Monday, July 27, 2009

What... Mentally ret..... I have not heard that term in 25 years or more...

The proposed health-insurance bill from the House of Representatives refers to mentally disabled people as "retarded" -- a term advocates, relatives and physicians find outdated and offensive.

The bill refers to: "A hospital or a nursing facility or intermediate-care facility for the mentally retarded . . ."

The phrase could cause more problems with groups for the developmentally disabled, who were angered when President Obama referred to his poor bowling skills on "The Tonight Show" as "like the Special Olympics." Obama later apologized.

30 year old term in the bill... along with lots of crap that's been tried and failed... and things we have done that did not work... stinkin' thinkin' by one of America's brightest??? or dumbest???



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