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Nurses' Union: Cheney Would Be Dead By Now
abc news ^ | 12/11/07

Posted on 12/11/2007 1:14:19 PM PST by Abathar

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To: basil

They don’t speak for me.


21 posted on 12/11/2007 1:25:17 PM PST by CindyDawg
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To: basil
This makes me sad that I have an RN after my name.

Don't be! I have several health problems that have had me hospitalized several times over the last 3 years, most recently for three weeks in November, and RN's are some of my favorite people! I respect hospital nurses more than almost any other profession. I can take or leave most of the doctors but nurses are great!

22 posted on 12/11/2007 1:26:16 PM PST by pgkdan (Tolerance is the virtue of the man without convictions - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Abathar
Hmmmmmmmm!

Sooooooo, federal health care is responsible for:

the war in Iraq and associated (supposed)
atrocities”; oil prices; global warming; a wounded hunter; Hurricane Katrina; etc. etc. etc. ...

23 posted on 12/11/2007 1:26:27 PM PST by LRS (It's time to put Hillary on the 3:10 to Yuma...)
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To: Abathar

I’m sure Cheny’s medical options are much broader than just what the government offers him.


24 posted on 12/11/2007 1:26:48 PM PST by ctdonath2 (The color blue tastes like the square root of 0?)
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To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Shoes? I was thinking of other things they aren’t fit to wipe....
25 posted on 12/11/2007 1:27:07 PM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: Abathar
"What's outrageous is we have an administration that sits on its hands while we have 47 million people who are uninsured ... This administration has ignored this health care crisis," says Charles Idelson, spokesman for the California Nurses Association and the National Nurses Organizing Committee. "They're indifferent to pain and suffering."

Well, instead of complaining and whining about it, why don't these scumbags put their money where their mouths are? One way they could do something for "poor people" is to offer their services for free. That would help uninsured people. How do you think the union would go for that? My guess is that instead of helping others, they'd go on strike.

26 posted on 12/11/2007 1:27:17 PM PST by chimera
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To: Abathar

LOL. Vice President Cheney gave up someting like $30 million in stock options to become VP. $30 mill would have bought him pretty good care. I think he can afford to pay for himself. As long as you keep edwards from the doctors’ bank accounts.


27 posted on 12/11/2007 1:29:20 PM PST by gate2wire
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To: Abathar

“”probably be dead by now” from his multiple heart attacks if he didn’t have federally funded health care that most American’s can’t get.”

Total BS. These Communists act like no one can afford health care coverage. Frankly, we can but barely as hospitals pay for billions in illegal alien health care freebies. IF the federal government would enforce the immigration laws we would see a dramtic decrease in health care costs.


28 posted on 12/11/2007 1:30:41 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: Abathar

P.S. How do they know if Cheney aid for his own care or not? I thought their HIPAA law prevents their disclosing his medical status.


29 posted on 12/11/2007 1:31:50 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: 2banana
He WOULD be dead by now if he lived in Cuba...

But they'd keep it a secret...

30 posted on 12/11/2007 1:31:52 PM PST by Allegra (Greetings from a kinder, gentler Iraq. God bless US and Coalition Forces.)
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To: Abathar

1st off, they are not heart attacks.......the veins to the heart suffer being brittle.not the heart


31 posted on 12/11/2007 1:32:08 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills named us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: Abathar
"probably be dead by now" from his multiple heart attacks if he didn't have federally funded health care that most American's can't get.

Federally funded health care for federal employees is a hell of a lot different from federally funded socialized medicine.

On the other hand, if Cheney had to rely on the Hillary's and the other dummies socialized version of health care, then I agree that he would probably be dead by now.

32 posted on 12/11/2007 1:32:31 PM PST by cowboyway (My heroes have always been Cowboys)
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To: Dr. Frank fan

How about a businessman.


33 posted on 12/11/2007 1:33:23 PM PST by Rumplemeyer
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To: Abathar
I noticed that they never seem to even mention the hot shots who tool around in Beemers, live in over-priced, flashy homes with swimming pools, wear Goochie loafers; and after buying these 'necessities', don't have money left over for health insurnce to protect the wife and kids.

And, have you evfer noticed that the lefties who are so dead set on giving, "free" insurance to all comers never volunteer to have THEIR taxes sufficiently, and then earmarked to pay for it. It's their idea -- why the hall don't they want to foot the bill, and leave the rest of us alone.

34 posted on 12/11/2007 1:33:34 PM PST by Turret Gunner A20 (Tolerating intolerance is not a "value," it's self-destructive stupidity.)
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To: Abathar
DITTO

I wish libs would make up their pathetic little minds.... First, he made a fortune from the eeeevil Halliburton, then he and his eeeeevil Halliburton cronys skimmed millions from all that Iraqi oil. Its laughable and outrageous. Personally, as a Cheney Chick and one who loves her country, I couldn't care less who pays for his health care, I'm just entirely grateful that he is still among us.

35 posted on 12/11/2007 1:35:35 PM PST by Darlin' (oh.... phooey.... lost my tagline.... again)
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To: Abathar

I can PROMISE you not all of us nurses feel this way. Just like all teacher’s aren’t NEA types.

I subscribe to the AJN (American Journal of Nursing) and a nurse against the war had an op-ed about how ALL nurses should be anti-war, and she got HAMMERED in subsequent issues.

I think the magazine had to post some of these responses because:

1. there were simply way too many responses

2. they’d lose their business cause 90% of us would walk otherwise!

TRUTH be told, we can’t keep up with all of it when only so many are covered as it is! It would be over-run with 100% govt coverage and nurses with a brain (and not sitting behind a desk with a BDS agenda) KNOW this!

A moot point anyway cause even illegal aliens get treatment in a hospital in this country, coverage or not...

at home they’d be dead and buried by sun-up....MAYBE.

If Dr. Seuss read this he’d agree:

I wouldn’t join a union, not as a nurse, not as teacher...

I wouldn’t join a union even if I was a preacher.


36 posted on 12/11/2007 1:37:23 PM PST by tpanther
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To: Abathar
What's outrageous is... we have 47 million people who are uninsured ... This administration has ignored this health care crisis

And their solution?

Hint: it's not to help the uninsured (many of whom are illegal aliens or are folks who choose not not buy insurance).

No.

Their solution is to TAKE OUR (yours and my) insurance away from us, and to redistribute a "FAIR" system back that will let us pay MORE to wait FOREVER for an appointment to stand in line for HOURS to speak to a disinterested NURSE who guards the doctor who knows that it's in his/her personal best interest NOT to DIAGNOSE you with anything that will take time or resources to treat.

Talk to British or Canadian folks. They know what waiting in a "queue" for health care means.

If Hillary wins the White House, do not get sick, my FRiends.

37 posted on 12/11/2007 1:38:04 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: basil

Since you’re an RN, do you know, when did the caps go away? After Steve’s last hospital stay, I kinda want them back - I couldn’t tell if the person in scrubs offering medical advice (and every single one of them DID) was an actual nurse, or just there to pick up the lunch tray.


38 posted on 12/11/2007 1:38:45 PM PST by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: SMARTY
Is she suggesting that we reach into our pockets for that TOO??????

Why not, we've got to pony up for their damned mortgages.

39 posted on 12/11/2007 1:39:55 PM PST by nina0113 (If fences don't work, why does the White House have one?)
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To: Abathar

Do these people actually read their reports before they issue them? I’ve also always wondered whether directors and producers ever watch their movies before they unleash them on the American public.


40 posted on 12/11/2007 1:42:02 PM PST by InvisibleChurch (Her campaign crashing? Her smear of influence won’t allow it.)
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