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Here you can see the horrible choices facing someone who came for the Little Rock health fair: do I see a doctor about the Stage-Three cancer diagnosis I got seven years ago that bankrupted me, or do I try to see a dentist about the immediate and agonizing pain from this abscessed tooth?
Vicki Hansen’s real worry seems to be: "Will I be able to see a cancer doctor AND a dentist today, at this appointment I’ve been waiting days for?" Should an Arkansan with a Stage-Three Cancer diagnosis that bankrupted her have to wait seven years for a free health fair to arrive in her city in order to get followup care?
And when the health care arrives, should she really have to worry whether she can see a cancer screening doctor for the first time in seven years, or the dentist about her terrible tooth pain?
Should any American really be subjected to this kind of treatment?
Blanche Lincoln, are you listening? Your constituent Vicky Hansen has this to say to you about health care reform: "I think they should help us… they don’t know what it’s like! Wait until someone tells them they have been denied. Wait until they deny you, tell you that you can’t have health insurance, that you are not worthy."
Arkansans feel less than, unworthy, ashamed, and embarrassed that they can’t get health care. These are your constituents.
Are these the people you’ll deny Public Option?
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Tragic.
Eve,
You are doing an amazing job. The should create a special Emmy just for you. This is astounding video journalism.
Just unbelievable.
The stories are heartbreaking.
I wonder, does Blanche Lincoln have the courage to even watch this?
Eve, thank you for these heartbreaking reports. It’s just like we were there with you, this is really excellent journalism.
And thank you Teddy for all the reporting/writing you are doing!!
this is terrible.
Thank you Teddy.
Seconded
Rahm, Obama and Reid ought to take a look at this.
Is this woman’s Stage 3 cancer [or the illnesses of anyone else] going to get “better” between now & a 2013/2014 “effective date” for their piss-ant bill?
We ought to be sending stories like this to Michelle Obama as well. I think she may have more of a heart.
Yes they should watch this, but do you really think they will? I doubt it, and frankly, all their nice rhetoric aside, I don’t think any of them really gives a shite. They got theirs… eff the rest of the rabble.
Personal Stories will win us this one but Wow! this is powerful. I think the Left just created a new political tactic Real People, Real Stories trumps Astro Turf Media lies everytime! Our anger on this issue is the quiet dangerous kind.
Give me quiet and dangerous over loud months perpetually angry in a fight any day.
Best healthcare system in the world?
The abuse of truth and fact is numbing.
There are 535 Americans in Congress and one American in the WH who should be very ashamed of the above story.
Barack Obama– care for your people and do the right thing. Declare this corrupted reform of healthcare you and your party are trying to foist off on Americans as null and void. Medicare For All. American Health Security is the missing twin of American Social Security. Make this so.
WashingtonDC shoveled multiple hundreds of billions of $$ into Iraq over past six years.
This year and next year the Pentagon and CIA will be funded to over a trillion $$ for one year. Yet we are told Americans cannot have a trillion $$ over ten years for American healthcare better outcomes.
535 Americans in Congress and one American in the WH could change this.
Question now becomes why they fail to do so? Will not do so?
Until all Americans have Health Security the Congress should not have any healthcare coverage other than what each American in Congress can afford for $6,000 a year. That works out to $500 a month. For many Americans this is an impossible amount to produce each month as is. Very likely this amount still falls short of what is required month to month to secure healthcare coverage in America that is actually useful or satisfactory.
American Health Security for all means no luxury first class healthcare for top 10 million Americans and no care or poor care for bottom 100 million Americans.
Congress should be ashamed to claim this so called reform it is touting does anything other than give the current wretched American healthcare regime more money and more power to subvert American Health Security.
535 Americans in Congress should surrender the gold plated healthcare they have until the above story is not possible to find in America.
Barack Obama and his family should surrender the luxury healthcare plan we Americans pay for him to have until all Americans have Health Security.
$500 a month. They would be better off in the long run to put it into better quality food.
We could solve all these problems, what we need is the political will.
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