Koken Resigns as Pa. Commissioner After Serving 10 Years

February 14, 2007

  • February 14, 2007 at 4:12 am
    Grateful says:
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    Very grateful to Ms. Koken for all her hard work in expanding the CHIPS program. In the mid 90\’s, I worked with a divorced woman that had a 17 old son who\’d been newly diagnosed with Tourettes. She could not afford to participate in our office health insurance (was making under $20,000 a year in a clerical spot) and she became consumed with worry over her son\’s health. Her worry gave way to rage and resentment and she became increasingly hostile and unpleasant to work with. At the time, she\’d been told her son was \”too old\” to qualify for CHIPS.

  • February 15, 2007 at 10:11 am
    Chip says:
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    \”…worry gave way to rage and resentment and she became increasingly hostile and unpleasant to work with. At the time, she\’d been told her son was \’too old\’ to qualify for CHIPS.\”

    Are taxpayers allowed to feel \”rage and resentment\” for having to pay for other people\’s medical bills?

    Koken should be thanked for spending HER OWN money to help some adult stop his nervous twitching, but spending MY money on it does not maker her compassionate, it makes her -and everyone like her- a socialist.

  • February 15, 2007 at 1:58 am
    Rosie says:
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    using a new alias this week, Reagan? your neo-con schtick is obvious.

    If governemnt fails to address health care, all economic sectors will collapse

  • February 15, 2007 at 2:44 am
    Chip says:
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    I have never used \”reagan\” as a moniker, ya d-o-p-e. Govt needs to get outa health care at every level, or it will collapse and we will end up with hillarycare by default. If you think that health care is expensive now, just wait until it\’s \”free.\”

  • February 16, 2007 at 5:48 am
    Proo says:
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    Natasha Wallen Cornett, 19 in 1997, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Less than two weeks before the massacre of the Lillelids, she had been released from the Charter Ridge Behavioural Centre in Lexington, Kentucky due to insufficient medical insurance.
    Who is to say if medical treatment could have prevented Cornett from evolving into a woman in prison for the rest of her life for being a part of a gruesome and heartbreaking massacre murder of the Lillelids.

    An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cured.

  • February 16, 2007 at 9:24 am
    Chip says:
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    Ok, so let\’s confiscate everything everyone owns and establish a socialist paradise like Cuba, where this never happens – unless it\’s the government rounding people up and killing them instead of crazy people.



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