W.R. Grace wishes Libby, Montana, would just disappear from the map

what're ya gonna do when you've gotta ante up for the environmental and human destruction wreaked by your heedless extractive mining practices and insatiable thirst for profits...? why, try to stem your losses, of course, by closing down that nasty little health clinic that's got the goods on you...

As W. R. Grace & Company prepares for a major criminal trial over widespread asbestos contamination here, doctors at the clinic that has treated hundreds of asbestos victims accuse the company of trying to discredit them and force the clinic to close.

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Grace, a producer of chemicals and building materials, voluntarily pays for most of the medical treatment at the clinic. In recent months, the company's medical plan administrator imposed new rules that have made reimbursement more lengthy and involved, and pushed the clinic, its administrators say, into a cash-flow crisis. And the administrator said that a review it commissioned of past medical diagnoses in Libby found flaws in more than a quarter of the cases.

does anyone besides me see anything familiar here...? does it at all remind you of the countless stories we have seen over the past six years where those who are trying to bring truth to light are discredited, made to fight never-ending legal challenges, fired outright, and/or had their lives and reputations irreversibly damaged...? (look no further than the previous post...)

it's not like this kind of crap suddenly appeared when bush was elected president... but when that president and those around him have repeatedly given tacit permission for such behavior, is it any wonder it's become commonplace...?

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