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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 07:36 AM
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GOP activists are protecting the Death Panels the Insurance Companies use to DENY lifesaving care
Edited on Tue Aug-11-09 07:59 AM by blm
to those families who can ill-afford to pay the high cost of hospitalization, but, paid their healthcare premiums diligently over the years?

Self-described 'pro-lifers' siding with insurance company death panels that doom the low-income and middle class healthcare patients and their families.

Where is the wall-to-wall coverage by the newsmedia of that ENORMOUSLY IRONIC reality?

Guess they're afraid those insurance companies' death panels will deny them the advertising dollars they crave.
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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 07:37 AM
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1. Good point. The insurance companies do it all the time, a fact
conveniently lost in this discussion.
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C_U_L8R Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 07:47 AM
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2. It's the Republican way...
start blaming others for what you're most guilty of.

Their tricks are wearing thin.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:05 PM
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20. It's the Republican Way. heh....
Edited on Tue Aug-11-09 05:06 PM by blm
I used to say that ALOT onceuponatime. Sad that it is still true.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 07:54 AM
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3. You know I suspect the sudden reversal from Palin
is linked to the fact that the 'pro-lifers' support the private health industry's death panels. Check out Jon Stewart's death panel last night - they did not miss that ENORMOUSLY IRONIC reality!!
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 07:57 AM
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4. I will try to catch the rerun today. Shouldn't the NEWSMEDIA have picked up this OBVIOUS point?
Yeah...sure...as if they're paid to tell the truth to their viewers.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 08:34 AM
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9. Link here
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6272854

Expect nothing related to truth from M$Greedia
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 09:28 AM
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13. Grazie
.
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undeterred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 07:59 AM
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5. We should start referring to the insurance companies as "death panels"
because they really do decide who lives and who dies.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 08:01 AM
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6. Exactly...and not ONE corpmedia news outlet has picked up on that FACT?
.
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 08:13 AM
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7. excellent point. alert the media! (really) eom
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 09:17 AM
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12. I'm all for alerting the media though they haven't been on the side of truth for a few decades now
Edited on Tue Aug-11-09 09:18 AM by blm
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 12:15 PM
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18. let me rephrase . . . alert the media that will listen! like ko and rachel. eom
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 12:56 PM
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19. I know, ellen...but, couldn't pass up opportunity to tell truth about corpmedia
could I? ;)
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ellenfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 06:34 PM
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22. i know. sad, isn't it? eom
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Octafish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 08:20 AM
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8. Health Insurance Industry is one big death panel.
People are denied life-saving procedures, all the time, to save money.

Thanks for putting it into words, blm.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 08:56 AM
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11. Thanks...and back at you.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 08:41 AM
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10. because they're both irony deficient, to our detriment.
excellent observation/post.

k&r
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 09:50 AM
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14. Something tells me the MSM talking heads are PAID to ignore the blatant irony.
The GOP activists being used, otoh, really ARE irony deficient.
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peekaloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 09:53 AM
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15. true. green, leafy stuff is a powerful panacea.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 10:23 AM
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16. Yes, payola has had more success than spinach.
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 10:38 AM
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17. Jesus re GOP activists: "Forgive them, Father, as they know not what they do."
After all, I doubt those good people, some of who have NO HEALTHCARE for themselves and their families, have any clue why their leaders have them out there defending the Healthcare Industry and Insurance Company Death Panels used to deny healthcare to so many in need of leifesaving procedures.

And...those who ARE aware and protest anyway....they're just plain evil fascists like their GOP leaders.
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Wednesdays Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-11-09 05:40 PM
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21. K&R
:kick:
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blm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Aug-12-09 11:33 AM
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23. hey you....longtime no see....did you take a break?
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