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Nurses on Cheney: "He'd Probably Be Dead by Now"
These nurses have sass. The California Nurses Association (CNA)/National Nurses Organizing Committee (NNOC) are running this newspaper advertisement in the top 10 Iowa newspapers, cheering universal health insurance and poking Dick Cheney with a sharp stick. In case you can't read the fine print, I'll type some of it here.
"The patient's history and prognosis were grim: four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, angioplasty, an implanted defibrillator and now an emergency procedure to treat an irregular heartbeat.
"For millions of Americans, this might be a death sentence. For the vice president, it was just another medical treatment. And it cost him very little.
"Unlike the average American, the president, vice president and members of Congress all enjoy government-financed health care with few restrictions or prohibitive fees. They are never turned away for pre-existing conditions or denied care for what an insurance company labels "experimental treatments."
"The rest of us deserve no less."
Comments
Well now we know the first organization to be gutted once Cheney Inc declares martial law. Brave move though.
Nurses are the best and very brave.
Posted by: capt on 12/11/07 at 2:05 PM Respond
I'm starting a restaraunt where you can order bacon drippings. we're calling it "the dick cheney" blue plate special.
Posted by: Gordon on 12/11/07 at 2:08 PM Respond
unless and until we can overcome the insurance lobby we will not get universal health insurance
Posted by: Emanuel Glantz on 12/11/07 at 2:33 PM Respond
Umm...yay for comprehensive health care ?
First time I've wished they weren't quite so diligent.
Still, illustrates that it really is a case of 1 rule for the rich [and powerful] and one for everyone else.
Posted by: Lucifer on 12/11/07 at 2:42 PM Respond
Hooray for the nurses. AMA, are you listening?
Posted by: AlexLawyer on 12/11/07 at 7:20 PM Respond
This is no surprise to me. Health care in this country is getting progressively worse...year by year. I can hardly get through a week without hearing about or experiencing health woes and horrors. Too bad Hillary's plan in 1993 was such an anachronism. Today it would fly. Heck, I bought it back then, and I was gainfully employed in corporate America with stellar group health care. Now I am self-employed, 15 years older, and limping along on a woefully inadequate individual plan. But I won't let it make me sick...my health plan won't cover it.
Posted by: Yvonne on 12/11/07 at 7:46 PM Respond
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