Rep. Anthony Weiner Issues an Impossible Challenge on Health Care
REP. ANTHONY WEINER: Name a single thing a private insurance company does to make anyone healthier, to save anyone money. Health insurance companies operate like they’re supposed to. They’re businesses. They operate to make profits. How do you make profits? By giving away as little, and collecting as much. It’s the opposite of the imperative that we have as the representatives of the people. But this is so utterly predictable because you didn’t vote for Medicare. Your party didn’t vote for Social Security. You had control of the House, the Senate, the Judiciary, the presidency for eight years and you didn’t do anything. No, I shouldn’t say that. You passed Medicare Part D, which said, let’s see if we give them enough money if they’ll do the right thing. Donut hole, anyone? You know, this is like Jabberwocky, which was the language spoken in Alice in Wonderland, isn’t that right Mrs. Baldwin? Through the Looking Glass. You know, if you say these words enough, sooner or later they take on a little life of their own. Well, you can feel free to do that, but the American people know you’re standing in defense of a system that everyone knows is broken, everyone knows is too expensive, everyone knows doesn’t work, and we were elected to change that. Can’t name a single thing ourselves at www.michaelmoore.com
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@pjce3 What fantasy world are you referring to? The one where Obama looks competent?
Take your ritalin and s.t.f.u with your weak ass reply.
@xyrxes1 VERY WELL SAID(read ur whole reply)
I’m cuban and also have witnessed the other health systems the world can offer, and totally agree with you.
But just one more thing to add, Americans are VERY Uneducated!!! So much that they believe what tv news channel say 100%, if u ask 90% of all the republicans, with luck 10% has gone to another country and ACTUALLY WATCHED how other systems work, only if they do, they will understand our point, till then, we are honestly, wasting our words.
@dalmatian847 Just by saying O’Reilly u just told everyone how retarded you are. FOX is straight republican, they NEVER say anything good of democrats. Stay in ur fantasy world.
Clearly you missed the O’Reilly interview that ewxposed him for being a lying, question dodging sack of shit .
In other words, a perfect candidate for Democrats.
your comment didn’t come through suaveone, but i don’t care. It’s useless to talk to you because you’re unreasonable which is par for the course of right wingers. I provide valid points for my position, and all you do is froth at the mouth and make no valid points at all, you just spew republican talking points over and over and over it’s tiring. Fuck off, don’t bother responding because you are so lost and a twit in the highest degree, I’ve blocked you. Go hate elsewhere!
@xyrxes1
.our dollar is about to pass the u.s again as the leading g8 currency so your points are moot and unfounded because you simply are a selfish pig that lives in a bubble and spews hate to anything unfarmiliar than your own surrowndings. You should look in nature, species that behave selfishly or even past tribes of human beings that have not co-operated and helped eachother ALL….DIE…..OFF. XD
(mayo clinics) in the USA that actually do provide top notch care,the rest are mediocre at best.You for example if were hospitalized would most likely be placed in your citys generic hospital.And our income taxes are actually very close to yours because the u.s military spending is WAY more than our yearly gdp lol so per individual we are actually much better off. Case in point Canada was the only country in the G8 that didn’t get royaly fucked during the resession and would you look at this….
@ suaveone
Now for the obvious answers to your ignorance. Yes for minor issues we wait in line, major ones (cancer treatment, heart problems ect) we’re in right now! no one in Canada is denied treatment ever, it’s not in our system to deny insurance because our insurance covers every procedure no questions, no pre-exsisting issues, nodda!
sure some canadians will go to the states for top notch treatment if they can afford it but how about the fact that there are only a few dozen hospitals……
The insurance CEOs love them
THIS GUY IS GREAT
RUN HIM FOR PRES.
look dem wit, we are all aware of the need for reform, but we as americans need to be informed or the idiocy in this bill..if you care about freedom and the constitution you need to take another look at what you have as opposed to what you and we will lose if this bill is passed, and btw, one payer is NOT the solution, SMALLER GOV.. TORT REFORM, MED. PRICE REFORM, CHANGING LAWS TO ALLOW BUYING STATE TO STATE, AND MUCH MORE, BUT ALLOWING GOV. TO TAKE OVER IS NOT THE ANSWER!!!!
are you saying no one stands in line there for healthcare? are you saying no one is denied treatment?? are you saying your taxes are beyond belief?? are you saying no one comes to the us for state of the art treatment as opposed to your status quo???…tell it to the marines pal..as someone familiar with your style of health care YOU can keep the change!!!it obvious you are a dem wit with another agenda, one by the way we as americans do not need!!!
why do people even support republicans?
anti change, anti green power, anti healtcare, anti science, anti evolution, anti gay marriage
pro global warming, pro coal and oil, pro jesus in the white house, pro creationism, they are hyprocrites who rather see obama fail then at the expense of the people.
seriously? who are supporting these dumbasses? they are againts everything a smart logical person is for. why are they even running our country?
he should be OUR President
He’s such a weiner.
He challenged the RatpubliKKKons at their own game … and he won.
Right, everyone knows the system is broken. And the politicians won’t do a damn thing to fix it because too many of them are in the pockets of the insurance companies. Edward R. Murrow said it best when, in a somewhat different context, he said it wasn’t really the fault of the politicians. We the People are the ones who put these corrupt politicians in office, who then end up representing They, the Corporations.
The fault, dear Brutus, is not with our stars, but with ourselves. ?
Do you mean the Rep. Weiner made a bill to get rid of the entire gov. medicare. Meaning Senior Citizens would have to pay health bills by themselves? Just to prove a point. GODDAMN!
Ok you’re American and live in that system of healthcare. I’m Canadian and live in mine. Can you please explain to me what coverage or treatments my system denies me? since you’re obviously an expert on the subject of our system and i’m just a Canadian citizen who has used this system my whole life, what do I know? as far as pills go it shows your misinformation objective. Healthcare does not give out free pills. Our employer coverage subsidizes those. So start your research and disprove me.
We need to go back to the Hill Burton General Hospital System we use to have before the Wall Street Privet HMO & Insurance corporations came into power and shut them down. Check out this video. It will show you the Hill Burton Public Hospitals we use to have. YouTube: LPACTV: Franklin Roosevelt and Public Health
Run for President. Do us all a favor.
This whole reform process is a total failure. We want nothing short of Single Payer. All will soon see that Obama and the other democrats are nothing but corporatists.
insurance companies deny claims 1/3 of the time that is rationing
REPUBLICANS opposed a Government-run PUBLIC HEALTH CARE. They said that it wouldnt work.
Democrat ANTHONY WEINER (NY) took the Republicans at their words & introduced a bill to dismantle MEDICARE & VA Government-run PUBLIC HEALTH CARE plans.
He DOUBLE DARED all Republicans to VOTE YES on his bill & prove to the AMERICAN PEOPLE that they truly believe—that Government-run PUBLIC HEALTH CARE plans dont work
IT WAS PUT UP or SHUT TF UP !!
NOT A SINGLE REPUBLICAN VOTED YES ON THAT BILL