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Title: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on August 27, 2010, 10:53:06 AM
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prolesunited  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Aug-27-10 12:48 AM
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As seen on Olbermann, free clinic in NOLA needs donations
   
Remember how your heart was breaking five years ago? Here's your chance to help.

http://freeclinics.us/

Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

It's a FREE clinic. The operative word "free" explicitly means it does not cost money.

Why does a FREE clinic need money?

Maybe you should rename it, "a clinic wholly dependent on money provided by people other than those consuming its resources."

And once you have duly renamed it remember that name every time you idiots prattle-on about all the FREE shit ObamaCare is supposed to bestow.

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Iwillnevergiveup  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this author  Click to view this author's profile  Click to add this author to your buddy list  Click to add this author to your Ignore list      Fri Aug-27-10 02:46 PM
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10. If I remember correctly
   
they were about $200,000 short and 600 people had already signed up to be treated. The health clinic could easily spend a whole week in New Orlens fer crying out loud.

Please keep this kicked!

http://upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9023889

$200,000 / 600 = $333.33 per patient

1. Going rate for a check-up with a family practitioner is about $90.00

2. An insurance company pays about $60.00.

3. This clinic runs a waiting list?

4. A waiting list with 600 people on it!

5. It's a private charity, not a government program.

TAKE AWAY:

* So-called "free" clinics operate under deceptive tiles because they are not free.

* Actually, your free clinic runs about 4 times higher than the services provided by evil insurance companies.

* Expect long waits

* The existence of private charities--even poorly run charities--undercuts the argument for centralized government control.

* Do not expect liberals to detect even the slightest hint if what they are trying to impose on the rest of the US by their unceasing quest for more stuff that costs other people but which they have no intention of paying for with their own money.


Of course what is really driving that thread isn't so much a quest provide for their own well-being but a desperate attempt to show KO as being relevant.

"Oh look! Keith mentioned this charity so now they can finally get some funding! Keith still matters! Take THAT Rush Limbaugh, with your multi-million dollar donations!"
Title: Re: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: AllosaursRus on August 27, 2010, 11:05:35 AM
Given that OlberDork is the one askin' for donations, everyone of his listeners is goin' to have to put up $2,000 in order to make the $200,000! Or maybe that should be $20,000 apiece!

Loser!
Title: Re: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: true_blood on August 27, 2010, 12:11:36 PM
Given that OlberDork is the one askin' for donations, everyone of his listeners is goin' to have to put up $2,000 in order to make the $200,000! Or maybe that should be $20,000 apiece!

Loser!

HA HA!! You said it brother! :cheersmate:
F'en Odorman. I can't stand that douche. They have about 4 or 5 viewers that could help out with the donation.
Title: Re: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on August 27, 2010, 07:48:09 PM
Given that OlberDork is the one askin' for donations, everyone of his listeners is goin' to have to put up $2,000 in order to make the $200,000! Or maybe that should be $20,000 apiece!

Loser!
You'd think Olby would want all the cred himself and give them the $200k. He can afford it, after all.
Title: Re: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: true_blood on August 27, 2010, 08:49:11 PM
You'd think Olby would want all the cred himself and give them the $200k. He can afford it, after all.

Yeah, he can afford it, but he's a lib/progressive. They don't donate to charity. :censored:
Title: Re: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: Chris_ on August 27, 2010, 09:09:46 PM
Maybe you should rename it, "a clinic wholly dependent on money provided by people other than those consuming its resources."
It wouldn't fit on the sign. :rofl:
Title: Re: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: Boudicca on August 27, 2010, 10:18:22 PM
It wouldn't fit on the sign. :rofl:

Mooch General?  It would fit lengthwise and descriptively.
Title: Re: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: jukin on August 27, 2010, 10:33:12 PM
Mr. S.B.

Well played, well played indeed.

Note that most of those $60/aspirin hospitals are NOT FOR PROFIT outfits.
Title: Re: Some left the irony on and DU can't smell the burning
Post by: JohnnyReb on August 28, 2010, 03:18:37 AM
Being poor has become a profession....and it's a growth industry. I see people putting forth more effort in obtaining free stuff than they put into trying to get a job or earning money. Being poor pays better.