How Offensive of Congress To Use Term ‘Retarded’ In Health Care Bill

This story is just sickening on the part of Congress. Didnt Obama learn from bowling fiasco?

Story Via Pat Dollard.com

July 27, 2009

The proposed health-insurance bill from the House of Representatives refers to mentally disabled people as “retarded” — a term advocates, relatives and physicians find outdated and offensive.

The bill refers to: “A hospital or a nursing facility or intermediate-care facility for the mentally retarded . . .”

The phrase could cause more problems with groups for the developmentally disabled, who were angered when President Obama referred to his poor bowling skills on “The Tonight Show” as “like the Special Olympics.” Obama later apologized.

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