The 99%: Another horrible healthcare experience pic:

[Fire Walk With Me]

[PDJane]

1. This isn't right or fair or intelligent.

Universal health care. For everyone. Equally. Now.

[kestrel91316]

5. "This isn't right or fair or intelligent." - No, but it IS The Amurkan Way (TM).

(smirk)

USA! USA! USA!

[Marazinia]

13. Nationalize all essential goods and services

A man recently robbed a bank to get healthcare when he was turned away for a lump in his chest that he feared was cancer and was refused treatment for his herniated discs. So to save his own life, he went in, handed a teller a note saying he was robbing the bank and he'd be sitting in a chair until police came to arrest him. Which is what the poor guy did.


It's time to nationalize all essential goods and services. If people want to make billions off of non-essentials, I'm all for it. Make our movies and our games, write our novels and publish them, profit from football and basketball, the Olympics, and competitive knitting for all I care. Invest in every form of entertainment and every leisure activity your rich little hearts desire. But no more profit from medicines, HMOs and hospitals, power plants, and giant corporate farms. Nor from clean water, roads, or communication (including internet, because it's vital for free people to be able to communicate). And no more profit from running prisons and contracting as mercenaries in war.

[daleanime]

28. .......

:wow: :loveya: :hug:

[Arctic Dave]

36. Well said. +1

And welcome to DU.

[Marazinia]

38. Aww!

Thank you both for the welcome and hugs! :grouphug:

[Bozita]

2. Wow! ... Simply WOW!

[one_voice]

Wow...no words...

K&R

You gotta get cancer to survive...WTF?!?! :-(

[ejpoeta]

3. in america. this is so true and so wrong. yet people seem to think it's just fine.

I have a friend without insurance who didn't go to a doctor when he was having pain and it was affecting his ability to drive because they were happening while he would drive. He finally went in when he got scared one time he was driving. Ended up with a tumor on his brain (not in it yet). It was stage 3. They took it out and he has radiation and such ahead. And now a big hospital bill hanging over his head. There is something wrong with that. I hope this guy will be ok.

[cyglet]

4. If he was working a decent job

they would've done their best to deny him, too.

I wish we could just have single payer, but the corporatists never like that.

I always thought it was funny that I made too much on unemployment to qualify for state care.

[PETRUS]

6. kick

[Safetykitten]

7. Why can't people wait til 2014? I mean really.

That's when we all get the big coverage. The big shiny new coverage.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

12. Big fucking deal coverage.

They got this.

[bvar22]

24. A Perfect Storm is brewing for 2014.

It won't be pretty.
Somewhere between 40 Million and 70Million Americans are going to be FORCED to BUY a defective product from
For Profit Corporations that:
*Manufacture NOTHING
*Provide NO service
*Produce NO wealth (Value Added)

Even with a subsidy, most of these already struggling Working Class Americans will be MANDATED to write a BIG CHECK
every year for a junk insurance policy that they can't afford to use due to high Co-Pay/High deductible.
They WILL Blame the Democrats,
and rightly so.
The "Democrats" passed a Republican SCAM without forcing the Republicans to take ANY responsibility.
All the Republicans have to do is sit back and say,
"Yep. We voted against it,"
and Democrats will be unelectable for a generation.

Listen to what Candidate Obama said about Mandated Health Insurance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acc6Wn_BWlk

2014 will be an interesting year.


You will know them by their WORKS,
not by their excuses.

Solidarity99!
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[tnlefty]

8. No, it does not make sense, and I wish you health fellow 99%,

nor does it make sense that people who have insurance are bankrupted when they have health insurance plans, or damned near bankrupted, but the 99% didn't have much of a voice, nor a choice in what has been dealt to them

Stay strong and I wish you the best for a recovery. :hug:

[mopinko]

9. no sign of photoshopping on this one that i could see.

not an expert at that, but have made it a habit to take a look when i see these pics. so far the only obvious phony ones i have seen are from the "53%".

[Edweird]

10. Good thing Obama worked so hard to preserve the existing system.

[inna]

33. actually, he worked hard to make it even worse, and by far.

most people are not getting it yet, but they'll see it eventually.

[valerief]

11. This s/b crammed down the throats of every "get a job" teabagger. nt

[Starry Messenger]

14. k&r

[glowing]

15. Exactly.

Thrown away as garbage.. then too poor to afford life, not broke enough for help. No it doesn't make any sense. And no church can afford cancer treatment. Even the insurance companies find every excuse possible to not pay because its so expensive. Prices for treatment and drugs are blocked from oversight, because congress is bought and won't regulate the market. Many companies are refusing to carry insurance or making employers pay more and more of the premium so that they are priced out of affording the coverage, saving the company money.

The poverty totals are ridiculous. Minimum wage isn't even enough to live on. Does it NOT make sense that people are occupying? We've had our limit. Thank God. I'm so happy this movement is going and only gaining strength. We will win if we remember we are the 99%.

[Cleita]

16. Sad and yet he's one of the lucky ones, who did

get some kind of health care and treatment.

[BEZERKO]

17. No it doesn't make any sense,

and yes, this is America...

[Modern_Matthew]

18. My Aunt had a paper stating that she was approved for cancer treatments...

And that they would be paid for. She had not yet received the card and the local hospital turned her away. The letter wasn't good enough, even when they called the number and verified it. She had to go over an hour away for treatment.

[DollyM]

22. my mother was "kicked out" by the Cancer Treatment Center because of her bill amount

Didn't matter that she had exhausted her savings and Medicare had already paid into the 6 figure on her bill, because she owed 16 thousand and was making payments of $200.00 a month out of her 800.00 a month ss check, they wanted the 16 thousand paid, right then and there! So they said because of her age and the size of her bill, they would no longer treat her. Yes, that is medicine in American. You can be denied lifesaving treatment even though you have paid out every sent you had.

[GreenPartyVoter]

32. So many people still don't believe these stories. They will, though, as it

happens more and more to them or those they love.

[provis99]

19. and Hermann Cain would say its his own fault

for being to lazy to get himself a better job and work harder.

which is part of the reason why Hermann Cain is an inhuman monster.

[Enrique]

20. that's what I was going to post

"if you're a pizza guy (irony alert), blame yourself."

[Marazinia]

30. To those who blame the guy for his job

I'm sorry, I didn't realize you white collar, middle class folk don't want pizza anymore. Or clean public restrooms, or plushie toys for your kids, or clothes for yourselves, or cars, or sewage treatment plants, or roads, or any of those other things that require people to do mucky and dangerous work. Because obviously, you don't want anyone to have to do those jobs. Okay, so instead of supporting the rights of those who do the jobs you want done (and you do want those jobs to get done, just not by you), you crap all over them and dehumanize them and act like their lives are worthless.

Yep. This country needs to take a trip down revolution lane, and all of you spoiled middle class folk need to realize that everything you have is dependent on everyone else and that looking down on those with low paying jobs and those who can't find work is a master mentality. You equate these people with slaves, disposable nobodies that exist for your convenience. Shame on you. Shame.

[Vinca]

21. What a fucked up country we've got.

[lunatica]

23. I am the 99% too. I'm proud to stand with you Sir

[jerseyjack]

25. Sometime last week was a Repub wanker candidate for something.

I believe he is a Congressman and was on C-span radio. He was going on about how neighbors used to help neighbors and stuff like that. It brought to mind, Bush I's Thousand Points of Light.

Anyway, while neighbors do still help neighbors, I can't imagine going to my neighbor and having her do cancer surgery.

[Marnie]

26. Glad he pointed out that hospitals do not have to treat you.

And there are no charitable institutions who pick up medical costs. Most can't afford to and the ones that can would rather keep the money than use it to actually help people in need.

Though they can afford lobbyists and political donations.

[KT2000]

27. Yes - big misconception

they are only required to stabilize a life or death situation.
Most people do not seem to know that.

[DeSwiss]

29. K&R n/t

[ThatsMyBarack]

31. "Minimum wage meant I made too much money"

:wtf: Do they think he's loaded or something??

[Tsiyu]

35. If we let every minimum wage earner have health care

How in the HELL can we pay CEOs bejillion dollar bonuses?

Don't you care about the poor CEOs? How they suffer? How can three houses be enough for any of them?

You people are so heartless and greedy! You know, it's not like some pizza delivery guy is actually HUMAN or anything...


:sarcasm:

[a2liberal]

34. K&R (n/t)

[Eljo_Don]

37. The bill

Scott Olsen will be in the same conditions as he is. Scott Olsen's injury caused by the Oakland police will cost him a lot of money. Who will pay for it?