Posted on 09/03/2009 2:45:27 PM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
The poor guy doesn’t even have an option for private insurance. By government mandate Medicare becomes your primary insurance and any other insurance you have only pays what medicare doesn’t. So you must use medicare first or else...
They aren't protesting MediCare you idiot.
He was not protesting against MediCare
The same medicare that was only going to cost a billion or two in 1990. The same Medicare that is effectively bankrupt and running deficits projected into the tens-of-trillions. The same Medicare that mandates underpayment for treatments resulting in doctors and hospitals jacking up prices to non-Medicare patients in order to make up the difference thus driving costs higher and higher each year? The same Medicare that more and more doctors are refusing to accept? Is it that Medicare that is so worthy of this dope’s boasting?
” So if he wants his finger put back on, Medicare is the only game in town”
Latest news?
THEY WEREN’T ABLE TO REATTACH THE FINGER!
http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/sep/03/healthcare-reform-opponent-loses-part-of-finger/
“it was medicare that treated him.”
This guys is an idiot... Medicare doesn’t treat anyone. The hospital/doctor does.
Clear violation of HIPPA.
Rack ‘em.
How does Shuster know this? Aren't medical records private (at least for now) by law? Did someone at the hospital violate that law? Did Shuster violate privacy law?
“How does Shuster know this? Aren’t medical records private (at least for now) by law? Did someone at the hospital violate that law? Did Shuster violate privacy law?”
Have you considered the possibility that he has absolutely NO CLUE, and he’s just lying through his teeth?
He has no choice about Medicare which is a horrible program. Not sure why the obots are bragging about something that is bankrupt.
Pray for the Tea Parties
That’s right. When Teddy Kennedy needed cancer surgery, he went to a PRIVATE hospital, rather than seek the sort of care the average person would get in a government-run system, the very thing he wants to force on everyone else.
Did Medicare also pay for the old man’s rabies shot? They should have.
Well, of course.
I thought though, for a moment, I'd pretend he was an actual journalist, who reported on facts, rather than fantasies, as they did in our country, long ago.
According to the house bill, half of the cost will come from “savings” in the Medicare program. None of those savings is detailed. If I thought my mandatory medical program was going to be cut I would be protesting, too.
With respect to this Clymer, the idiot who bit the finger off should have to pay!!!
Bill Rice, the guy who lost the finger, didn’t plan on going to a protest rally. He was driving down the street and saw some Code Pink people. He stopped to see if they were protesting the military. Rice has a son who’s an officer in the Marines.
He talked with a Pink Code person and when he learned they were rallying for Obamacare he decided to leave. Then the O supporter came across the street and started the trouble.
So Shuster is lying when he says Rice was protesting Obamacare.
He PAID for it. Hello!!
Shuster thinks it is OK to abuse senior citizens because they have medicare.
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