Priorities ad ties Romney to lost health insurance, cancer death

[BeyondGeography]

The Obama super PAC Priorities USA Action is unveiling perhaps the harshest, most personal ad of the 2012 presidential race, featuring a former worker at a Bain-owned company talking about the death of his wife after their family lost health insurance.

The commercial casts Mitt Romney’s business background in a severely negative light, but it’s not a typical slash-and-burn attack ad. Instead, it features former GST Steel employee Joe Soptic speaking to the camera about what happened when the plant where he worked shut down.

“I don’t think Mitt Romney understands what he’s done to people’s lives by closing the plant. I don’t think he realizes that people’s lives completely changed,” Soptic said. “When Mitt Romney and Bain closed the plant, I lost my healthcare and my family lost their healthcare. And a short time after that my wife became ill.”

He continues: “I don’t know how long she was sick and I think maybe she didn’t say anything because she knew that we couldn’t afford the insurance. And then one day she became ill and I took her up to the Jackson County Hospital and admitted her for pneumonia and that’s when they found the cancer and by then it was stage four. It was – there was nothing they could do for her. And she passed away in 22 days.

“I do not think Mitt Romney realizes what he’s done to anyone,” Soptic concludes. “And furthermore, I do not think Mitt Romney is concerned.”

http://www.politico.com/blogs/burns-haberman/2012/08/priorities-ad-ties-romney-to-lost-health-insurance-131276.html?hp=l4

[Scuba]

1. Hey, Mitt made a couple grand off each firing. Capitalism rules!

sarcasm thingy here

[rfranklin]

6. That's the key...Romney profited from all these Bain deals...whether or not he was in charge...

which is always how they try to distance him from the rotten results for the employees.

[jerseyjack]

2. We need to expand the focus to include the entirety of capitalism.

The ONLY goal of any for profit corporation is to maximize profits. In fact, the directors are REQUIRED to do this.

In the process of achieving this, the vehicle is, any means necessary. That includes joining ALEC, bribing elected officials with a process called campaign contributions, hiring lobbyists and even hiring guns (check the history of the labor movement).

That means, fuck you, fuck me, fuck the environment, fuck democracy.

All, in the search for profit.

[Atman]

3. Bingo. It the part people seem to miss.

Corporations are REQUIRED to make a profit. There is NO corporation required to "bring good things to life," or any other sweet sounding crap. The ONLY purpose is to make money. And they will do ANYTHING necessary to do so.

[AlbertCat]

7. And they will do ANYTHING necessary to do so.

Corporations are people, my friend....



Horrible, awful, cruel people who, if the WERE people, would be psychotic.

[area51]

14. "The ONLY goal of any for profit corporation is to maximize profits"

This is why it is insane to base our health care system on for-profit insurance gatekeepers! The insurance cos. are there to make a profit, not to help people get well!

We don't need the GingrichCare of mandated, lightly regulated, for-profit insurance that is still too expensive, only pays parts of medical bills, denies claims, bankrupts and kills people.

Republican '93 plan:

[font face="courier"]"Subtitle F: Universal Coverage - Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health care program by January 1, 2005."[/font]

"Employer-based health insurance has always been a bad idea. Your life should not depend on who you work for." -- T. McKeon

[font face="times"]"Any proposal that sticks with our current dependence on for-profit private insurers ... will not be sustainable. And the new law will not get us to universal coverage ...." -- T.R. Reid, The Healing of America[/font]

"Despite the present hyperbole by its supporters, this latest effort will end up as just another failed reform effort littering the landscape of the last century." --John Geyman, M.D., Hijacked! The Road to Single Payer in the Aftermath of Stolen Health Care Reform

[valerief]

4. Of course, Mittfalca doesn't care. Mittfalca only cares about Mittfalca. nt

[trof]

5. Wow. Strong. K&R

[santamargarita]

8. Heartbreaking but Excellent

[Rosa Luxemburg]

9. Wow

Excellent

[Sheepshank]

10. Smacks Romney and Bain in the side of the head...and at the same time

clarifies the need to insurance that is not employer based, and affordable!!!

two fer

[Scalded Nun]

11. What is the difference

between this and so-called 'death panels'? Sad thing is that they would even try and rig those, just like they try and rig everything else.

[polichick]

12. Wow, THIS is the ad they're talking about on Whining Joe?!

I've been traveling and haven't seen TV is several days so logged on DU to catch up.

The crew on Whining Joe thought this ad was sooooooo unfair and horrible. I say, you bet it's unfair and horrible - but not to Mitt Rmoney, to the people his greed devastates.

k&r


Edit: typo/adding k&r

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

13. they were truly awful this a.m.

I don't think they ever went over the top like this when discussing anti Obama ads and how untruthful they were. This had must be hitting the mark.

[polichick]

15. I think you're right - the truth hurts!