If Dick Cheney Were Anyone Else, He'd Probably Be Dead By Now
By Rose Ann DeMoro Huffington Post
December 11, 2007
If Dick Cheney were anyone else, he'd probably be dead by now. That's the headline of an ad we - the California Nurses Association/National Nurses Organizing Committee - ran in ten Iowa newspapers this week.
Imagine if you had the Vice President's health history. Four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, angioplasty, an implanted defibrillator, and just recently, an emergency procedure to treat an irregular heartbeat.
Take that chart to Blue Cross, UnitedHealth, or Aetna and try to get coverage or even continued care. If you already have one of their policies, they'd probably drop you like a hot potato or raise your premiums - or if you are part of a group plan, your group's premiums - to an amount higher than the national debt. Or perhaps they'd just demand you re-pay them for your last bypass surgery because they discovered you once chipped a tooth you'd never disclosed on your application form.
France, Canada, and the United Kingdom, all have a lower mortality for cardiovascular disease. They also each happen to have some form of a government-run healthcare system. Bush and Cheney don't have to move to Canada or France, because they already receive that level of care. Do the rest of us deserve any less?
Here's what the system our elected officials get looks like:
Everyone is covered. No one is denied care because of a "pre-existing" condition or because a claims adjustor called treatment recommended by their physician "experimental." Everyone is guaranteed any doctor of their choice. Skyrocketing deductibles, co-pays, hospital or drug charges that do not threaten them with bankruptcy. They don't have to watch 30 percent of their healthcare dollar skimmed off the top so that an insurance CEO can buy another 200-foot yacht.
Our PUBLIC SERVANTS sure know how to take care of themselves, don't they?
How would you like to be able to choose the doctor of your choice and the hospital of your choice, without worrying about the bill?
That's the kind of service our senators and representatives in D.C. get in regards to THEIR health care.
Not to mention the MONEY. Besides the salary of around $170,000.00 dollars per year, senators get an additional sum of nearly 2 MILLION dollars per year for "expenses."
Reps get around 1.5 MILLION dollars per year for their "expenses."
Believe this is money paid in cash, since it's for "expenses."
No wonder they fight like cats and dogs to get and hold on to their posts.
Don't expect to see universal health care discussed in the staged "dog and pony" shows that are the debates leading up to the presidential primaries.
Nope, this campaign the hot button issue is illegal immigration.
Looks like to push polls and focus groups were tired of the old divide and conquer issues of gay marriage, flag amendents and abortion.
is just that - an industry.
and contrary to popular belief - the "product" they rely on for their viability is fear and illness, not health and security.
insurers - whether healthcare, auto, casualty, homeowner's, you name it - are blood sucking vampires and Americans will never see any improvement in their daily lives until they recognize this cold hard fact and act accordingly - with a ten foot stake right through the heart of the insurance industry.
Nationalize it, baby!
It's time for real change.
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"Money" has no value - people do.
Please don't let Dick Cheney die!
We all would be very disappointed if he dies before being brought before the coming .
We want to see Cheney and the ziocons face justice and answer for their crimes against humanity.
We want to see him whimper when he is led to the gallow. We want to hear his diaper fill when the door drops and his neck stretches. We want to hear him swing for what he has done.
Oh please don't let Dick Cheney die!
After Cheney, Bush, Rice, Rumsfeld, Feith, Perle, et al. have been indicted, arrested, brought to trial and found guilty of their numerous war crimes, i would rather see them serve the rest of their lives in prison, only let out during the day-under heavy gurad--to be sent to the closest Veteran's Hospital where they spend the day changing out colostomy bags of our wounded vets.
At the end of the day, it's back to the prison cell.
And that would be the sum total of the rest of their miserable lives.
but, I have to differ with you on this one old friend
it's my understanding that when these bastards go to their graves they'll be tormented in hell fire for just shy of eternity.
they'll be forced to drink boiling oil - or some other truly hot substance - and their skin will fry over and over and over again because God resurrects them each time until they've finally gotten what they deserve.
yes, I know it sounds too good to be true - but, allow me this one indulgence.
:)
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"Money" has no value - people do.
What would be the real hell? What would truly be damning and terrorizing?
Imagine a rapist dying. Imagine that rapist experiencing every single moment and detail of terror, humiliation, violence, pain, and the aftermath of his deeds of all of his victims on earth.
It won't stop there.
The rapist will relive the emotions and agony of the victims' families and friends.
Can you imagine??
There's no wishful thinking. It will happen.
See the movie FLATLINERS. Each character - save Julia Robert's character - experiences absolute remorse for what they have done to people in their past.
This movie does a good job of zeroing in on the very first thing that happens when you die.
People who think nothing happens - that we simple cease to exist when we die - will be in for quite a shock.