Rep. Paul Broun claims the public option ‘is gonna kill people.’
By on Jul 10th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Rep. Paul Broun claims the public option ‘is gonna kill people.’
In a speech on the House floor this afternoon, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) railed against health care reform. Specifically, Broun attacked the idea of a public plan, saying “this program of ‘government option’ is being touted as being the panacea, the savior of allowing people to have quality health care at an affordable price is gonna kill people.” Broun pointed to Canada and the United Kingdom in his argument against the public option, claiming that those countries “don’t have the appreciation of life as we do in our society.” Watch it:
As Media Matters Action points out, Canada and the United Kingdom actually enjoy both a lower infant mortality rate and longer life expectancy than the United States.
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Paul Broun is a turd.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:14 pmMoron. As if a lack of access to medical care isn’t killing people.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:15 pmTypical of the hysterical fascist right wing repugnicans who will do anything, say anything, lie and lie and lie to protect all that MONEY. The fact is, Americans die horribly all the time because of our f’kd up “system” – and I’ve seen it happen.
What bothers me more than second rate trash like him is all the Blue Dogcrap democrats and Obama acting like their shoeshine boy or as if he suffers Stockholm syndrome, sucking up and begging them to PLEASE be nice and like them while winking and nodding too often at the big money and profit system of suffering and death.
We’re essentially screwed by what I refer to as the “coprotocracy” (a bit of a variant).
July 10th, 2009 at 5:17 pmI have heard fundamentalists claim that if the health care reform is passed there will be forced euthanasia.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:18 pmThat is “why” they are fighting it.
Sometimes I’m ashamed to be an American. Just about every time a Republican opens his mouth, actually. What a bunch of “morans” they are. How sad for the rest of us that we’re forced by circumstance to put up with them on any level at all.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:20 pmObviously, this man hasn’t heard about the numerous times insurance companies have killed people by denying life-saving treatment.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:21 pmWe need to rail hard against these wackos – the public will never accept that providing those the private insurance industry chooses to not provide coverage for with access to medical care will kill them.
Let’s keep the pressure on and these buffoons at the microphone.
Who was the wench that proclaimed that saying healthcare was a “right” was like saying FOOD IS A RIGHT (which the global community certainly recognizes).
July 10th, 2009 at 5:22 pm.
Dear Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA),
WITHOUT a public option, people will die, also.
Spin that!
.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:24 pm.
I WANT
CONGRESS
CARE !
.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:24 pm.
Dear Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA),
If you appreciated “LIFE” then you would ensure the “General Welfare of The People” instead of pining for the welfare of the corporations.
.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:26 pmGeorgeM says: …”coprotocracy”
I like that. Wouldn’t find it at all strange to learn that the funeral industry is a big supporter of anti-health care Republicants and Blue Dogs — if too many people have adequate health care, the death rate might shift in the wrong direction. Hard on business, you know.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:26 pmnotice he calls is ‘government option’ …
as in, ‘government IS the problem’…
July 10th, 2009 at 5:27 pmThe utter disregard for anyone but themselves and any fact that contradicts their perverted fantasies may be the most disgusting trait of the Reichwhiners. They are absolutely impervious to the truth.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:28 pmDear Rep. Paul Brown (R – Insurance),
The great ole USA ranks 37th in health care of the nations of the world. We are near the bottom of the heap of the industrialized nations. We’re No. 1 in paying for health care and health insurance. Someone has to keep these vile corporate CEOs living in the lap of luxury; all paid for by greedy insurance companies denying claims and denying health care procedures. These worthless Republicans will do anything and say anything in a vain attempt to stop the passage of a robust public health insurance option for the American people. Of course, Republicans having been dragging their heels on social progress for at least one hundred years.
O/T: search on “Joint Special Operations Command” to try to find out what VP Cheney was up to…
July 10th, 2009 at 5:28 pmIs this guy related to Gen. Westmoreland? You know the guy that said killing Vietnamese wasn’t really killing because as a group they just didn’t have the same appreciation for life as godfearing Americans did. As one of the 50 million uninsured plus the 30 million undersured a panacea like single-payer sounds fine to me. Could this Congressman be any more ignorant and embarrassing: another Southern man-lackey for the right wing to hold up as a talking head for their latest spin on modern racism and discrimination.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:29 pmBroun pointed to Canada and the United Kingdom in his argument against the public option, claiming that those countries “don’t have the appreciation of life as we do in our society.”
Broun is a Republican. Republicans think that only rich, white people should have health care in America.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:30 pmfunny – if what broun says, the repugs that cozy up to the public’s teat for their socialized medicine would be droppin’ like flies.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:33 pmBroun believes in making up the facts as he goes along. To hell with truth. He can grandstand all he wants because if and when the health care bill with a public option is passed, he will have to explain his vote.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:34 pmIt’s gonna kill people, all right
Insurance executives with their entire worth tied up in stock options will be jumping out of high windows, by the dozen.
Insurance executives are people, too, y’know.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:34 pmIn a speech on the House floor this afternoon, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) railed against health care reform. Specifically, Broun attacked the idea of a public plan, saying “this program of ‘government option’ is being touted as being the panacea, the savior of allowing people to have quality health care at an affordable price is gonna kill people.”
Sorry Rep Broun, you seemed to have made a mistake, I think what you meant to say was:
“this program of ‘government option’ is being touted as being the panacea, the savior of allowing people to have quality health care at an affordable price is gonna kill insurance companies.” There, I fixed it for you.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:34 pmBroun pointed to Canada and the United Kingdom in his argument against the public option, claiming that those countries “don’t have the appreciation of life as we do in our society.”
WTF?
July 10th, 2009 at 5:35 pmpags2 – don’t overlook the fact that he and his ilk can make up facts as they go along because the mainstream media will consistently “catapult the propaganda”.
What he says is really meaningless until the “echo chamber” gives it faux credibility.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:36 pmcynatnite Says:
Obviously, this man hasn’t heard about the numerous times insurance companies have killed people by denying life-saving treatment.
Sure he’s heard it. But he doesn’t believe it.
And for these crazy people, that’s all that matters.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:36 pmDaddy-O Says:
Sure he’s heard it. But he doesn’t believe it.
And the reason he doesn’t believe it, is because HIS insurance company would NEVER deny any treatment that was necessary for his well being, thank you US Taxpayers…
July 10th, 2009 at 5:39 pmI see that Broun’s public health plan is killing him, one brain cell at a time.
PEACE
July 10th, 2009 at 5:41 pmI hate to be the one to break it to you, Rep. Broun, but you, too, is going to die. Fact of life, you dumb fcuk.
Question: Are all Republicans idiots or just their elected leaders?
PEACE
July 10th, 2009 at 5:47 pmIf these Repub jerks didn’t have fear-mongering to work with, they’d have nothing at all.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:48 pmDear Representative Broun,
I was alarmed to hear your statement that a government health insurance option would kill people. After all, our congress is composed entirely of persons including yourself who are forced, clearly against your will, to suffer from such life-threatening government care. Indeed, from listening to you I am convinced that your government insurance is killing you, apparently from the brain down. Regrettably, the creeping death has not reached your mouth although I am sure you will be completely dead from the neck down soon. To protect yourself and your Republican and Blue Dog colleagues I look forward to hearing that you are renouncing your dreaded, evil, government health plan and instead joining the private insurance system that you so cherish. After all, you wouldn’t want to come off sounding like a hypocrite, would you?
Hugs,
July 10th, 2009 at 5:49 pmThe Taxpayers
If we can’t have it, why should our wealthy Senators and Representatives have it?
I wonder if someone like Dennis Kucinich would introduce a bill to strip away their health care plan? After all, it could kill them.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:52 pmTell me again why we didn’t just let the South secede in 1861.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:52 pmYeah. What #29 said.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pmBroun pointed to Canada and the United Kingdom in his argument against the public option, claiming that those countries “don’t have the appreciation of life as we do in our society.”
July 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pmWhat an elitist, misinformed, conceited liar. Why do Repubs think they are the chosen ones, when they show themselves to be just the opposite? Disgusting comment by an obviously disgusting man. Don’t have the appreciation of life? Well, we don’t execute our own citizens or start illegal wars that kill 100s of thousands of innocent children, women, & men.
s-mom, the answer has to be ALL REPUBLICANS ARE IDIOTS. If it was just their elected ‘leaders’ who are idiots, then there shouldn’t be any Republican followers.
Damn, Broun sure is an insular little fu[kwit!
July 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pmI lived in England for awhile, and I knew no one who would trade their healthcare for anything like we have here. I now live in Minnesota and know alot of Canadians who work and go to school here. When they get sick they go home, I wonder why that is? Oh ya, they have REAL healthcare.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:53 pmpaleolib, nicely done!
July 10th, 2009 at 5:54 pmcynatnite Says:
Obviously, this man hasn’t heard about the numerous times insurance companies have killed people by denying life-saving treatment.
Ahh, you forget, they save those victims from socialism, a fate WORSE THAN DEATH! /sarcasm
July 10th, 2009 at 5:55 pmJust another bought and paid for Republic Fascist Party Member by the HEALTH Insurance For PROFIT companies.
They don’t want competition, they want to keep on screwing America for every dime they can before we get sick of it and shut them down.
Fcuk the Republic Fascist Party
July 10th, 2009 at 5:58 pmBroun in short: You can’t have what I have, but trust me, it’s for your own good.
PEACE
July 10th, 2009 at 5:58 pmSometimes you have to put it bluntly for the public to understand. Speaking about blunts, im out of here for a bit. H
July 10th, 2009 at 5:58 pmI see that our stupid pet troll doesn’t know the difference between sales tax and income tax.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:59 pmAlthough the capitalists claim to love competition…they hate competition. What they desire is unfair competition where the the big guy can monopolize and a z z r a pe the people.
July 10th, 2009 at 5:59 pm.
Currently, the quality of health care is dictated by what I can afford “out of pocket” because any medical need I may have MUST be meet through my wallet. I make just enough money and am just healthy enough to NOT qualify for Federal programs, am employed in the underfunded arts community for a non-profit organization which can not afford a health insurance plan for it’s employees.
God forbid I get ill…
… Then I’ll lose that day’s income AND still be forced to spend more than the elites do on a doctors visit. Their $20 co-pay turns into a $200 emergency bill for me.
The General Welfare of The People…
… MY A$$!!!
.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:00 pmI would be amused if I wasn’t so outraged at the wingnuts’ trying to fan the flames of fear by citing imaginary negatives with a public plan that, unfortunately, are all too real today.
It was bad enough when the main argument against a public plan was that there would be “a bureaucrat between you and your doctor.” Never mind that most of us with private insurance already have some non-medical person between us and our doctors, whose job it is to find ways to deny us care. And that person gets a bonus when he/she is successful at it.
Now we have a retard Congressman who claims that people will die with a public plan. I think I can safely say that more people are dying with no insurance at all, and anybody with an IQ higher than that of a daffodil can see that.
They’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel. Wonder what they’ll throw at us next?
July 10th, 2009 at 6:02 pmThe Young Republican Says:
You can stay gone. Anyone who is stupid enough to call themself a republican is not very smart.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:02 pmThere is a web site that gives out information regarding blue dog Democrats. Here is the list for the state of California. Joe Baca, Jim Costa, Dennis Cardozza, Jane Harman, Loretta Sanchez(this one might change), Adam Schiff, Ellen Tauscher, Mike Thompson.
It is easy to find just who the Republicans are who will not vote for it. Very nearly all of them. But if the constituents email or write them, with a fear of not getting re-elected, they might, with a lot of pressure change over. It is because they expect people will not stay attentive, they hope to slip through unnoticed. Let’s not forget, we pay for theirs. And they have the choice of accepting or not. More then 70% of all government employees get what WE PROVIDE FOR THEM.
This is the one chance we have. It might be years, if ever, that we get this chance. Let’s get all of them out of office that refuse to give this plan to the rest of us.
We cannot afford to be too lazy to get in touch with our Reps. If we don’t they will take what the lobbyists give them to do the bidding of the insurance industry.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:03 pmIts plain to see that the health care lobby loves Paul Brown. They love him more than the British and Canadians love him. Paul Brown loves money more than them dang foreigners. Bad foreigners, bad. Good Big Mac.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:03 pm.
Dear Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA),
If socialized medicine is so bad…
… ABANDON YOUR ‘CONGRESS CARE’ THEN.
.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:06 pmAh yes this fresh high mids smells dank, can’t wait to get blazed. Well time to smoke it and chase some teenage pussy around. Puff puff pass it to myself oh thank you how nice. Have fun libs!
July 10th, 2009 at 6:06 pmwatchdog Says:
Obama and the Democratic-controlled Congress have already increased tobacco taxes — which disproportionately hit the poor — to pay for extending health coverage to 4 million children in working low-income families.
Dear idiot: Smoking causes cancer. Cancer is an illness. The poor will need to be treated by social medicine. The less people smoking out there, the less your taxes will be used to treat the poor. Many poor won’t get treated, and they will die. Happy now?
July 10th, 2009 at 6:10 pmThis stupid little game politicians are playing with us isn’t going to work this time because the lack of adequate and affordable health care is something that’s REAL easy to understand. Most of us here have some horror story to share about the cost of healthcare when a relative became sick. A recent article I read said that a large amount of personal bankruptcies are due to the cost of an unexpected healthcare emergency.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:11 pmLittle young rethug, When you going down and sign up to defend your country? Thsi country needs young strapping hunks like you to save the world from all those evil people. Man up buddy, The Army needs guys like you.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:12 pmTYR
Take a hike.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:14 pmseriously, if it’s so awful why AREN’T we hearing more from the angry abused citizens of Canada and the United Kingdom…?
i hope they are not too offended by these idjits of ours…
July 10th, 2009 at 6:17 pmAnd vaccines cause autism, and trees cause more pollution than cars, and the world is flat.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:18 pmAmericans have always been ready to give their lives to preserve their freedom. I for one salute the casualties of profit-based, employment-dependent health insurance as the martyrs for freedom they are. Surely we can have a Tomb of the Unknown Un- (or Under-) Insured for one of them.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:19 pmIn a speech on the House floor this afternoon, Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) railed against health care reform. Specifically, Broun attacked the idea of a public plan, saying “this program of ‘government option’ is being touted as being the panacea, the savior of allowing people to have quality health care at an affordable price is gonna kill people.” Broun pointed to Canada and the United Kingdom in his argument against the public option, claiming that those countries “don’t have the appreciation of life as we do in our society.”
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Where is President Obama?
The health care debate is long overdue for a concise presentation to the American public. If this is the example of Republican dialog, they don’t deserve a place at the table. The Democrats are overdue to check and counter check this type of rhetoric.
We the public deserve better thinking from our elected officals!
July 10th, 2009 at 6:25 pmBroun is just saying what his constituents want to hear here in GA. The majority of the poor people here continue to vote for republicans and continue to receive little or nothing in return. They don’t really care that they’re voting against their own interests, just that the politician is white, republican, pro-life, a Christian (or so they say), likes guns, and hates LGBT persons, hispanics, blacks, muslims, and loves sending U.S. troops to war in foreign countries. The stupidity here about the issues we face is appalling. They revel in their ignorance, emotionally charged defense of Bush II, and hatred of all things Obama.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:25 pmMore and more, people are losing their homes and jobs and are reaching out to Isakson and Chambliss for help, both of whom voted against the stimulus $ and the mortgage cramdown legislation. That should have told them something, but it didn’t, so IMO, they got exactly what they voted for.
Does this mean that the lack of health care for forty some million Americans doesn’t kill anyone?
July 10th, 2009 at 6:27 pm“Rep. Paul Broun claims the public option ‘is gonna kill people.’”
Here we go.. Another new GOP drama queen. Now, public option ‘is gonna kill people.’ Seriously, the House of Representatives on Capitol Hill is turning into the 21th century versioon of TV show comedy: Night Court. Pass the popcorn please…
July 10th, 2009 at 6:29 pmThe percentage of Americans who strongly or somewhat approve of how he is doing his job has fallen to 51 percent in the latest Rasmussen polling — the lowest ever. Because Obama got 52 percent of the vote in the presidential race, defeating McCain by 52-47, the fact that his approval has dropped below his vote share indicates that he is actually shedding real support for the first time.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:31 pmRLF: I think you’re confused. This is the “Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA) is an idiot Republican” thread. As soon as Obama’s popularity plummets to Bush-20% levels, you can report back.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:34 pmwhoa.
breaking news… not to us, but,
kelly odonnel is reporting that boosh hisself ordered that call to ashcroft’s hospital room…
huh.
imagine that…
July 10th, 2009 at 6:34 pmRep Broun, this Paul Broun, the religious rightie??
some christian he is denying the most needy healthcare.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:46 pmOne would think the recently announced Obama CUTS to MEDICAID MEDICARE would result in early deaths to Americans on those programs.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:50 pm•$110 billion by making across-the-board “productivity adjustments” to Medicare payment increases. The proposal would slow projected increases in Medicare payments to hospitals and other providers, excluding physicians, to promote more cost-effective care;
•$22 billion by cutting reimbursements for imaging services, skilled nursing and inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals, as well as waste- and fraud-reduction efforts (Bettelheim, CQ Today, 6/14);
•$106 billion by reducing subsidies for hospitals that provide care for the uninsured as more people gain coverage. Payments would be slowed beginning in 2013 and by 2019, payments would be 25% of what hospitals received in 2013; and
•$75 billion by reducing Medicare prescription drug benefit reimbursements to drugmakers (Meckler, Wall Street Journal, 6/15).
Republicans Love Facts Says:
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The percentage of Americans who strongly or somewhat approve of how he is doing his job has fallen to 51 percent in the latest Rasmussen polling
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Rasumssen is a republican propaganda poll. Get real.
July 10th, 2009 at 6:51 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
Use these numbers.
http://www.pollingreport.com/obama_job.htm
July 10th, 2009 at 6:53 pmkaty,
July 10th, 2009 at 6:56 pmThis is the way America moves forward…
… By shoving facts of the past down the memory hole.
sc mom,
July 10th, 2009 at 6:58 pmHow much did Rep. Broun’s Christ profit from His health care services?
The Young Republican Says:
Ah yes this fresh high mids smells dank, can’t wait to get blazed. Well time to smoke it and chase some teenage pussy around. Puff puff pass it to myself oh thank you how nice. Have fun libs!
You mean you’re normally stoned when you post here? You’re that stupid straight? And good luck with your sister, I hope she knows you put a roofie in her milk.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:06 pmCongressman Broun: Newsflash people are dying now, asshat.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:10 pmhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022702116.html
…claiming that those countries “don’t have the appreciation of life as we do in our society.”…
WTF? Only Republican Americans appreciate life???
The more these oafs, these cretins, these sanctimonious, thoughtless fools speak, the more they show us what some of us have long held as fact — the repugniscum are more than an embarrassment to the nation, they are a boil on the ass of America. Will anyone demand this pompous ass apologize? That’s the LEAST he should do.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:42 pmLast I read some 30,000 Americans die every year because they cannot get health care.
Don’t know what the final tab may be for subsidizing low income Americans to get insurance and charging everyone else, including the wealthy.
But here’s an idea for paying for this:
5% of the proposed defense budget of $527 billion for FY 2010 would be $26.35 billion. Gates has proposed even more for defense:
From the Center for American Progress’s own Fact Sheet on Proposed Fiscal Year 2010 Defense Budget
A defense spending increase—not a cut
The defense budget proposed by Secretary Gates does not represent a defense cut. In fact, the budget proposal represents a defense spending increase, making it the 11th straight year the core defense budget has risen in real terms.
* FY 2009 defense budget $513 billion
* FY 2010 defense budget request $534 billion
This represents an approximately $21 billion increase.
How about FREEZING the defense budget at last year’s amount and using the savings (every year?) to keep people healthy. This would not all be funded by the government. Many would be required to buy into the system. And many would welcome the opportunity to buy into a much cheaper option to save their lives and to save the economy.
I am so sick of these clowns (who are obviously being paid by the insurance corporations) dictating what we the people must do to keep paying their campaign donations and investment profits.
July 10th, 2009 at 7:50 pmI’m Canadian. I have lived with the dreaded socialized medicine all of my life. It has provided:
1. Artificial hip surgery including followup for minor injury to hip. Plus rehab. Several broken limbs fixed (I was an active and somewhat clumsy child.
No payment out of pocket!
2. My niece has had two (2) kidney transplants.
No payment out of pocket!
Wife had surgery was in hospital for 1 week.
No payment out of pocket!
I can visit any clinic any time. No cost.
Many doctors give medications free to start (usually 6 weeks worth)
I waited 1.5 months for my hip replacement.
Niece was operated on as soon as donor was cleared.
Wife was operated on within 1 month of seeing doctor.
I have lived in 2 separate provinces and coverage was seamless.
We pay 90$ per month for coverage to cover 2 people.
No copays.
There you have it. What is the problem?
July 10th, 2009 at 7:53 pmTo #74: The problem is our U.S. system which allows legal bribery of elected officials. Those who get more to support the defense contractors or HMOs or polluters, will fight tooth and nail to maintain the status quo which is so corrupt on both sides of the aisle that we must start over. Start over means throw the bums out and deny them any reason to keep killing us and our economy for their own power and personal gain. The Blue Dogs will be held accountable, and if they don’t know that yet, then they are stupid and need to be investigated.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:10 pmRepublicans Love Facts Says:
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The percentage of Americans who strongly or somewhat approve of how he is doing his job has fallen to 51 percent in the latest Rasmussen polling — the lowest ever. Because Obama got 52 percent of the vote in the presidential race, defeating McCain by 52-47, the fact that his approval has dropped below his vote share indicates that he is actually shedding real support for the first time.
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Republicans Love Facts,
I am indebted for your interesting insight into Obama’s poll ratings. I just checked some polling information (polling report.com). The span observed over several polls
indicates that a favorable rating from 55% to 76% for Obama. That is a very different representation of fact than you indicated with one poll.
The Republican congressional approval rating ranged from 12% to 42%.
The Democratic congressional approval rating ranged from 21% to 49%.
RLF, this was a quick glance and I am no statistical expert, but I find your claim a little dishonest. From my perspective, Obama enjoys overwhelming support with formable political capitol. The Democrats in congress are edging out the Republicans by a narrow margin. The most noteworthy finding is the low 12% rating in one of the polls. This may represent the caustic nature of the Republican response to Obama.
I believe your little 51% observation is very similar to Paul Broun’s speach in congress today.
It is not wise to frame an argument on false premises, or information that is incomplete.
This is the real world we are dealing with, not the Republican’s “altered reality”.
Point of interest, altered reality was the term for the reality of the world under the influence of LSD.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:14 pmthank you, Canuck42!
tell your friends, please… we need more facts out there!
July 10th, 2009 at 8:34 pmBroun is a pathetic excuse for a human being!
July 10th, 2009 at 8:39 pmHe gets affordable, quality health care – thanks to taxpayer dollars- and it hasn’t killed him!
As a Canadian I have no problem at all with our health care system. Nor have any of my family members during my lifetime. I wouldn’t trade it for a second for what you guys have. I’d speak more on the subject but since I’m Canadian I don’t really have much of an appreciation for your lives so I’ll end it here.
btw, if the U.S. has so much damned appreciation for life how do this turd explain the Iraq war… torture at Gitmo & other prisons… treatment of Katrina victims. Ah, I just don’t understand I guess.
July 10th, 2009 at 8:42 pmWhere’s the FREEDOM? Huh? Huh? Tell me that, Canuck42. You bought your hip at an awful price.
(Can I have the Fox job now? Can I? Can I?)
July 10th, 2009 at 9:03 pmLSOC!!!!! (Lying Sack Of Crap)
July 10th, 2009 at 9:14 pmDave C Says: #79
Hear! Hear! These weirdos who are defending our failed system are like people in dysfunctional families who refuse to tell the police who beat them up, blacked their eye, and broke the furniture for fear of what people would think. They defend the nation that is punishing it’s people. I have little respect for wingnuts excusing the failed US healthcare system.
July 10th, 2009 at 9:19 pmI wonder how this scumbag wingnut voted on health care for children in poverty. Wait, no I don’t, I know exactly how he voted, along with every other Republican slimebag.
This a$$hole says he is afraid people are going to die but voted to kill children. How I hate Republicans.
July 10th, 2009 at 10:16 pmWTF? More teabagger greed.
We aren’t making you joint the “Public Option” plan. Pay for the overpriced ever rising procedures and operations.
We want the save ‘Option’ YOU have and WE PAY.
Take the lobbyists’ healthcare money for your next trist or you next failed attempt at governing. IDGAF.
broun! Our lives are worth just as much as your sorry life.
People are dying while you stand their like GOD. GTFOOH!
July 10th, 2009 at 10:52 pmIf the Canadien, British and other countries that have universal health care are so decrepit and awful then how come their people aren’t screaming for such a wonderful system like ours? Because they would never, ever want what is actually a sick and disgusting health care system based on greed.
The insurance companies single trump card is the dreaded ‘pre-existing condition.’ If you think about it everything is a pre-existing condition. Can you imagine having a job that requires you to intentionally deny care to someone with cancer just so you can get a bonus? All the people that have jobs like that with insurance companies should be in jail. At the very least these sick and pathetic shitstains should all get very sick very quick. What goes around…
July 10th, 2009 at 11:04 pmWhat’s up with you jimmcdosh? A quick perusal of your posts show you think the post on Rev. Lee is a black thing (?), that you agree with the brain dead repub. above, and think Rove is none too bright.
All the while promoting your ISP webpage.
Please, just go somewhere else. Especially if your not developed enough to have a valid opinion, one way or the other.
July 10th, 2009 at 11:09 pmUntil this drop, all Obama was doing was losing McCain voters. Now he is losing his own. It didn’t really matter whether people who voted for McCain approved of the job Obama was doing. They were never part of his base. But now voters who pulled the lever for Obama have started to tell pollsters that they disapprove of his job performance. As he wades deeper into the healthcare reform battle, raises taxes to pay for it and pushes cap-and-trade legislation, the drop is likely to be even sharper and much, much steeper.
July 10th, 2009 at 11:12 pmI’m informed, by the way, that Ann’s allegation is “totally true–and [Olbermann] knows it’s true.”
Could it have been just last week that Olbermann was taking perverse delight in offering viewers a dramatic reading of Mark Sanford’s romantic emails? Yup. Looks like Keith can dish it out but can’t take it . . .
July 10th, 2009 at 11:17 pmrlf: For once you are somewhat correct. Obama’s ratings drop every time he tries to compromise with these pro-death publican types. We are tired of the carnage caused by rationing of health care so that only the well-off can afford it.
July 10th, 2009 at 11:19 pmRepublicans Love Facts sounds like the latest incarnation of ConservativeforPlagiarism, who was in the cute habit of quoting others without any attribution or quotation marks. Besides, even if the poll Plagiarist lifted from Dickhead Morris were not from a slanted reichwing organization, I believe a 1% difference is usually viewed as being within the margin of error.
republicans hate facts Says:
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Republicans Love Facts Says:
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The percentage of Americans who strongly or somewhat approve of how he is doing his job has fallen to 51 percent in the latest Rasmussen polling — the lowest ever. Because Obama got 52 percent of the vote in the presidential race, defeating McCain by 52-47, the fact that his approval has dropped below his vote share indicates that he is actually shedding real support for the first time.
More PLAGIARISM from the FAT *SSED TEABAGGER – SHOCK! What a USELESS LITTLE D*UCHE you are…
Here’s the *ORIGINAL* link that *MORON* *STOLE* like a GOOD LITTLE IMMORAL TARD…
http://pundits.thehill.com/2009/07/10/obama%E2%80%99s-poll-numbers-drop/
July 11th, 2009 at 12:24 amIn addition to the U.K. and Canada, there is Japan, which has a national health care option and usually places within the top three average lifespans in the world. Currently it ranks number #1 for women and number #2 or 3 for men.
July 11th, 2009 at 12:26 amMaybe the Congressman was looking in a mirror when he made that statement?
July 11th, 2009 at 12:46 amThese Republicans must believe that the Gospels are tainted with liberal bias. There is no reason to believe that Jesus was all down with that hippie love your neighbor and taking care of the least of us crap…
July 11th, 2009 at 1:10 amRep. Paul Broun claims the public option ‘is gonna kill people.’
Proof it won’t?
July 11th, 2009 at 1:11 amI’m glad RLF, that you are SO PRO-LIFE to be SO concerned about the welfare of people that I know in my bleeding heart that you are calling upon the insurance companies to stop denying coverage due to “preexisting conditions.” After all, we all know that Republicans are truly pro-life and not pro-profit…You are quite an honorable person.
July 11th, 2009 at 1:13 amTo ConservativeforPlagiarism,
The longer life expectancy rates in countries with the public option
Republicans Love Facts Says:
July 11th, 2009 at 1:15 amRep. Paul Broun claims the public option ‘is gonna kill people.’
Proof it won’t?
Republicans Love Facts Says:
Rep. Paul Broun claims the public option ‘is gonna kill people.’
Proof it won’t?
July 11th, 2009 at 1:11 am
Let’s see you provide some proof it will. You’ve got Rep Broun on your side.
July 11th, 2009 at 1:35 amZooey Says:
You missed all the fun today, we had a live one downstairs on a day old thread
July 11th, 2009 at 1:45 amLINK
Hi, Reg. I was without internet for a few days. I’ll check it out.
July 11th, 2009 at 2:11 amRepublicans love to be morons molests small furry animals
Prove you dont.
My GOD you are stupid. STFU and kill yourself in whatever order you think most appropriate
July 11th, 2009 at 6:30 amThese people are too stupid to realize that the talking points provided to them by the healthcare conglomerates make them look ridiculous. They also seem to be unaware that everything they say is being recorded and has a way of coming back on them.
For the average person, we have taxation, but no representation. Too many elected leaders are in the pocket of corporate interests.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:33 amcynatnite Says:
Obviously, this man hasn’t heard about the numerous times insurance companies have killed people by denying life-saving treatment.
Daddy-O says:
Sure he’s heard it. But he doesn’t believe it.
Sure he believes it….He just doesn’t care.
July 11th, 2009 at 9:55 amMr Broun will be disappointed to see this….
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07102009/watch2.html
July 11th, 2009 at 11:04 amAs far as I am concerned Canada and the UK have much more respect for live than does the US. There health care is a right and not a privilege. Many people die daily because of their inability to afford health care.
Besides, talk to the millions of Americans whose quality of life or life itself has been compromised by the for-profit health care industry that turns down needed treatments daily to improve their profit margin.
July 11th, 2009 at 11:16 amBroun is another fine example of the evangelical madness that has taken over the repiggie party.
Evangelicalism is the fastest growing mental illness in the nation. It pays no attention to the teachings Jesus. It has a fetishistic obsession with violence, blood and death.
Those who wish to follow that sick cult are free to do so. Keep it out of the public sphere and out of my life.
July 11th, 2009 at 12:20 pmAnother right-wing nutbag!
July 11th, 2009 at 4:16 pmGhost Walker373
Why are morons like you so proud of how stupid you are? You just repeat the stupidest programming the screechmonkeys that do your thinking for you have programmed you with. You make yourself look like a fool. You are stupid and dont even have a clue what you are talking about. Has the government destroyed the military? Social Security? The highway system? You are so stupid you spew this nonsense as if it makes sense. Just because Rush tells you to believe it doesnt mean it makes sense
July 11th, 2009 at 6:23 pmGhost walker….
Interesting verbage coming from the sexually supressed right..
What’s it like to live in constant fear?
July 11th, 2009 at 8:01 pmYou don’t have to live in fear ya know…why don’t you just end it all?
Take 15 or 16 sleeping pills and go quietly away…
Obviously this guy is so ill informed that he does not even know about the Canada provincial medical plans operated by each provincial government entity. As a patient, I had my second heart surgery in Canada. All together I have had 4 heart surgeries and the care I got in Canada was first rate as it was in three different stats in the US. I had first rate hospital care, nursing care, competent surgeons in all four instances. Only thing that was different is that in Canada, I had mandatory province-wide medical insurance and I did not end up with hundreds of thousand in doctor and hospital bills. The beauty of my Canadian surgery was that the moment I needed it, I could afford to have it immediately, thus reducing the cost of hospitalization due to complications.
July 12th, 2009 at 2:16 amThis country is starting to remind me of those sci-fi movies where the authorities tell everyone that it’s really, really bad OUT THERE so you need to stay in here for your own safety.
Trust us, they say, we’ll keep you safe.
July 12th, 2009 at 1:12 pmWell Braun.here is an idea….give up your coverage and apply for an individual policy…you will BEG for a government plan.
also…how come it is OK for the US Post Office to “compete” with the private sector for package delivery. I still get overnight shipments from UPS, FEDEX etc….and Global mail from the GOVERNMENT run Post Office.
July 12th, 2009 at 10:20 pm