seattle.politics

On Aug 24, 2:29 pm, "Jerry Okamura" wrote:
> "Gogarty" wrote in message
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> news:hoednYBfp8o1elPbnZ2dnUVZ_uLinZ2d@ ...
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> > In article < ...@ >,
> > Jimse...@ says...
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> >>On Aug 23, 11:22 pm, "Alohacyberian" wrote:
> >>> This Is London quotes Catherine Brown's mother, Sheila Keeling, who was
> >>> present as her daughter went into [premature] labour:
>
> >>YOU have offered a few examples in some sort of attempt
> >>to sway the opinion of citizens against universal healthcare.
>
> >>DON'T YOU SEE that we MUST have universal care because
> >>of the FAILURES and INEQUITIES of our current system?
>
> >>Would you like to give your opinion to the woman in the emergency
> >>room in Calif. who bled to death while passersby tried to call 911
> >>but she was not helped because she was already IN the hospital.
>
> >>Would you like to explain you poor opinion of universal health care
> >>to the 47 MILLION, (YES, I said MILLION) Americans who have NO
> >>health care coverage at all.
>
> >>Perhaps you would like to explain your position to the tens of
> >>thousands
> >>of doctors who are unable to do their work because they must call
> >>some 800 number and talk to an office worker to get PERMISSION to give
> >>the needed treatment. Let's see is their card number valid? What was
> >>the expiration
> >>date (of the card NOT the patient!!!!!).
>
> >>Would you care to explain how the poitically connected current system
> >>with its PRIOR EXCLUSIONS and elaborate avoidance of paying for
> >>UNUSUAL conditions is in any way proper for the greatest country on
> >>earth - a country whose health care system ranks WELL BELOW other
> >>lesser countries. YOU PERHAPS did not know that the leading cause of
> >>personal bankrupcy in this country is health care expenses.
>
> >>ANY TIME YOU WOULD LIKE TO EXPLAIN HOW OUR CURRENT SYSTEM HEALTH
> >>"CARE" (SIC) SYSTEM IS THE CORRECT ONE, WE WOULD ALL LIKE TO HEAR
> >>WHATEVER ARGUMENTS YOU MIGHT CARE TO ADVANCE.
>
> >>THANKS
> >>CitizenJimserac
> >>SICKO SOCKS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM THAT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> > Hear! Hear! Any future health care plan with which the private insurance
> > industry has anything to do at all will fail. And that of course is what
> > we are going to get, a tweak, not an overhaul.
>
> "Private insurance" includes auto insurance, life insurance, casualty
> insurance...have they failed?

Why not ask the people who survived katrina only to discover exactly
what their homeowners insurance construes as "wind" damage vs "water
damage".


Citizen Jimserac