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    ABC News‏Verified account @ABC Jun 3

    Coal lobby fights black lung tax as disease rates surge. https://abcn.ws/2J7mHSb pic.twitter.com/X1QSFiyARQ

    8:12 PM - 3 Jun 2018
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      2. Kathy Higgins Jeffers‏ @KathyJeffers3 Jun 3
        Replying to @ABC @soledadobrien

        This is obscene, absolutely obscene! There were special programs within ACA that covered Black Lung Disease Programs but these were discontinued. What is wrong with Republican legislators who refuse to demand basic healthcare coverage for their constituents? Where is the outrage?

        1 reply 2 retweets 5 likes
      3. YouCan'tFixStupid2‏ @LadyYoucan Jun 3
        Replying to @KathyJeffers3 @ABC @soledadobrien

        2 things stand out in this article. 1:They're trying to blame it on smoking. Dr. disputes this. X-rays can tell the difference. 2:Republican party refused to hear this argument after being bullied by coal lobbyists. WHY????? But Potus will help, I'm sure.👀

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      4. Nationalist FREEDOM  ❌‏ @coalmining24 Jun 3
        Replying to @LadyYoucan @KathyJeffers3 and

        I am a retire miner. Most people who get their black lung settlements, are smokers, now X-rays may tell the difference Idk? To get federal Black lung, you have to breathe at a 62 or below. Smokers generally have trouble meeting those numbers especially if they’ve been a miner.

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      5. YouCan'tFixStupid2‏ @LadyYoucan Jun 3
        Replying to @coalmining24 @KathyJeffers3 and

        The article says the new X-rays can tell the difference, quoted by a Dr who is trying to help coal miners. The Republicans refused to take it up once lobbyists came after them. I just read the article. I hope you get to keep your insurance. No one is against helping anyone.

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      6. Nationalist FREEDOM  ❌‏ @coalmining24 Jun 3
        Replying to @LadyYoucan @KathyJeffers3 and

        I have never smoked a day in my life, and have been turned down three times on my state Black lung, I guess I try and get my federal black lung. Coal companies are dirty as hell thats for sure! Only job that I ever had that I absolutely loved, if I were able I’d still be mining!

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      7. YouCan'tFixStupid2‏ @LadyYoucan Jun 3
        Replying to @coalmining24 @KathyJeffers3 and

        Well, if you read the article the Dr is saying that ppl are being turned away, blamed on smoking, but government is defunding the program, and capable X-rays that CAN tell the difference. I'm sorry this is happening to you, I do wish you the best.

        1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
      8. Nationalist FREEDOM  ❌‏ @coalmining24 Jun 3
        Replying to @LadyYoucan @KathyJeffers3 and

        Thank you! It’ll all work out how it’s supposed too, I don’t let it get me down.

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      9. YouCan'tFixStupid2‏ @LadyYoucan Jun 3
        Replying to @coalmining24 @KathyJeffers3 and

        I sincerely wish you the best.

        0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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      2. She came undone‏ @shecameundone Jun 3
        Replying to @ABC

        pic.twitter.com/Rrii1frOFB

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      3. Victoria‏ @WickedGin1949 Jun 3
        Replying to @shecameundone @ABC

        I wish someone would take Trump on a tour of a underground coal mine! Let's see how clean his face looks like afterwards, he doesn't even know how much coal dust these guys are breathing for 8 or more hours daily. I went on a tour, I have so much respect for coal miners

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      2. Nana J‏ @nanaj79 Jun 3
        Replying to @ABC @GideonNeptune

        ...and Trump wants the American taxpayers to bail out the coal companies

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      3. Nationalist FREEDOM  ❌‏ @coalmining24 Jun 3
        Replying to @nanaj79 @ABC @GideonNeptune

        I worked 24 yrs underground. These companies are dirty as hell, they fight any man that is told by a DR he has Black lung, and to file for it. I know I’ve been turned down 3 times!

        1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
      4. Nana J‏ @nanaj79 Jun 3
        Replying to @coalmining24 @ABC @GideonNeptune

        Wishing you success as you fight them

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      5. Gideon Neptune‏ @GideonNeptune Jun 3
        Replying to @nanaj79 @ABC

        From me, too.

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      6. Nationalist FREEDOM  ❌‏ @coalmining24 Jun 3
        Replying to @GideonNeptune @nanaj79 @ABC

        Thank you!

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      1. 骗子‏ @arXiv6174 Jun 3
        Replying to @ABC

        Those lobbying for so that more people get black lung are sitting in air conditioned offices with fat bank accounts to pad their out of touch lives.

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      1. Hawkeye Jill‏ @estepjill Jun 3
        Replying to @ABC @soledadobrien

        Again. Money. Follow it.

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      1. Victoria‏ @WickedGin1949 Jun 3
        Replying to @ABC

        I wish someone would take Trump on a tour of a underground coal mine! Let's see how clean his face looks like afterwards, he doesn't even know how much coal dust these guys are breathing for 8 or more hours daily. I went on a tour, I have so much respect for coal miners

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