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.

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

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

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