... http://www.ktvb.com/news/7-inv...

Idaho has enough money. They're just spending it on the wrong things. Do you want to spend it on schools and health care, or do you want to pay for drug-sniffing dogs and prisons?

In Oregon and New Jersey is it illegal to pump your own gas.
Supposedly for safety reason, but... seriously.

Oregon pump law

Should be a trivial exercise. With the amount of people playing world of warcraft, there are bound to be a few pedophiles lurking about.(Got one in one google link) Couple that with the Disney-esque design and setting, and there are probably a few furries about as well.

I suspect you'd only have to whisper such obscenities into the ear of an IWF member and the whole of Azeroth would be blocked off to UK players within a week.

I agree with the poster and am currently working on a paper regarding this topic.

For those interested in a non USPTO view of the process this article is available at:
http://www.ktvb.com/news/localnews/stories/ktvbn-m ar1607-micron_patent.1ab55ce3.html.

According to the article in the approximately 200 days since the program began and the date of the article, only 236 requests were filed.

The problems with the program are that it not only increases the risks of a finding a invalidity for an entire patent due to inequitable conduct, it also can limit the scope of patent protection as well as greatly increasing the costs of preparing the application (3x-5x).

I've emailed the rest suggesting that they invest some resources in this new-fangled thing called the Internet, but they don't even reply to my emails. So, I ignore them.