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No more mandatory HIV testing at border??
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 4:24 pm
by Roy Pitchford
I picked up the newest Popular Science today. I was looking through it and I saw something along the bottom of the page.
Bottom of page 32:
January 4: The US government stops a 22-year-old ban on HIV-positive immigrants and drops HIV testing from the required medical exam.
Does that strike anyone else as worth worrying about?
Re: No more mandatory HIV testing at border??
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:15 pm
by Grace O'Malley
I want to return to our founding documents. Make the government smaller and less involved in our lives. More freedom.
Jim, it sounds as though you want to government larger and more involved in our lives. Less freedom.
Why Roy, I would think that, according to your stated principles, you would be happy that the government is becoming less intrusive and interfering.
especially when it comes to butting their noses into health issues!
And think of the monetary savings, to boot!
Re: No more mandatory HIV testing at border??
Posted: Sat Jan 16, 2010 9:31 pm
by Stephen Eisel
Grace O'Malley wrote:I want to return to our founding documents. Make the government smaller and less involved in our lives. More freedom.
Jim, it sounds as though you want to government larger and more involved in our lives. Less freedom.
Why Roy, I would think that, according to your stated principles, you would be happy that the government is becoming less intrusive and interfering.
especially when it comes to butting their noses into health issues!
And think of the monetary savings, to boot!
more freedom for non-citizens????
Re: No more mandatory HIV testing at border??
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 8:49 am
by Charlie Page
Roy Pitchford wrote:I picked up the newest Popular Science today. I was looking through it and I saw something along the bottom of the page.
Bottom of page 32:
January 4: The US government stops a 22-year-old ban on HIV-positive immigrants and drops HIV testing from the required medical exam.
Does that strike anyone else as worth worrying about?
The Feds probably wised up that 99.99% are here illegally anyway.
Did PS say how many HIV pos immigrants were turned away over the last 22 years? Any trend? Cost?
Re: No more mandatory HIV testing at border??
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 9:05 am
by ryan costa
they are much more likely to have some form of hepatitis or tuberculosis than HIV.
Re: No more mandatory HIV testing at border??
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 10:18 am
by Roy Pitchford
Grace O'Malley wrote:I want to return to our founding documents. Make the government smaller and less involved in our lives. More freedom.
Jim, it sounds as though you want to government larger and more involved in our lives. Less freedom.
Why Roy, I would think that, according to your stated principles, you would be happy that the government is becoming less intrusive and interfering.
especially when it comes to butting their noses into health issues!
And think of the monetary savings, to boot!
Any concern is more with the second portion (testing) of the statement than the first (lifting the ban).
I want to return to our founding documents.
United States Constitution wrote:We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
I don't know, seems like it would be well within the confines of the Constitution.
Re: No more mandatory HIV testing at border??
Posted: Sun Jan 17, 2010 11:59 am
by Jim DeVito
Since I did not know they were testing in the first place personally this is problem they least of my worries at the end of the day. Perhaps they should use any money saved to better fund HIV testing for americans. Never mind that is too much government intervention anyway. I don't want to pay for any HIV testing.
Anyhoo, interesting article thank for bringing it up Roy.