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2007-09-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-09-03 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 he owns a Ford Escape hybrid SUV, purchased within the year, and a Chrysler Pacifica

It's OK, he's part of the "other" America -- he can afford to buy Carbon Indulgences.

Posted by DMFD 2007-09-03 00:07|| 2007-09-03 00:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Channeling Dr. Mengola convinced me...you're either in, or you're expendable.

Posted by Phinater Thraviger 2007-09-03 00:13|| 2007-09-03 00:13|| Front Page Top

#3 Y'know this would really bother me if he had a chance in hell of winning. Right now all he basically is is Kucinich with money.
Good comic relief though...

Posted by tu3031 2007-09-03 01:10|| 2007-09-03 01:10|| Front Page Top

#4 This POS trial lawyer has a chance, don't underestimate him, the other lawyers will flock to him and bury him in support and money. The Dems want you to focus on Hillary and Obama when this is the turd they want to run.

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-09-03 01:41|| 2007-09-03 01:41|| Front Page Top

#5 This plan has Edwards-style lawsuits written all through it. He'll take second or third in the primaries, and the honourable Senator Clinton will have to find someone she doesn't despise to take the vice president slot on the ticket. I've recently read that Democrats involved in the House and Senate races -- and those concerned about the results -- are starting to worry how many seats she's going to lose for them.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-09-03 03:36|| 2007-09-03 03:36|| Front Page Top

#6 Don't go down the route of Government "heath care" it basically means that the state nationalises everyone's body.

There are ways for the state to subsidise healthCARE without owning people, but that removes power from politicians, and they won't go for those ideas.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-09-03 04:23|| 2007-09-03 04:23|| Front Page Top

#7 So, Sen. Edwards, when will we nationalize legal services?

Posted by no mo uro 2007-09-03 07:08|| 2007-09-03 07:08|| Front Page Top

#8 ...patients develop 1.7 million infections in hospitals each year, and it says those infections cause or contribute to the death of 99,000 people a year â about 270 a day.â - http://www.timegoesby.net/weblog/2007/08/medicare-and-ho.html

If you kill them off fast enough, your costs will eventually start to 'stabilize'. The more you force into the environment, the more opportunities for lawyers like Mr. Edwards.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-03 08:06|| 2007-09-03 08:06|| Front Page Top

#9 But... but... but...

We'll get that top-rated Cuban style health care won't we?

(mean the elite (like Edwards) get top rated and the rest of us get the peeling-paint 'health' clinics with bug-infested blood soaked beds....)

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-09-03 08:21|| 2007-09-03 08:21|| Front Page Top

#10 You'll get a lot of people dying waiting to get into "peeling-paint 'health' clinics with bug-infested blood soaked beds"

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-09-03 09:06|| 2007-09-03 09:06|| Front Page Top

#11 That too.... same as in 'Glorious' Cuba.... :)

Not to mention the number who die from mere visit to a 'Clinic' as Procopius2 pointed out.

Posted by CrazyFool 2007-09-03 09:13|| 2007-09-03 09:13|| Front Page Top

#12 My brother-in-law's dad,Ershel, had a triple bypass 20 years ago when he was 60 years old.At 80 years of age, He went to the doctor for a check up, and the heart doctor told him they might have to go in again and do more work on his heart.Ershel reminded the doctor that at the time of the surgery he was promised that the triple by-pass would last him his lifetime.The doctor replied "I know Ershal,but to tell you the truth, I didn't expect you to live this long!"

Posted by darrylq 2007-09-03 10:04|| 2007-09-03 10:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Edwards and Democrats... stay off of my body... er... ovaries... er... whatever!!

Posted by Javiling White6091 2007-09-03 10:18|| 2007-09-03 10:18|| Front Page Top

#14 It'll be nice to have the govt. force you to appear for your prostate probing.

Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-09-03 11:09|| 2007-09-03 11:09|| Front Page Top

#15 Totalitarianism comes soooo easily to leftist-liberals. No point in debating the issue with them though. They feeeeel they know what's best for those whom they govern.

Posted by Mark Z">Mark Z 2007-09-03 12:05|| 2007-09-03 12:05|| Front Page Top

#16 I reckon they want to won people, not govern them.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-09-03 13:00|| 2007-09-03 13:00|| Front Page Top

#17 For crying out loud, just look over the pond to the NHS. Double the money spent on it since ZaNuLabour came to power. You're ok if you happen to have the right post (zip) code and if you happen to have something that is one of their 'targets'. But otherwise, forget it. We're letting in Doctors from all around the world (many with very dubious credentials - remember the filth that tried to kill people in Glasgow? - they were Doctors) because the older Doctors left in disgust at the way they were being treated (amongst other reasons).

Total control - that's all they want, and that's all they'll accept.

Throw this out, throw it out, kill it, drive a stake through its heart and then burn it. You don't need this. Want to know what's going to have the most effect on American's health care over the next few years? Medicare's decision to stop paying out on 'preventable errors' . As they say, RTWT.

Oh, and anyone who pays $1000+ for a haircut that looks like the one he's got can't be taken seriously.

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-09-03 14:17|| 2007-09-03 14:17|| Front Page Top

#18 G'ah the link got nuked. Here it is: Patient Safety as Job One

Posted by Tony (UK) 2007-09-03 14:19|| 2007-09-03 14:19|| Front Page Top

#19 I heard a story about how Joe Stalin once told one of his generals that he needed surgery. The general didn't think so but had no choice but to undergo the prescribed procedure. I can't remember how it turned out.

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2007-09-03 14:36|| 2007-09-03 14:36|| Front Page Top

#20 Stalin never trusted doctors. But then, hasn't Edwards made a career suing doctors? If you were a doctor, how would you feel about treating a guy like that? How many good doctors have quit because they couldn't pay their malpractice insurance? How many would quit if they had to work for the government? Why would they go into medicine in the first place if they knew they wouldn't be able to make a decent living? And then we would be recruiting doctors from Cuba and Pakistan.

Posted by Abu Uluque6305 2007-09-03 14:47|| 2007-09-03 14:47|| Front Page Top

#21 Americas health problem is Lawyers!

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2007-09-03 15:47|| 2007-09-03 15:47|| Front Page Top

#22 Interesting that it covers mental health as well. Classic leftist theology is that those who disagree with them are crazy.

Rantburgers should contemplate time in a soviet style mental hospital.

Posted by DoDo 2007-09-03 16:22|| 2007-09-03 16:22|| Front Page Top

#23 Rantburgers should contemplate time in a soviet style mental hospital.

Much like time spent reading KOS. No thank you.

Posted by Procopius2k 2007-09-03 18:21|| 2007-09-03 18:21|| Front Page Top

#24 Americas health problem is Lawyers!

Most of our problems are due to Lawyers!

Posted by Natural Law 2007-09-03 19:30|| 2007-09-03 19:30|| Front Page Top

#25 Too stupid to even comment on.

Posted by newc">newc 2007-09-03 23:58|| 2007-09-03 23:58|| Front Page Top

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