Health care coalition premieres powerful new pro-reform ad highlighting medical bankruptcies.
By on Oct 22nd, 2009 at 3:50 pm
Health care coalition premieres powerful new pro-reform ad highlighting medical bankruptcies.
Americans for Stable Quality Care has just released an emotionally-evocative new ad on health reform, calling attention to the plight of millions of uninsured and underinsured Americans who suffer through medical bankruptcies. Watch it:
ASQC is a pro-reform coalition primarily composed of health care interest groups that are in favor of reform — including the American Medical Association and PhRMA.
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Kick the insurance industry in the teeth. Hard.
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:55 pmAfter watching that….I don’t know why you people want to live in a country that does this to it citizens????
THANK YOU CANADA…I LOVE MY COUNRTY!!!
MY BLESSINGS TO ALL IN NEED!!!
FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT!!!
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 pmHealth care coalition premiers powerful new pro-reform ad highlighting medical bankruptcies.
– - Umm, premieres.
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:59 pmIts about flipping time. It has been real irritating to hear the people who own the bulldozer whine they can’t crack some nuts.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:01 pmNOLIESPLEASE says
October 22nd, 2009 at 3:56 pm
I don’t know why you people want to live in a country that does this to it citizens????
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Most of us don’t, for both moral and practical reasons. Which is why we’re trying to change things.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:03 pmThe Party of NO isn’t interested in the well fair of the people they represent as their in the job for the kick backs they get. Senator Hatch is demanding President Obama to change the college bowls so the college in his State get’s a Bowl bid and he could careless about those who need their unemployment and even those who are losing their homes. Rep. Bachmann is completly insane and Rep. Cantor is busy following Britney Spears. Rep. Boner is busy playling golf and as we see our Law Makers got a big raise in their salary as they reduced their days of work to only 3 days. In 2011 we’ll see the Law Makers will have a one day work day and have 6 days off. Now we understand why Coleman fought so hard to keep his job. Now former/host Morning Joe Scarbrough who stopped the investigation of his aide that was murdered in his office in 7-21-01, is looking to return to Politics to start collecting those big kicks backs Wall Street is giving out.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:06 pmWithout one word, the film is very powerful.
Why this is happening in America is simply unacceptable.
There is no excuse. None.
Repugs and the few remaining blue dogs need to concern themselves more with people than with padding their wallets and the wallets of the insurance hogs.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:07 pmJackie, isn’t it incredible that Hatch is so concerned about college bowl games now — the president has so much free time.
This pressure on Obama comes on the heels of criticism that he shouldn’t have taken off 15 hours to go to Copenhagen – or taken his wife out to dinner last week – or that he is “dithering” in Afghanistan.
Honestly, if a repug would show up at my house today, I think I would physically attack him, beating him to within an inch of his life, then take away his health insurance card before I kicked him out of my house.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:10 pmI want to mail a copy of this health care reform video to my local newspaper.
Republicans are heartless bastards.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:15 pmWow. Great ad.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:23 pmAt first I thought he was driving to the cemetery, and at the end a voice over would say something like he had to sell his home, and his wife died because of being denied tests or treatments, etc. I think that would have been even more powerful, but the ad works.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:30 pmThis ad could be re-shot to show the other side of the coin. My Mother-in-Law suffered just as greatly when she shielded her husband who had worked for forty-five years in supporting a family, only to fall victim to Alzheimer’s. He never knew that his efforts were reduced to naught by an insurance industry that collected premiums for his entire career, but dropped his coverage only six months after he absolutely had to enter a nursing home. She had delivered all the care he needed for four years, but finally had to face the fact that her age was making it impossible to go on.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:32 pmI think the wife still in the hospital offers the hope that she could improve with treatment, even as it means that they are reduced to living in a low-income apartment because his health care denied payment for her care. Or he lost his job and with it, their health care; at his age, he will never find a job with benefits; about all he’ll find is a cart boy at Safeway, or a greeter at Walmart.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:37 pmI think the point is that she’s not old enough for Medicare, and, now that his company denied her, uninsurable.
The U.S. lost it’s manufacturing base/workforce because of high insurance costs, period.
Greed has no place for “un-needed” costs.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:41 pmwow. just heartbreaking. i needed a kleenex after that one.
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:46 pmMarie,
October 22nd, 2009 at 4:51 pmEven Medicare has its limits when long term nursing facility care comes up. The plan that I have in my hands right at this moment limits coverage to 100 days in a single year.
Hospice and in-home care are beginning to become viable as daily nursing home fees are soaring past $300 per day.
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kwsventures,
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:02 pmEnroll in a remedial math course at your first convenience.
kwsventures
What part of 0 Tolerance do you not understand?
You can whine all you want, this is going to happen. Get used to it.
Maybe 10 years down the road you can tell us that it was a huge mistake like we told you Iraq was but I wouldn’t put all my money on it if I were you.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:06 pmkws, why are you so proud of being a cynical, uncaring troll? Did someone flush your goldfish when you were a kid?
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:07 pmfear, fear, fear. You don’t even know what you are talking about. Show a scenario where your fears are realized and compare it to the reality now.
Your numbers are so wrong and it’s because you lie.
When 80% of bankruptcies are medical, we have a problem we must fix.
You have no solutions and you have never gotten anything right in the history of the gop. Why should you know what you are talking about now?
You said the same things about social security and medicare.
I can prove it if you don’t believe it.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:09 pmkws, here’s a little history lesson for ya. These are things the gop has said about our ideas in the past. The reality speaks for itself. Read it and weep:
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Got to love the propaganda.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:13 pmHi STORM
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:18 pmStorm,
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:19 pmYes, kwsventures seems to be heaping it on!
Oh, yes, Walt, I know that Medicare limits long-term nursing care. In those sad cases, there are few choices.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:26 pmWhen kws sees his prmiums double and then triple for less care within the coming decade, he may come to realize his error.
Then again, I wonder if he ever realized the error of the war in Iraq?
OT– there was a HUGE “debate” between Gaffney and Reagan on Hardball a little while ago — I hope a video comes up somewhere. If they were in the same studio, Gaffney would have a black eye by now.
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:31 pmHow can anyone see that and not be moved? Great God Allmighty, let’s have health care for all of us! If every other industrialized country in the world can do it, why can’t the USA? Let’s end the greedy system we have now, and get a decent health care system. Haven’t we all had enough?
October 22nd, 2009 at 5:53 pmMarie@27 – in the next decade? Try next month during open enrollment. I think (hope) many eyes will be opened when they see how much MORE Cigna and Blue Cross want, to give them LESS.
October 22nd, 2009 at 6:02 pmWhat a selfish, mean person you are. No wonder no one here likes you.
October 22nd, 2009 at 7:26 pmDr Venture
You are stupid and you are a selfish prick. An Ebenezer Scrooge worshipping pile of dogshit. Tear the medical industry? The reform they are talking about is minor. It SHOULD be torn apart but that is just the insurance part. NO ONE should go bankrupt because of illness or injury. It doesnt happen in any other industrial country in the world. You are disgusting stupid and selfish and the world will be a much better place when morons like you grow up
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:25 amAh STORMfront. Gotta LOVE your ignorance
October 23rd, 2009 at 1:59 pm