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Re:Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims by vkou on Monday January 07, 2019 @03:39PM (#18849789)
This problem didn't start in 2017, it started with the Reagan presidency.
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Re:Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims by basementcat on Monday January 07, 2019 @04:38PM (#18850425)
This started long before Reagan. Even Andrew Jackson allowed the Charter of the ancestor of the Federal Reserve to expire.
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Re:Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims by vkou on Monday January 07, 2019 @05:48PM (#18851071)
The consequences of which affect precisely nobody today.

In 2019, we are living in a world where one of the two parties made bad government a cornerstone of their party's policy, ~35 years ago. We are now reaping the wages of that decision.

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Re:Tennessee doctors earn big money denying disability claims by pnutjam on Monday January 07, 2019 @07:43PM (#18851842)
Yes, this is largely because disability has become the defacto welfare system.
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