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Michael Moore @MMFlint 1hFunny watching the Republicans refusing to applaud the fact the insurance companies can no longer deny ANYONE because of a pre-existing cond
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)Fridays Child
(23,998 posts)It exposes mangled souls.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)MurrayDelph
(5,293 posts)"funny" as in "ha ha!"
I think he meant funny as in "fucking son of a bitch!"
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)thinking it.
libodem
(19,288 posts)Funny peculiar or funny ha ha? Pretty sure Mr Moore means, 'funny' peculiar.
snort
(2,334 posts)Two headed calf and bearded lady.....peculiar.
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)companies want all the expense of sick people to go to the government. They want sick people to either go to a hospital through emergency care or basically die off. As people who make money off of health insurance they are adamantly opposed to sick people.
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)That's the Republican formula.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)I even remember the first time I heard that spelled out, from a friend. It is the perfect description.
mazzarro
(3,450 posts)Socialize the burden of caring for the sick (via emergence rooms); privatize the profit (via premiums).
okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)riqster
(13,986 posts)kwolf68
(7,365 posts)It's like slave labor or environmental degradation. Those costs should be born by the consumer (as a free-market thinker would suggest), however, those costs are passed onto society and the robber barons can maximize their profits despite products being sold at below market value.
The Republican machine is so corrupt and awash in greed that they eschew actual market principles, because those market principles actually are COUNTER to the rush for unbridled profits.
BadgerKid
(4,551 posts)BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)off his teleprompter as if they were part of the speech he was supposed to be delivering?
I can't seem to find the video of that, but as I recall, he was in the middle of a speech and then strangely went with:
"Message"
"Optimism"
(or something like that)
and never seemed to realize he was supposed to be riffing on that point.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)(Skip to 1:45)
BlueStreak
(8,377 posts)I'm thinking he might have been reading from a script rather than a teleprompter. It might not have had ANY speech. His notes might have been nothing but talking points, but he read it out literally in that obnoxious Bushy swagger.
Does anybody have a video of that speech?
cui bono
(19,926 posts)red dog 1
(27,792 posts)I'm a huge fan of Michael Moore.....I've seen all his movies & I like his second movie best, ..
the one he made after "Roger and Me " called ."The Big One".made by a BBC crew following him around on a cross country book tour...it's hilarious!
He can, when he wants to, be a very funny speaker.........near the end of "The Big One", he's speaking to a large crowd, and a woman shouts out..."You should run for President..it would send a message"...
And Michael Moore replies: "What Message?...Eat out more often?"
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)My favorite is "Sicko" which was absolutely brilliant.
Kablooie
(18,628 posts)Why would anyone have a pre existing condition anyway?
Because God is punishing them.
We should not go against God's will so we shouldn't treat their illness.
CANDO
(2,068 posts)What's MM been up to lately? Seems he's been rather out of sight for some time. I wonder if he's been working on something, another movie maybe?
LittleGirl
(8,284 posts)now. He is very hush hush about it.
spanone
(135,827 posts)PatSeg
(47,415 posts)that assholery is a pre-existing condition, but they already have health coverage for life.
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)Highlighted a Down's son and breast cancer survivor that have insurance coverage. Not said is that the ACA is the sole reason those pre-existing conditions are now covered. She applauded the coverage without crediting the reason that coverage now exists.
GoCubsGo
(32,080 posts)...that makes me disagree with those say the president didn't call out the republicans forcefully enough. He didn't need to. Watching them sit on their hands and squirm every time the President Obama brought up a populist issue spoke far more about them than any calling out he could have done.
marias23
(379 posts)It seems Republicans don't care if people to suffer. Perhaps they think they will be rich someday and it will not be a problem for them.
Rex
(65,616 posts)nt.
Dollysmom
(21 posts)A sad fact. There's no money insuring sick people. But you know that