Thousands of Texans Attend ‘Largest Free Clinic Ever Held In The United States’ To Get Health Care
Thousands of Texans Attend ‘Largest Free Clinic Ever Held In The United States’ To Get Health Care
Over the weekend, thousands of Texans attended what is being called the “largest free clinic ever held in the United States” to get health care they otherwise could not afford. ABC-13, a local Houston station, reported that the event showed that there is an “epidemic” of people without proper health coverage in Texas:
It’s an epidemic here in Texas and Harris County — people without health insurance. On Saturday, the uninsured lined up to get their needs met.
More than 2,000 people came to Reliant Center to see doctors for free. Many of the people we talked to can’t afford health insurance, especially in the rough economy. Some say it shows the need for health care reform.
Numerous patients described their experience with the broken U.S. health care system to ABC-13:
“My foot was turned upside down,” said patient Lillian Beverly. Beverly has had trouble walking since she took a bad fall three months ago. “I really don’t have the money to keep going to doctors and doctors,” she said.
Kevin Braggs is worried about his diabetes. “I’ve been without insurance for six months,” said Braggs.
And Vicki Robinson wants to keep her son’s asthma under control, but she says it’s difficult. “My husband’s lost his job. We’ve gone through our savings,” said Robinson.
And nine-year-old Kempton knows it. “We can’t afford medicine,” he said.
Dr. Mehmet Oz, one of the physicians who worked at the clinic this weekend, compared what he saw there to the post-Katrina crisis:
DR. OZ: We had no idea the overwhelming response we would have, the cries for help from the city of Houston and the state of Texas. … This is the largest health mobilization in Houston since Katrina. So a national disaster which brought out this kind of response is now paralleled by a national disaster, because this is just an average day in Houston, and there are thousands of people who need help.
Watch it:
Although this free clinic was especially needed in Texas, which currently has the largest uninsured population in the country, there have been similar events all over the country.
Last month, more than 1,300 patients showed up during a single weekend at a free dental clinic held in Parkersburg, West Virginia. A few days later, nearly 1500 people attended every day of an eight-day free clinic Remote Area Medical set up in Los Angeles. Former Cigna insurance executive and industry whistleblower Wendell Potter credits his 2007 visit to a Remote Area Medical clinic as opening his eyes to the health care crisis in the United States, and says it was instrumental in causing him to leave the industry and join the fight for universal health care.
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And it will be ignored by the capitalist, corporate media.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:02 pmIF we had single payer, or even public option, these people would not HAVE to go to a free clinic in the 1st place.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:04 pmDUH!
I’m sure this will be all over Fox News in Texas. I’m sure Gov. Rick Perry will give a speech as to how successful this was. And then we will all be stampeded by invisible unicorns.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:05 pmI look forward to the politicians representing these Texans to support a rational solution to this problem plaguing their constituency.
I’ll be over there holding my breath…
September 28th, 2009 at 2:08 pmFree clinic? Isn’t that socialism?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:09 pmcue the trolls to lie and say that we have no health care crisis.
The funny thing with our current troll population is that you can easily call them a liar. Everything they dream up to say has already been proven to be wrong.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:10 pmTexans believe this type of care would be available to them if they seceded ?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:11 pmI’ll bet you didn’t see John Wayne or Randolph Scott there.
Right you are, unless they held it at The Wax Museum – THEY’RE DEAD.
You seem to be really fcuking poor at comprehending logic and comedy.
Like to try again?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:13 pm.
Operation Hey Mackey! – Whole Foods, Oakland
by Jamie LeJeune
http://vimeo.com/6774515
September 28th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
WAIT! Were actual TAX DOLLARS used to fund this socialist experiment?
/snarkx
September 28th, 2009 at 2:14 pmBut…but…but…all these people could go to an emergency room if they needed health care, couldn’t they?
/snark off
September 28th, 2009 at 2:15 pmWhere was Glenn Beck’s legion of drooling fiends to protest this blatant crime by the socialists?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pmCommie S.O.B.s, healing people for free! Who do they think they are, Jesus?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pmFred,
September 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pmOne plus one does not equal two to those people.
Hmmm. Dr. Mehmet Oz, heh? Sounds like he has brown skin. Send in homeland security to send this vile furriner to Gitmo! Socialist medicine! Commies!! Mommmmmiiieeee!!!
September 28th, 2009 at 2:17 pmw_cleon_skousen says:
This sockpuppet is one of the most attention seeking, hole-in-the-toe versions we’ve seen in a while. This is my last comment to or about this reincarnation.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pmIsn’t “Pastor” Hagee’s megachurch in Houston? I thought that Jebus would keep them all healthy.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:19 pmDr. Mehmet Oz, one of the physicians who worked at the clinic this weekend
Bush was quoted asking if his fellow Texans were (remarkably) cured in the land of Oz , and how truly wonderful that is………….
September 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pmI will never forget a comment Michael Moore made after his movie “Sicko” came out. Michael was accosted by some Republican who asked him why he (the Republican) should have to pay toward someone else’s health care. Michael didn’t miss a beat when he said “because they are human beings just like you are.” The Republican didn’t get it. Surprised?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pmWell, Cantor did say that they should just get Charity to take care of them.
Just gotta hate conservatives, what hateful, immoral, unethical phucks.
A big thank you and job well done to the Doctors and Nurses who took the time to help these people.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:21 pm.
DR. OZ: We had no idea the overwhelming response we would have, the cries for help from the city of Houston and the state of Texas….This is the largest health mobilization in Houston since Katrina. So a national disaster which brought out this kind of response is now paralleled by a national disaster, because this is just an average day in Houston, and there are thousands of people who need help.
Dear Dr Oz,
And that’s just Houston, Tx.
.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pmThe last two years in southwest Virginia similar free clinics were held with many hundreds showing up. They spent the night before lining up outside in the rain and then were let into the STALLS in the county fairgrounds where they were treated for such as glasses and tooth fillings.
And this is the richest country in the history of the world!!! When I tell Europeans this is going on, they don’t believe me.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:22 pmGo figure the true Elitist Repiggies have NO PROBLEM paying into insurance pools that “pay toward someone else’s” replacement yacht, Porsche, Titanium Golf clubs, etc.
BUT HEALTHCARE FOR SOMEONE ELSE?????
No empathy, no heart, no soul.
Worthless humans.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:25 pmSee? There’s no health care crisis. Like missmolly said, if you need health care you can go to the emergency room, or to one of these free health fairs.
Problem solved.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:27 pmExpect the right wing and the whole Texas Republican delegation to hear this and start chanting,
September 28th, 2009 at 2:28 pm“We’re number one! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!”
Satire & sarcasm aside, this is the sad truth of the state of health care in the USA.
Fact is, they could hold these in a 1,000 locations simultaneously and have the same amount of turnout for weeks on end.
We’ve become a 3rd World country, folks. Corporations now dictate price, quality, quantity and access to your health care.
America leads the planet in making money off of it’s sick citizens.
Barton, Cornyn, Perry, et al supposedly ‘represent’ Texas. I’ll bet you a dollar to a dime none of them were at this event.
Unending cash from corporate interests are keeping the coals stoked for health care reform resistance while they’re literally buying up congresscritters to sway public opinion.
They will stop at nothing to protect profit.
They aren’t Americans, they are greedy corporatists who believe money is more powerful than doing the right thing.
Remember this at the ballot box in 13 months. Remember who was bought off, who supported reform, and who ‘didn’t have time’ to get involved with this crucial moment in time.
I know I will…
September 28th, 2009 at 2:29 pmHow dare he point out the obvious?!
September 28th, 2009 at 2:29 pmAlthough this free clinic was especially needed in Texas, which currently has the largest uninsured population in the country
And this is the state that has the biggest apoplectic fit when Obama’s name is merely mentioned …………..Go figure
September 28th, 2009 at 2:30 pmHuffington Post says 5,600 were at the Wise Virginia County Fairgrounds:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-sullivan/the-uninsured-line-up-for_b_245705.html
September 28th, 2009 at 2:32 pmThey should hold these things right outside the Capitol in Austin and snake the line right past the Governor’s Mansion.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pmIf they held this in every state, I’d bet the biggest turnout would be at the reddest of the red states. Go figure.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:33 pmCantor’s district is in southern Virginia—not too far away.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:34 pmFrom a Canadian….and you say America is the greatest nation on earth. GET FU**EN REAL!!!!!
What a desaster!! Keep spending .53 cents of every tax dollar on your military…while your citizens die. Try rebuiling your own country first before taking over others!!! And that goes for you too…Obama!!!!
September 28th, 2009 at 2:35 pmralphie, course you are being sarcastic. You know that after you get your emergency room treatment, you will get a bill for many thousands of $$$.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:38 pmThat’s great for this week, now what about NEXT WEEK?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:40 pm“Whose golf clubs would Jesus insure?”
September 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pmsome lie or the other?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pmHere I am in Harris County, and this is the first I’m hearing about this.
How’d that happen?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:41 pmmmm mmmm mm barackhusseinobama says:
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Who woulda thunk it? Give something away for free and some people show up. Truly amazing! Now that’s a business model I can believe in!
September 28th, 2009 at 2:37 pm
The US is the only so-called “advanced” nation in the world that views keeping its citizens alive as a “business” , you brainless , drooling cretin…….Life , liberty and the pursuit of happiness are supposed to be inalienable RIGHTS for all Americans……..
September 28th, 2009 at 2:42 pmmmm mmmm mm, I bet you would be first in line to get your prostate examined even though you are having no symptoms except you can’t wink very well.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pmw_cleon_skousen says:
Mr. Keith, but what they don’t say was that they were giving out free pronto pups and cokes to the first 5,000 people who showed up. And they were also teaching ho’s and pimps how to dodge paying taxes!
Is that supposed to be humor, you ass? Do you complain when Halliburton or Enron or Exxon gets advice from some $1 million per year lawyer on how to avoid taxes? Like maybe moving their company to Dubai? Isn’t that worse than the ACORN story I guess you are referring to that is very OFF TOPIC?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:43 pmGov. Rick “we have the greatest healthcare in the world and the people of Texas love it” Perry, aka Governor Goodhair: Are you paying attention? Shut up or secede.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:44 pmPeople across the country are angry about health care.
They will show the right at the polls.
How about it trolls, got just one sucess story from the republicans? Just one.
Never mind, I know you won’t respond to this because you can’t.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:46 pm“We had no idea the overwhelming response we would have…”
I’m surprised that they were surprised.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:46 pmmmm mmmm mm barackhusseinobama@36 said,
Give away a free car to people that can’t afford it and people will show up because they need a car.
Give away free healthcare to people that can’t afford it and people will show up so they can stay alive.
Does that penetrate your propaganda-clouded brain?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pmI’m sure it is you secular progressive liberal atheist moron.
He says that like it’s a bad thing. I’d rather be that, than an authoritarian groupie.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:48 pm#19, Mike Hunt, re: Michael Moore’s comment to a Rethuglican representative about paying for universal healthcare—
“because they are human beings just like you are.” The Republican didn’t get it. Surprised?
The reason the Rethuglican didn’t it is because he ISN’T human—and doesn’t even know it.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:50 pmIn the light of day it seems clear that republicans are not happy unless Americans are suffering or dying.
What a platform to run on. Good luck with that.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:52 pmSorry: In #47, I meant to say “The reason the Rethuglican didn’t get it. My fingers seem to be outpacing my brain today. Mea culpa.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:53 pmAnd it wouldn’t surprise me a bit if Texas secessionists were also in line, after having a fit about the public option.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:53 pmDNFP says:
“Whose golf clubs would Jesus insure?”
Cardinal Glick’s. ;)
September 28th, 2009 at 2:54 pm“W. Cleon Skousen was not a historian so much as a player in the history of the American far right; less a scholar of the republic than a threat to it. At least, that was the judgment of J. Edgar Hoover’s FBI, which maintained a file on Skousen for years that eventually totaled some 2,000 pages. Before he died in 2006 at the age of 92, Skousen’s own Mormon church publicly distanced itself from the foundation that Skousen founded and that has published previous editions of “The 5,000 Year Leap.”
Skousen had authored more than a dozen books and pamphlets on the Red Menace, New World Order conspiracy, Christian child rearing, and Mormon end-times prophecy. It is a body of work that does much to explain Glenn Beck’s bizarre conspiratorial mash-up of recent months, which decries a new darkness at noon and finds strange symbols carefully coded in the retired lobby art of Rockefeller Center. It also suggests that the modern base of the Republican Party is headed to a very strange place.”——–Salon.com
September 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pmall 20 of them?
September 28th, 2009 at 2:55 pmAnyone else thinking the Republikkkants are actually aliens similar to those in the old TV scifi “V”? Lizards inside human rubber skins.???
September 28th, 2009 at 2:56 pmyep, W. Cleon Skousen was a racist just like all right wingers/republicans.
September 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pmDr. Oz was on Morning Joe this morning. I knew why he was on, but didn’t listen to his interveiw, being I was getting ready for work. I did see Pat Buchanan questioning him, which made me think, “Oh, boy.”
September 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pmLeslieBurton says:
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Dr. Oz was on Morning Joe this morning. I knew why he was on, but didn’t listen to his interveiw, being I was getting ready for work. I did see Pat Buchanan questioning him, which made me think, “Oh, boy.”
September 28th, 2009 at 2:57 pm
We all know that Pat The Alien Buchanan was grilling Doc Oz about how many illegal immigrants he treated and why ……..
September 28th, 2009 at 3:00 pmThis was obviously a trick by the gummint to get all those suckers’ DNA on file. I’m surprised they didn’t haul them all off to a secret detention center in Wyom….ooops, er uh, Nevada…
September 28th, 2009 at 3:05 pmAnd these are the folks who want to secede over health care reform. Perry needs to look at the plight of his constituents…
http://www.political-buzz.com/
September 28th, 2009 at 3:08 pmNanochips from free healthcare!
Nextconspiracy…?
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Bawreck Omerica says:
waterloo…..
How’s it feel to be following Napoleon?
September 28th, 2009 at 3:18 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
Wonder what Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh have to say about that large turnout?
September 28th, 2009 at 3:20 pmDon’t you love watching the disintegration of the Republican Party? There is a battle raging, and the Republicans really hope it will be Obama’s Waterloo, but the reality is that the shoe is on the other foot.
If we get a public option, it will be the final nail in the coffin of the Republican Party, and they know it.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:27 pmThanks, R’s,
for turning a bunch of average Americans into beggars.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:32 pmBawreck Omerica says:
“I’m a keevy, white trash p.o.s.”
September 28th, 2009 at 3:32 pm67 s/b “skeevy”
September 28th, 2009 at 3:34 pmPaging Governor Perry….Paging Governor Perry.
This story should be sent to all Repugniscum who are opposed to public health…(and Blue Dogs, too if the shoe fits…)
Repugs believe everyone can afford insurance, they just don’t want it.
Repugs believe the people who don’t have health care are the “brown and black” people – they don’t value life like us white folks.
Repugs believe the thousands who showed up were just moochers looking for something for nothing.
Repugs are so afraid of public health because 1) they will see their gravy train of $$ from insurance lobbyists slow down, and 2) they will be seen as selfish and out of touch by their constituents in their next election, and 3) a Democratic (and black man) will have provided an avenue of desperate relief that Americans are crying for in health care, and their rich and racist friends will feel betrayed.
Fcuk the repugs and the horse they rode in on.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:34 pmHi Twajie.
I like the new outfit. It doesn’t make your butt look big at all.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pmwreck america,
Based on 160,000 interviews throughoput all 50 states, Democratics currently lead in electoral votes 350 to 15 !!!! Only four tiny-population states solidly red: Alaska, Wyoming, Utah, and Idaho.
http://www.gallup.com/poll/122003/Political-Party-Affiliation-States-Blue-Red-Far.aspx
September 28th, 2009 at 3:35 pmThis comment has been voted down. Click to read.
That’s 160X the size of your average poll!
September 28th, 2009 at 3:38 pmYou don’t even know how to spell “cell phone”? What, did you fail fifth grade?
September 28th, 2009 at 3:39 pmPS = Pernicious Scum.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:40 pmPolitically Superior says:
Bunch of freeloaders. ” wah I hurt my leg and can’t pay for insurance because I spent all my money on crack and sell phones “
Having said that, please vote us. Pweeese.
Regards (Hehehe!),
GOP
September 28th, 2009 at 3:42 pmPolitically Superior, not one single person in any other developed country in the world has trouble paying for healthcare. They pay half or less of what we pay and they get more. They have a far more efficient system. Noone goes bankrupt. In the US, one million per year go bankrupt.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:43 pmPS,
I’m usually very charitable with my republican money, but if you get dropped from mom’s insurance, don’t come to my door.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:44 pmYou mean you, bush and cheney were there?
September 28th, 2009 at 3:44 pmKeith, you make sense, but not the kind of sense that Political Posterior is able to hear.
Try something more along the lines of:
“We’re number one! It’s only lazy people who can’t afford health care! they deserve to die!”
Give that a shot. Maybe you’ll get Posterior’s attention.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:46 pmYeah, Politically… nine-year-old Kempton Robinson sure has made some stupid choices… why, if he’d been born to rich parents his asthma would be treated by specialists!
I dunno what he’s complaining about…
jackass.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:46 pmPolitically Inferior says:
Nothing of importance.
Hope this a**hole never gets really sick and can’t afford medical care.
Hey Inferior, there’s a rolling donut I want you to take a flying f*** at.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:48 pmralphie, got it, thanks.
So, I should pretend I’m at my high school football game and we are playing the cross-town rival. Rah Rah Rah, kick ‘em in the goolies!
September 28th, 2009 at 3:48 pmOne would think that, if one needed to change one’s name every Thursday to get in the bar Friday night? One would get the hint.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pmThe buildings are on fire
The homeless flood the streets
The sick are lying on the ground gasping for aid
The bank CEO are on the 32nd floor, tugging at cigars and watching the carnage
This is my party’s vision of America.
America: the land of Freedom to the point of lawlessness.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pmRemote Area Medical, bless ‘em, out there proving that we’re just as good a third world country as any of the other ones.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:49 pmI see that the mods missed one in their sweep. I guess they need better bug spray.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:50 pmBill Maher said that if this healthcare reform passes, the US will be the envy of several African nations.
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Politically Superior@72 said,
This statement shows the utter lack of decency this troll has. Total lack of morality. This type of person can justify any crime because he is unaware that there is a code of ethics that all humans live by.
We must incarcerate people like this because they pose a clear and present danger to the security of the USA.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:54 pmPolitically Superior says:
Ahh, so you’re a parody? Got it.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:54 pmPolitically Superior says:
poor wittle 9 year old kempton. Maybe if his parents had a brain and knew that having a child when you’re poor isnt a good idea he wouldnt have had to go like that.
What’s your excuse? Parents could not afford pre-natal care?
September 28th, 2009 at 3:56 pmPolitically Superior is just a heartless fascist.
September 28th, 2009 at 3:57 pmPolitically Superior says:
9 years ago!!!!!???
9 years ago they were riding the Clinton economy.
You know that our party doesn’t take into consideration that poverty increased during the Bush years, right? That the middle class lost ground, right? That incomes actually declined, right?
Do f ucking understand ANYTHING about the economy? Anything?
September 28th, 2009 at 4:00 pmDo we understand
September 28th, 2009 at 4:01 pmWhere are the secessionists in Texas now? Looks like they need a government intervention. They scream about big government getting in their business when the citizens can’t afford proper healthcare.
I don’t know what it’s going to take for the Rethugs and blue dawgs to understand that we need health insurance reform now.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:03 pmPolitically Inferior says:
… crack and sell phones.
Well, if they are selling phones then they have a job.
Grammaticality Inferior would be better suited to you.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:04 pmWhat P.S. means is that, well, poor parents can always off their families. It’s sprouting up across the country. It’s a free, gun-toting country after all. If you don’t like recessions, move to Korea. Real Americans leave tips after the GOP delivers them piping hot recessions.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:06 pmHopefully Dr. Oz will be moved to get the word out via the media. He’s a favorite of Oprah’s and has appeared on her show often.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:07 pmThere are many jobs in this country that require employees to submit to urinalysis because they don’t want someone high driving their forklifts of Cheerios around the factory.
I think it is it is time to pass a law requiring pee tests for all members of Congress. Excess recreational drugs is about the only explanation for their behavior and the sooner they get to rehab, the better off we will be as a country.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:11 pmOops, wrong thread but it still applies.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:14 pmRepublican healthcare plan: sell all your stuff and beg for charity.
America? Aren’t you ashamed of these ghouls yet?
September 28th, 2009 at 4:15 pmAnd Texicans want to secede to keep this system of healthcare!
September 28th, 2009 at 4:35 pmI guess Repubs won’t even support this version of the public option. These type of events dramaticly demonstrate the health care problem we have.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:41 pmI would add to all the above comments:
The TV station has the film footage. They need to corner their Senators and Representatives with this tape. Even better, bring some of these uninsured to the Senator and Reps offices. Make these legislators very, very uncomfortable. Let them explain to these people why they are against the public option. My bet is that it may be just as bad as some of the town halls.
September 28th, 2009 at 4:43 pmPS@72–Get a new schtick—-BORING
September 28th, 2009 at 5:24 pmPS@89—Actually, if your parents had any brains,you wouldn’t be here.
September 28th, 2009 at 5:28 pmI wanted to say that I actually attended the free healthcare event that occured in Houston this past Saturday and everyone there was so friendly and willing to help, it was a great experience.
I don’t understand why the Republican are so against making the necessary reforms with our healthcare system that would greatly benefit every American. No one deserves to not have good healthcare at a affordable price. Why isn’t there more outrage from the public against the Republicans.
In the past, I have voted for Republicans but now I think that the Republicans put politics before people and everyone is paying the price….and the Republicans are sitting back and letting the lobbyist make them richer and we suffer!
September 28th, 2009 at 6:08 pmPolitically Superior says:
poor wittle 9 year old kempton. Maybe if his parents had a brain and knew that having a child when you’re poor isnt a good idea he wouldnt have had to go like that.
That would make a great movie.
So only the rich should propagate? Not any of those poor minorities especially? Wow, you are an extremist class warfare zealot! No wonder you hate minority man born of poverty being your president. What a freak, you should be in prison, or locked down in a mental institution. Racist extremists like you are a clear and present danger to this democracy and should be treated as such!
September 28th, 2009 at 6:09 pmThe world would have been better off if the child was never born? I bet you call yourself pro-life too! How about I say the world would have been better off if you got some empathy…I would say what you implied about that child, but I’m not going to drag myself down to your level…
September 28th, 2009 at 6:15 pmBe careful, 108…some of our trolls will say you don’t deserve to live…
September 28th, 2009 at 6:16 pmjust the bleepn facts,
No. I think the stupid troll was saying that, if poor people didn’t propagate, President Obama wouldn’t be an issue.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:25 pmWhen Governor Rick Perry talks about succeeding, he isn’t talking about the Texans I know.
This fool is so out of touch, have you seen the video what Rick Perry said that he didn’t know that Texas was in a recession…..what an idiot, he might have been joking but I bet you the people that attended the free healthcare clinic over this past weekend would not think that comment was funny, we need to make sure that he loses in the next election.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:25 pmIt wasn’t Twajies fault when he flunked pot of the sixth grade. His teacher was upset because Twajie wouldn’t lend him his car.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:26 pmI am sure if Twajie would of had a couple more tries at it, he would have finished sixth grade and entered junior high.
Had an article in the Oregonian about a free mammagraphy clinic. They had 45 slots, and filled them in like an hour. For 3 women who called, it was too late for them.
September 28th, 2009 at 6:26 pmpete says:
just the bleepn facts,
No. I think the stupid troll was saying that, if poor people didn’t propagate, President Obama wouldn’t be an issue.
If Barbara Bush hadn’t been an alcoholic who drank while pregnant, maybe George Bush wouldn’t have been an issue. ;)
September 28th, 2009 at 6:41 pmIt’s an epidemic here in Texas and Harris County — people without health insurance.
the symptoms of the poverty of conscience that is America.
September 28th, 2009 at 7:29 pmImagine that. People flocking to free stuff.
I kinda skimmed through this thread, but I saw a few trends. What these doctors did was great. More doctors should be so generous with their time and skills. Maybe we could call doctors who don’t recognize a person’s “right to healthcare” greedy. All they want is money. Otherwise they would have more free days like this one.
And charity is not socialism. If these doctors had been forced to do this, or if third parties (usually called “the public”) were forced (at gunpoint) to pay the doctors for these things, that’s socialism.
No force = charity
September 28th, 2009 at 7:44 pmForce = socialism
this should not be
if we cannot make mega profits off the sick and needy we will lose our greatest asset capitalism.
we are a country founded on christain principles and those principles are capitalism
jesus taught many sermons on capitalism
anyone not a capitalist is a traitor to america
this is america now liberals start acting like americans and send more money to wall street the true home of capitalism.
I love my capitalism last week alone I was able to buy two homes under market value due to their owners bankruptcy due to their medical bills.
yes both familys are now living under a bridge and my wife took them some old bread we had left over for their children to eat. we are very religious and proud of it.
we also had a bake sale at church for another family who has a 100 thousand dollar medical bill and we raised 365 dollars for them. we are truly a christian nation.
no socialism for me america. I love my christian capitalism.
god bless america the land of opportunity.
a one per center and a reagan as god advocate.
please readers make sure you see the movie capitalism the love story. :-)
September 28th, 2009 at 8:39 pmIt sounds like the people at the free clinic just want someone else to pay for their health care.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:03 pmconservative guy says:
It sounds like the people at the free clinic just want someone else to pay for their health care.
Only to the deaf and dumb. Which are you?
September 28th, 2009 at 9:04 pmAlejandro says:
And charity is not socialism.
Actually charity is socialism. Jesus was one of the first well known socialists.
What you probably thought you were saying is that charity isn’t communism. Then again in Communism there’s no need for charity. I’m not surprised that you’re ignorant of the difference.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:06 pmAlejandro says:
Force = socialism
No, force is totalitarianism.
That’s what you wingnuts love though – totalitarianism! Just put on your military uniform and spout your nationalism like a good little brownshirt. Your nazi ancestors made the same claim about socialism as well, as they gassed anyone they could pin that label on.
Just to educate you – a hopeless task no doubt. Socialism is what every country in the industrialized modern world has except us. We only have socialism for the elderly and somewhat for children.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:09 pm“Thousands of Texans Attend ‘Largest Free Clinic Ever Held In The United States’ To Get Health Care”
This is not surprising. What is interesting that Guv. Perry is against Obama’s stimulus money and healthcare reform yet the Texans attend in droves a free clinic to get what? Healthcare. Stay classy, Perry.
September 28th, 2009 at 9:45 pmWho knew Houston had socialist tendencies? Where was Rick Perry on this? Why didn’t he call out the National Guard to stop this free health care giveaway?
And why do doctors like Dr. Oz act surprised about the huge turnouts for these things? Does he buy that crap that “we have the best health care in the world?”. At least he showed up to do something.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:05 amJesus healed the sick.
To the best of my knowledge, he didn’t charge for it.
September 29th, 2009 at 1:32 amThanks
September 29th, 2009 at 9:40 amSesli Chat
Sesli Sohbet
Jesus, please protect me from your followers.
Jesus was magic. He healed people with his magic rays. Until human beings can do that, medical care costs money. For those without money needing medical care there are a few choices. One of them is to rely on voluntary action and donation. The other is to use the government to extract money from others by force.
So you’re saying that when I’m forced to buy medical insurance from medical insurance companies (as per the mandates in current bills) then that’s totalitarianism? Ok, no argument there.
Jesus was also magic. And God incarnate. Or something.
Or the stories are just a load of bunk.
September 29th, 2009 at 11:50 ampete #8 wrote: “Where was Glenn Beck’s legion of drooling fiends to protest this blatant crime by the socialists?”
In line with the rest.
September 29th, 2009 at 3:36 pmAlejandro says:
So you’re saying that when I’m forced to buy medical insurance from medical insurance companies (as per the mandates in current bills) then that’s totalitarianism? Ok, no argument there.
So you support single-payer, which doesn’t require mandates. Alright.
Or you support the right to be uninsured. But that means if you get sick and go to the emergency room, it’s going to cost me way more than insuring you would have. In other words you’re still leeching off of me, but you’re also refusing to let me cover you in a method that is more affordable to me.
Totalitarianism involves totality. You can’t have partial totalitarianism. That’s just silly.
September 29th, 2009 at 7:50 pmWendell Potter’s fight for universal health care is has completed an important step by completing this “Free Clinic” in Texas. I wish him all the best.
- Mehul
September 29th, 2009 at 11:21 pmThank you for your sharing.!
October 3rd, 2009 at 9:55 am