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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: SSG Snuggle Bunny on October 04, 2011, 09:48:32 AM
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Because not one of the little ****tards would chip in to pay for their own beloved icon:
Whoa_Nelly (1000+ posts) Mon Oct-03-11 10:51 PM
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'Norma Rae' Dead at 68 After Struggle With Her Insurance Company to Get Chemo
Source: C&L
It's the death of an American icon, a working-class woman who stood up for her rights and unionized her workplace. And wouldn't you know it? She fought the mills, but she couldn't make her insurance company do the decent thing until it was too late:
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As Daily Kos blogger hissyspit points out, last year Sutton gave an interview to the press where she described a struggle with her health insurer over treatment. The Times-News in Burlington, North Carolina, wrote in 2008:
went two months without possible life-saving medications because her insurance wouldn’t cover it, another example of abusing the working poor, she said.
“How in the world can it take so long to find out (whether they would cover the medicine or not) when it could be a matter of life or death,†she said. “It is almost like, in a way, committing murder.â€
She eventually received the medication, but the cancer is taking a toll on her strong will and solid frame.
Read more: http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/norma-rae-dead-6...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x2049702
They wouldn't even hold a ****ing bake sale, the greedy little shits!
Of course what follows in the thread is a near-riot about how this was murder by insurance fraud or something.
I think I may have found the culprit, the plug-puller, the triggerman:
In a nationally televised event at the White House, Obama said families need better information so they don't unthinkingly approve "additional tests or additional drugs that the evidence shows is not necessarily going to improve care."
He added: "Maybe you're better off not having the surgery, but taking the painkiller."
Obama said he has personal familiarity with such a dilemma. His grandmother, Madelyn Dunham, was diagnosed with terminal cancer and given less than nine months to live, he said.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/jun/25/nation/na-health25
Near as I can tell the insurance company was only following orders from Herr Reich-Chancellor.
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...and she wasn't dying fast enough to suit Obama. So he flew out to make sure she died before anyone could ask her to many questions about himself.
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All of this happened two years ago. They have very short memories. Oh and
Yo_Mama (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-04-11 09:44 AM
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61. She was on Medicare
Maybe she was on a Medicare Advantage plan, but she was on Medicare.
Medicare does allow experimental treatments, and two months sounds about right for their approval process. The standard treatment for meningioma is watching and surgery to remove troublesome tumors. She had an odd variant for which there is no known treatment.
But seriously, the poor lady was on Medicare, and I think it is important to know this, especially since other people like the woman who writes this blog are trying to make sure that Medicare patients can get off-label treatments:
DonCoquixote (1000+ posts) Tue Oct-04-11 11:01 AM
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67. The REAL ****ign death panel.
And how much you want to bet that the Tea party types are lighting cigars and pouring champagne? If they could have simply stood Norma Rae before the firing squad, they would have. Instead, they went for slow torture here.
::) DUmbass. Two years ago.
The Medicare things was ignored.
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The Medicare things was ignored.
Their chants of "MEDICARE FOR ALL!" sound scarier than ever.
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Why didn't the CalPig buy medicine for her fellow moonbat?
A DUmbass who can afford a vacation in Iceland could easily pay for any kind of Medicare-rejected bogus treatment.
If she bought that other freeloader a Harley, and sent Norma Rae to the Dominican Republic for treatment with bear gall bladders and tiger whiskers, she'd never, ever miss the money.
She could even send DUmmy Straight Story the money for his sympathy skydiving sessions, and help Beth avoid eviction from her camper.
I can only conclude that the CalPig is a selfish, uncompassionate, uncaring bitch, who enjoys seeing DUmbasses suffer.
Welcome aboard, CalPig!
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Where was poor stupid Beth to start a DUmmy Land fund raiser?