New GOP rep: Sick kids shouldn't get health insurance

kpete

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:18 PM
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New GOP rep: Sick kids shouldn't get health insurance

New GOP rep: Sick kids shouldn't get health insurance
by Jed Lewison
Wed Jan 05, 2011 at 12:42:03 PM PST

Meet Diane Black, the new GOP congresswoman from Tennessee�s sixth congressional district. Like most all of her GOP colleagues, she's eager to repeal health care reform. Why? Because she thinks it's a really bad idea to require insurance companies to provide coverage for sick children:

*****There is a mandate there that insurance companies must insure children up to the age of 24, and what we have found is that there are a lot of insurance companies that are just saying we�re not going to be in this business any longer, because we know that we can�t survive if that�s what we�re going to do.

*****And the second piece of that was to insure children regardless of their health care history, and as a result of that, I know several health care insurance agents in my district who have said we�re just dropping any insurance for children whatsoever.

more plus video:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/5/933588/-New-GOP-rep:-Sick-kids-shouldnt-get-health-insurance

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Duer 157099

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:21 PM
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1. Hey, if insuring sick kids will lead to the demise of the insurance industry

I'm ALL for it, and the sooner the better. Win win.

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DainBramaged

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:23 PM
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2. She has no idea what she is saying, only reading talking points

If she thought for one second about what she said, she would know she will be looked on as the woman who hated kids....

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CherokeeDem

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:24 PM
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3. I keep wondering....

why does the word 'smite' enter my mind when I hear the disgusting stupidity of these idiots?

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aquart

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:27 PM
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4. Ancient Athenians abandoned children they didn't want on mountains.

Where the sick ones died and the merely unloved were picked up by slave traders. This seems to be the Republican ideal.

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PDJane

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:28 PM
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5. Agnes just informed me that,

"One assumes that this woman is 'pro-life' too......so there's even more hypocrisy in the statements.

Agnes is 84 years old, a great believer in abortion, and health care, and unions, and socialism. When I told her that women get more radical with age, she said, "damn right we do. That's because we learn over the intervening years that if we don't say anything, we'll get shafted."

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Vinca

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:29 PM
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6. No health care for sick kids, but a collection of cells in a uterus is sacred.

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eleny

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:51 PM
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7. "....we�re not going to be in this business any longer...."

Good. Then maybe we'll get government health care. Can't happen soon enough.

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walldude

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:54 PM
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8. So let me get this straight...

Insurance companies profits important. Childrens health not. I can't wait to hear how she backs out of this one.

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shanti

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Thu Jan-06-11 05:55 PM
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9. let's see....

so they want them to die? mf'ers....

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madinmaryland

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Thu Jan-06-11 06:25 PM
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10. Note to Ms. Black: I will celebrate the DEATH of any health insurance company.

FUCK THEM ALL!!1!!

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felix_numinous

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Thu Jan-06-11 06:58 PM
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11. Then she is arguing in favor of socialized medicine

because that would solve everyone's problems, including insurance companies. They have enough other ways to make money, life and malpractice insurance for example.

Just stop the wars and bailing out banks and wall street, and provide universal healthcare.

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