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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:09 PM Original message |
Tom Coburn Thinks Seniors Should Pay for Health Care by Baking Cookies & Bartering Chickens |
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Denninmi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:12 PM Response to Original message |
1. Well, if they make it legal tender for medical bills, I'm in. |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:14 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. He said Medicare is the reason our health care system is so shitty...someone call this asshole out! |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
3. Just yesterday I heard/read several talking heads saying how |
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jtown1123 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:18 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. He is unbelievable. I can't imagine his constituents on Medicare were too thrilled. n/t |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
4. The system was better before Medicare and Medicaid? |
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bowens43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
5. wow. |
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Bonhomme Richard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:20 PM Response to Original message |
7. How many chickens would it take to pay for cancer treatment? |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. Coburn's a medical doctor. Ask him to open his books and let us |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:40 PM Response to Reply #7 |
20. Is he suggesting that people grow chickens in their apartments? |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 04:37 PM Response to Reply #7 |
28. It used to take at least 2 chickens for a simple visit to the doctors |
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maxsolomon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
8. is there an oklahoma equivalent of elizabeth warren? |
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izquierdista (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. She's FROM Oklahoma |
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DearAbby (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:22 PM Response to Original message |
9. Well shit |
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madokie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:23 PM Response to Original message |
10. This is where I live, this is the hospital I'll be going to first in case of an accident |
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ladywnch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:32 PM Response to Original message |
12. this is old stuff... this came out during the health care 'debate'. n/t |
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DirkGently (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:33 PM Response to Original message |
13. Maybe we can trade Mr. Coburn for a chicken? At least they produce something useful. |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:36 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Even chicken shit has more use than this guy. At least that makes my vegetables grow. NT |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:35 PM Response to Original message |
14. I say we pay Sen. Coburn in baked goods and chickens for the next year |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:41 PM Response to Reply #14 |
21. Imagine doing your taxes. You'd have to convert each chicken into |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
17. I doubt that Obama's family got any aid at all from those programs |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
18. Whoa , serious error in the headline! |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:39 PM Response to Original message |
19. Show me in the Constitution where it says . . . |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:44 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. You have to love it when they pull out the Constitution to illustrate for you |
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HughBeaumont (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 05:25 PM Response to Reply #22 |
30. And, in turn, just how little he and the rest of the "I Gots Mine" crowd care for how fucked we are. |
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Permanut (477 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 03:50 PM Response to Original message |
23. So if I get treatment for, say, prostate cancer |
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Feron (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 04:03 PM Response to Original message |
24. Sounds like a great deal if you are a lecherous doctor.. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 04:33 PM Response to Original message |
25. That worked when 92% of the people lived in rural areas in 1930. |
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pepito (38 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
26. stop paying for his perks |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
27. Fuck him and everyone else who thinks like him. |
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guitar man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 07:04 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Don't hold back now |
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OverBurn (31 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Aug-18-11 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
29. Wonder how many |
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