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Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« on: October 01, 2009, 09:12:45 AM »
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Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not afford health care.
   
Please post your stories, or just check in.

My mother would be alive today if she had had access to health care. She was destitute and dying before she qualified for Medicaid. She died from a form of cancer that's highly curable if caught early.

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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2009, 09:21:41 AM »
Check in HERE if you know of a very wealthy family who got that way because they sued the sweet complete shit out of some medical entity because said entity refused to treat a family member and said family member died.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2009, 09:23:41 AM »
Good Lord.  The "I didn't have $$ to pay for a doctor visit" can easily be translated to:

1.  I am scared of doctors offices so I didn't go.

or

2.  I am so self involved, I would rather pay for my cable TV than pay to go to the doctor.

I doubt that there are that many naive people that wither away into martyrdom due to a lack of insurance.  It is just a nifty blanket excuse, because no one wants to be responsible for themselves, and then do a bad job.

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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #3 on: October 01, 2009, 09:35:11 AM »
My great great great great grandfather died because he didn't have health insurance.  So did his kids, wife, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and dog.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #4 on: October 01, 2009, 09:56:50 AM »
Check in if you know someone that always had health care and was in good shape but smoked and got cancer or some other variation of the personal choices thing.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #5 on: October 01, 2009, 05:25:12 PM »
Quote from: mamacags on October 01, 2009, 09:35:11 AM
My great great great great grandfather died because he didn't have health insurance.  So did his kids, wife, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, neighbors, and dog.
My great grandparents died without health insurance.  Of course, they were 89 and 97...  doesn't that still count?   :mental:
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #6 on: October 01, 2009, 05:31:45 PM »
I know people who had health insurance and died anyway...imagine that?
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« Reply #7 on: October 01, 2009, 05:45:17 PM »
I have heard that dying is the leading cause of death, but little research is being done to prevent it.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #8 on: October 01, 2009, 05:50:06 PM »
This is out of the Obama Administration.

I know a trial balloon will fail when the DUmpmonkeys pick up on it.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #9 on: October 01, 2009, 06:44:35 PM »
I had an uncle that drank a lot.  People kept telling him that all that drinking would kill him....

Sure enough, it killed him....

He died 3 years ago, at the age of 91....
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #10 on: October 01, 2009, 07:03:22 PM »
Click HERE if your taxes pay for 3rd generation welfare queens, 3rd generation food stamp recipients, health care for illegals, pork-barrel projects, salaries to lifetime politicians, abortions....
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #11 on: October 01, 2009, 08:30:51 PM »
Quote from: Hawkgirl on October 01, 2009, 05:31:45 PM
I know people who had health insurance and died anyway...imagine that?
If we had socialized medicine they would all still be alive.
No one dies under O-care.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #12 on: October 01, 2009, 08:32:44 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on October 01, 2009, 08:30:51 PM
If we had socialized medicine they would all still be alive.
No one dies under O-care.

Thinking the same thing.

Click HERE if all those people would have died anyway...
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #13 on: October 01, 2009, 08:38:45 PM »
Check in here if you've had your earnings stolen by some douchebag liberal politician to pay for someone too damned sorry to do for themselves.

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« Reply #14 on: October 01, 2009, 08:40:13 PM »
Quote from: Rebel on October 01, 2009, 08:38:45 PM
Check in here if you've had your earnings stolen by some douchebag liberal politician to pay for someone too damned sorry to do for themselves.

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« Reply #15 on: October 01, 2009, 08:42:45 PM »
Rule #1: The death rate of all humans is 100%. 

Rule #2: You cannot change Rule #1, no matter if there is "free" health care for all or not.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not a
« Reply #16 on: October 01, 2009, 08:45:36 PM »
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Rule #1: The death rate of all humans is 100%. 

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« Reply #17 on: October 01, 2009, 09:06:46 PM »
I understand that there are 200 year olds walking around Europe.  Ain't insurance great. 
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« Reply #18 on: October 01, 2009, 09:12:33 PM »
Quote from: Doc Savage on October 01, 2009, 09:06:46 PM
I understand that there are 200 year olds walking around Europe.  Ain't insurance great. 

yet millions of abortions performed annually ....ain't hypocracy a bitch? 
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #19 on: October 01, 2009, 09:39:46 PM »
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I understand that there are 200 year olds walking around Europe.  Ain't insurance great. 


yet millions of abortions performed annually ....ain't hypocracy a bitch? 


Well, that's one thing you don't have to worry about with a 200-year-old chick.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #20 on: October 01, 2009, 10:20:39 PM »
Check in here if you know of someone who, or if you yourself, went to Will Ferrell's website, Funny or Die, and actually died.  Even if you or they had or didn't have health insurance.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #21 on: October 01, 2009, 11:09:50 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on October 01, 2009, 08:30:51 PM
If we had socialized medicine they would all still be alive.
No one dies under O-care.

That would kinda suck, wouldn't it?  I mean when the zombie hordes of primitives roam the streets and countryside in search of other people's wealth, I'd kinda like 'em to drop for good when I pass the slug through their medula oblongata.  None of this "Cowboys and Indians" shit, where they lie down for 30 seconds then get up good as new again - or argue with you about who shot who where....
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #22 on: October 01, 2009, 11:41:28 PM »
click HERE if you think the number of doctors and specialists won't DROP if universal healthcare is passed.
click HERE if you think the wait times to get a procedure won't increase.
click HERE if you think there will not be the same deductibles you are currently paying now with your employer's insurance plan.
click HERE if you think your doctor and YOU will make decisions about your health and not some suit who is only concerned about crunching numbers..
Click HERE if you believe you will have the same access to medical procedures as our senior citizens CURRENTLY have under MEDICARE(which is going to have massive CUTS if this bill gets passed.)
click HERE if you believe YOUR federal taxes won't go UP (that is you have a job)

CLICK HERE IF YOU ARE A TOTAL IGNORANT DUMBASS.
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Re: Check in HERE if you know of someone who has died because he/she could not affor
« Reply #23 on: October 02, 2009, 12:06:41 AM »
Quote from: Rebel on October 01, 2009, 08:38:45 PM
Check in here if you've had your earnings stolen by some douchebag liberal politician to pay for someone too damned sorry to do for themselves.

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