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Here’s how it works: Tell us about your family’s medical bill dilemma and how it directly affects your life. Be brief, but be sure to include details about how you got sick, how the bills piled up and whether you expected to be covered in case of a health care emergency.
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and Saw VI is going to contain propaganda about people not having health insurance, and how the companies are evil
I won’t be seeing that movie this halloween
blatantblue on September 17, 2009 at 7:44 PM
Maybe Olberdouche should recount his mental problems and the coverage he had for the failed attempt at treatment.
ICBM on September 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM
there’s a VI? will it ever end?
upinak on September 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM
I should be emailing all my friends, and asking those who read my blog to go the website and take it down by filling the form with a bunch of nonsense before submitting.
Then again, I’m not a liberal so that wont be happening.
classicaliberal on September 17, 2009 at 7:45 PM
Does this mean they have sent reporters to Canada and the UK? Cuba would be informative as well.
shaken on September 17, 2009 at 7:46 PM
How about costs too high because of
lawsuits
gov’t involvement
lack of interstate competition
? ? ?
jgapinoy on September 17, 2009 at 7:46 PM
How about they report on that fake horror story Obama told? You know, the one about the guy that supposedly had his insurance taken away and died which turned out to be a lie.
PBoilermaker on September 17, 2009 at 7:51 PM
Shall we flood their email servers?
SouthernGent on September 17, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Has anyone seen the headlines over at Huffington Post? There is a HUGE spread about how Bill O’Reilly supports a public option in health care – WTH?
KickandSwimMom on September 17, 2009 at 7:56 PM
Have you also noticed how TNT or TBS (can’t remember which) has been running the movie, Patch Adams, with Robin Williams non-stop for a couple of weeks now. The premise is how absolutely horrible and evil hospitals and doctors are and how patients suffer way too much. It was a cute movie when I saw it ten years ago but today, not so much.
sherry on September 17, 2009 at 7:57 PM
I had an unexpected pregnancy and now I have a racist baby. I tried to sell the baby on Craigslist, but nobody wanted it ’cause it’s racist. The Gypsies didn’t want it either.
Things are bad. I have had to cut whiskey budget by over a third to pay for diapers for stupid racist baby. Why did nobody warn me?!
I think what needs to happen is prenatal screenings for racist embryos so they can be rooted out and this kind of thing won’t be a problem.
Okay, here it is.
Tzetzes on September 17, 2009 at 7:59 PM
the daily mail and times of london have probably done more than enough horror story anecdotal stories to offset any MSNBC can drudge up…dont you worry
ernesto on September 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM
“I lived in Maine near New Hampshire. I was shopping for insurance, but because of the reform here my policy would run $800/month. So I was forced to move down the road to New Hampshire so I could get the same coverage for $250/month.. The Horror!
Signed,
p0s3r (you may use my name)”
p0s3r on September 17, 2009 at 8:00 PM
Hey, now. I was a racist baby.
fronclynne on September 17, 2009 at 8:01 PM
I get all my news and political views from movies. And Jon Stewart.
daesleeper on September 17, 2009 at 8:03 PM
This calls for some more undercover work…
d1carter on September 17, 2009 at 8:05 PM
LOL
Nice job, Axelrod.
I suggest we swamp them with stories that muddle their agenda.
bridgetown on September 17, 2009 at 8:06 PM
Not to worry. Seasoned journalist Keith Olbermann and David Shuster will personally check out each story for accuracy and factualness.
I’m not worried one bit.
SteveMG on September 17, 2009 at 8:06 PM
What would happen if everyone filled this out from Barack Obama’s perspective?
I think it would be hilarious.
Claudin on September 17, 2009 at 8:06 PM
I’ll give you a real life horror story that is probably not uncommon. Woman I knew goes to a psychiatrist who turns out to be pretty much a quack. He can prescribe drugs but does not have admitting priv. at any hospitals. He puts her on some meds. The number of meds increases. Then he starts taking her off of one, putting her on a different one. None of this costs her anything because it is all covered by insurance. Within 10 years she is a complete wreck. Her therapist finally convinces her to see a “real” psychiatrist who, under controlled circumstances in the hospital, gets her off all the drugs but one. She makes more progress in the next 6 months with her therapist than she did in the past 5 years. She dies a few months later from a neglected health condition (the neglect was part of her mental condition).
She could have been saved if she didn’t have so MUCH insurance. There are plenty of quacks out there pushing pills on people because they can.
crosspatch on September 17, 2009 at 8:11 PM
Easy, Fox can ask those on Medcaire, Medicaid and the VA and ask them how their treatment went. Should be even more atrocious.
Apologetic California on September 17, 2009 at 8:21 PM
I wanted to buy reasonably-priced private health insurance, as they have in Holland, but not only do physicians and surgeons have to pass tens of thousands of dollars in malpractice insurance payments on to us, they also have to cover their backs by running unnecessary, costly procedures.
Who can afford medical bills? I skip the whole system itself. The president talks of competition in insurance, but won’t let other companies compete in my state.
Stumper. I mean, obviously tort reform is out of the question…
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Tzetzes on September 17, 2009 at 8:28 PM
Well, y’see, Keith, my doctor told me not to take my diabetes medication. Then when I got sick he cut my leg off and charged me $50,000. (He even took my tonsils too!)
Tzetzes on September 17, 2009 at 8:30 PM
Boycott. General Electric. Forever.
bigjack on September 17, 2009 at 9:54 PM
reek of desperation much?
JustTruth101 on September 17, 2009 at 9:57 PM
Amateur hour.
Here we have a cable news network owned by a multi-billion dollar corporation and they pull this high school newspaper stuff.
Amazing.
Okay, community college newspaper. I’ll be charitable.
SteveMG on September 17, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Here’s my Canadian moderate everyday “horror” stories:
My mother (who lives in Ottawa) needed an MRI last year…. 4 weeks wait and to top it off there’s such a shortage of MRI’s in Ottawa that her appointment was at 3:00 AMin the morning.
My father (in Ottawa) needs to get a hernia operation so he’s scheduled for an appointment to meet the surgeon on February 17, 2010!! That’s just the initial appointment to meet with the surgeon. God only knows when the actual operation will be!!
Caper29 on September 17, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Dear MSNBC,
My brother-inlaw- thinks he’s a chicken.
But we’re afraid to take him to a doctor.
In this economy, we need the eggs.
Yours,
A devoted Obot.
profitsbeard on September 18, 2009 at 1:00 AM
Next thing I know I wake up and I’m in a bathtub filled with ice, and there are two incisions in my abdomen and a note attached to the side of the tub saying “thank you for the kidneys…”.
unclesmrgol on September 18, 2009 at 1:01 AM
Problem is that people have no sense of perspective. What if MSNBC collects 100,000 “horror” stories? That is still a tiny percentage of the population. Not much higher than the attendance at a couple of football games on any given Sunday. But they could play 10 a day for 10,000 days and give the people the impression that there is a problem.
Now granted, one is too many, but doctors and nurses are human beings, they are not perfect and mistakes will be made. And mistakes will be made in administering “end of life” orders under Obamacare, too.
I am quite happy with my health care. The last thing I want is some Democrat looking my name up to see who my political donations went to before deciding what care I can receive.
crosspatch on September 18, 2009 at 4:53 AM