On 12-20-09, BOB ACKLEY said to ROSS SAUER:


BA>Replying to a message of Ross Sauer to All:


RS> Just how desperate is the right-wing?


RS> Well, Michael Goldfarb, a blogger at the Weekly Standard
RS> simply made up a story, about Senator Ben Nelson losing a
RS> military base in his state, unless he supported Obama's
RS> health care bill.


BA>There is precisely one active military installation in the state of
BA>Nebraska, Offutt AFB.  Note that the base has been significantly
BA>downsized over the past decade or so - one can now see vacant
BA>parking spaces on it (it usedta was that 75% of the parking
BA>spaces on the base were reserved for 25% of the vehicles using
BA>them).  The base hospital at Offutt was closed in 2004 and
BA>replaced by a clinic, and that clinic is slowly being downsized -
BA>one has to make an appointment to be seen at the former walk-in
BA>Urgent Care Center (which usedtawas the hospital's Emergency Room);
BA>there are very few AF physicians there now, nearly all are civilians
BA>or contractors.


BA>Note that the University of Nebraska Medical Center is building
BA>a brand spanking new 25 inpatient bed hospital about one mile
BA>north of the former AF hospital.  Specifically for patients who
BA>were formerly seen at the AF facility (the next nearest hospital,
BA>not run by the UNMC, is about seven miles from the base and has
BA>been getting AF patients since 2004).


Don't flood Otto with facts like that......he gets headaches!


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