Erin Monk

Recent Activity

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  Erin signed the petition | 7 months ago

  Don't Segregate Menstruating Girls in Public Schools
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  Erin signed the petition | 9 months ago

  Do not allow NC Judge to take Alaina Giordano's children just because she has cancer!
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  Erin signed the petition | 11 months ago

  Tell the New York Times to Apologize for Blaming a Child for Her Gang Rape
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  Erin commented on the article | over 1 year ago

  Pregnant Women Losing Out on Home Loans

  If you're saving up the money during your pregnancy it might be that you don't have enough money for a downpayment until the kid arrives.  And it's also quite possible that moving/looking for houses isn't convienent until you are on maternity leave.  I know my mom didn't move to a new place until I was a week or so old, and it was the same with my youngest brother.  Granted these were rentals, but I could see the same situation being more likely to play out if you were buying.

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  Erin commented on the article | almost 2 years ago

  275,000 Will Die Without Reform

  Small correction- federal Medicaid does not universally cover the  poor.  That is a myth.  Neither does Medicare universally cover the elderly.  There are large holes within each program.  Filling in those holes might be a first step.

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  Erin commented on the article | almost 2 years ago

  275,000 Will Die Without Reform

  I'll remember that next time I'm discharged from the ER with a 92 oxygen stat and unable to breathe.  It's just fear mongering- no reason to believe I'm in imment danger of death from asthma.

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  Erin commented on the article | almost 2 years ago

  FDA: Your Ear Is Not a Candlestick

  Use the ear candle in your ear.  And then just light a candle and let it burn.  Compare the gunk inside it- it will look the same.

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  Erin commented on the article | almost 2 years ago

  FDA: Your Ear Is Not a Candlestick

  I remember watching The View (in middle school...) where they were saying that the candles were removing wax from the ear.  Yes, somehow the canldes were able to pull your ear wax from your ear and deposit it in the tube.  And, you know what the evidence was?  The wax in the candle!  Because, there's no OTHER reason wax would be in a CANDLE?!?

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  Erin commented on the article | about 2 years ago

  Chemical Regulation Keeps the Doctor Away

  1%?  That's a nice, round number.  What's the cite?  Who published the study?  Was it peer reviewed?  What is included in the statistic?  Smoking?

  
  

  42.7% of all statistics are made up on the spot.  Without a cite, your stats are useless. 

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  Erin commented on the article | about 2 years ago

  How Republicans Are Winning on Health Reform

  I'm tired.  Hopelessly uninsured and tired.

  
  

  I predict that this healthcare bill will only be mildly better that what we have now.  I also predict it will be repealed before 2014.  I think that this bill has sufficently halted all state level changes, and honestly- right now I think individual states need to step up to the plate and start making plans for universal healthCARE in their states.  Because the federal government obviously cannot do so, at least not in any reasonable or timely fashion.