Repuke Rep To America: "Quit whining about your "hang nails & fever blisters"

[kpete]

Rep. Gingrey Mocks Pre-Existing Conditions Report: ‘They Would All Have To Have Hang Nails’

Yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services released a new report http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/01/20110118a.html
showing that up to 129 million Americans have a pre-existing condition and would likely be denied coverage in the individual health insurance market. According to the analysis, examples of what may be considered a pre-existing condition include, “heart disease, cancer, asthma, high blood pressure, and arthritis.”

GINGREY: One hundred and twenty nine million people with pre-existing conditions! They would all have to have hang nails and fever blisters to have pre-existing conditions and if you believe those statistics, I’ve got a beach to sell you in Pennsylvania.

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2011/01/19/prex-gingrey/

[blogslut]

1. How do I break the news to my kid?

Her cerebral palsy is nothing more than a hangnail.

[Justitia]

7. Mine too - kidney failure is just like a hangnail, who knew? -eom

[ClassWarrior]

2. You mean the Con who used to have a porn mustache?

Boom-chicka-bow-bowww...

NGU.

[hootinholler]

15. When did John Cleese start playing legislators?

I have visions of the ministry of silly walks from that photo.

-Hoot

[ClassWarrior]

20. ROFL... "Congressman Gingrey calling..."

NGU.

[ClassWarrior]

23. "Will you take the call, President Palin?"

:rofl:

NGU.

[hootinholler]

26. The resemblence is uncanny

I'll have to think about some dialog, this could be fun.

-Hoot

[ClassWarrior]

27. How about RW whackadoodle Alan Simpleton?

NGU.

[tanyev]

3. That's kind of the point, Mr. Gingrey.

Insurance companies are probably figuring out ways right now to add hang nails and fever blisters to their pre-existing conditions list.

[Frustratedlady]

4. Mr. Gingrey should check out the diabetes numbers, heart, arthritis and cancer stats...

plus the huge number of children with asthma probably due to corporate violations of EPA regulations and all the chemicals around us these days.

He is lucky that insurance companies don't count ignorance as a pre-existing condition or he would be SOL.

Can these people get any more bizarre than they already are? How did they campaign? How were they elected. WHY were they elected.

@#$%^ ^&*(*

[elias49]

5. Lest we forget, this is the Limbaugh-ass-kissing Gingrey

who went on Limbaugh's show to apologize for comments he made about a Limbaugh claim that McConnell and Boehner were 'appeasing' President Obama. January 2009.
Is he channeling the Rush? Or is he just a heartless ass?

[wilt the stilt]

6. were number 1-Georgia

I say we have the most wingnuts of any state in our congressional delegation.

Gingtey
Broun
Price
Westmoreland
Kingston.

[kestrel91316]

8. I couldn't even get insurance a few years ago when I had NO

preexisting conditions. It had been over 3 years since I had seen a doctor and the ins co kept claiming they couldn't get records from my previous doctor, so they simply ceased processing my claim. My medical records showed how healthy I was and they couldn't stomach even that, I suppose.

Too healthy to need a doctor also = you MUST have a pre-existing condition you are hiding from us!

[WilliamPitt]

9. From September

http://www.truth-out.org/sick-bastards63456

(snip)

Let's look at some numbers, shall we?

According to the American Heart Association, more than 81,000,000 Americans suffer from one or more forms of cardiovascular disease. According to the American Cancer Society, more than 11,000,000 people in America currently suffer from some form of cancer. According to the American Diabetes Association, 23.6 million Americans currently suffer from diabetes, and the Center for Disease Control has estimated as many as half of all Americans will suffer from the disease by the year 2050, thanks to our deplorable dietary habits. According to the National Parkinson's Foundation, between 50,000 and 60,000 new cases of Parkinson's Disease are diagnosed in America each year. According to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, some 400,000 Americans currently suffer from MS.

That's a pretty substantial portion of the population, with more being diagnosed with cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, Parkinson's and MS every day.

All of them, every single one of them, are like a house that has already burned down, according to Mike Huckabee and the sick bastards who cheered his comments. All of them, every single one of them, are not worthy of health insurance because they had the misfortune of getting sick before they got insurance. All of them, every single one of them, therefore, are not worthy of health care in any real form, unless, of course, they are wealthy and able to afford the staggering cost of ill health in America.

All of them, in short, every single one of them, can basically just go die in Mike Huckabee's world. They are not worthy of coverage, treatment or consideration. The five diseases I listed account for well over a third of the American population, and if Mike Huckabee or someone who agrees with him somehow becomes president someday, those millions of people should just dig their own graves and lie down in them.

[RegieRocker]

10. You would need a brain to understand the number

of people that are over age 50 in this country dip shit.

[old mark]

11. Since both my wife and I have real pre existing conditions, I can only repeat

Fuck all Republicans.

K&R
mark

[marmar]

12. I guess when you're that big of an asshole, you don't even realize you're an asshole.

Gingrey is that kind of asshole.

[Schema Thing]

13. The number is too low. Every human has pre-existing conditions

and that is why every human within the US borders should be considered part of the same risk pool wrt financing health care, irrespective of age, sex, type of employment, or *any* factor other than being human.

[dsc]

14. on top of everything else

he is wrong about PA not have a beach. It has 40 miles of coastline on Lake Erie (you know around that city called Erie).

[OwnedByFerrets]

16. Some how, they continue to show new heights of idiocy.

[prolesunited]

17. I have asthma

Tell me again how non-essential breathing is and how I did something to cause it.

[Initech]

18. The crazy is strong in this one.

[fascisthunter]

19. so, you want people to just die and shut up while they do

and yet we on the left get jumped on by millionaires in the media for calling them what they are... sociopaths!

[Odin2005]

21. I'll give this fucker a pre-existing condition.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. Dang... so diabetes is just a blister

PHEW!

[gratuitous]

24. "If you believe those statistics"

In other words, the Department of Health and Human Services is some fly-by-night organization with sketchy research and data assembly skills. Not the awesome awesomeness of Phil Gingrey, who can pull just about anything out of his ass. So, who are you going to believe? HHS or Gingrey?

[Monk06]

25. The number is actually slightly higher. See sources below. Not exactly left wing orgs.

#
Nearly 1 in 2 Americans (133 million) has a chronic condition
Chronic Care in America: A 21st Century Challenge, a study of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & Partnership for Solutions: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (September 2004 Update). "Chronic Conditions: Making the Case for Ongoing Care".
# By 2020, about 157 million Americans will be afflicted by chronic illnesses, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

#
That number is projected to increase by more than one percent per year by 2030, resulting in an estimated chronically ill population of 171 million.
Chronic Care in America: A 21st Century Challenge, a study of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation & Partnership for Solutions: Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (September 2004 Update). "Chronic Conditions: Making the Case for Ongoing Care".

Cited From Rest Ministries

http://www.restministries.org/invisibleillness/statistics.htm