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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 12:41 AM
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Would this device be available to any of the 50 million Americans without health insurance?
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Just asking.
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CC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 12:42 AM
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1. Hell no and it isn't available
to most of them that do have health insurance.



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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 12:45 AM
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3. What's this thing cost? What if one were "self pay" or "bartering" ala tea party types(nt)
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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 08:43 AM
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13. A lot of chickens
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 12:43 AM
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2. Apparently you can only look at his package today, though.
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WinkyDink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 07:27 PM
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17. HE IS GROSS.
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Cronus Protagonist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 12:50 AM
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4. Sure, for three chickens and a baby pig
You might also have to bring a jar of home made preserves every week for maintenance.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 01:10 AM
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6. Probably runs on preserves (nt)
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cheri010353 Donating Member (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 12:50 AM
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5. How many chickens
would it cost?
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 01:34 AM
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7. It wouldn't even be available for the average person who
DOES have insurance. The insurance company would just call it "experimental" and deny, deny, deny.
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 01:37 AM
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8. hmm..that's not what the teabaggers signs say! *nt
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Brother Buzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 01:52 AM
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9. Screw wearing garlic to ward off evil...
I'm gonna start wearing rare-earth magnets. That, or I'll start lugging around a microwave oven with a defective door.

That evil man must quiver in his boots during a lightning storm.
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freeplessinseattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 08:33 AM
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10. I'm dumb. what exactly is the device?? n/t
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 09:11 AM
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14. It's an expensive Left Ventricular pump.>>>
Mr. Cheney’s heart will never beat at full strength again, doctors say. His new mechanical pump, a partial artificial heart known as a ventricular assist device, leaves patients without a pulse because it pushes blood continuously instead of mimicking the heart’s own beat.

No pulse? creepy.
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freeplessinseattle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 07:25 PM
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16. Yikes! Thanks for the info. Didn't know that was his evilness
in that pic, but am grateful he wasn't facing the camera! Creepy indeed.
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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 08:36 AM
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11. Only if you had that kind of money.
Otherwise Alan Grayson is right.
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Still a Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 08:37 AM
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12. Rush knows how everyone can get that or anything else
Write a check!
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goodboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 09:12 AM
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15. conservative utopia...everyone's a millionaire, and there are no
garbage men, or fast food workers..we're all neurologists or pilots or talk show hosts.
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LisaL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-25-11 07:28 PM
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18. I presume so if they can cough up the money.
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