Aww, Barack Obama invited the health insurance executives to one of Jay-Z’s White House War Salons yesterday and read them “a letter he received from Natoma Canfield of Medina, Ohio,” who has nine million cancers and broken bones and collywobbles, or at least one cancer. The insurance executives responded, well Jesus, Natoma, you think we’re going to pay more for you now? This is just embarrassing for us! Freaking Obama reading this crap on camera here, what is that? What is that? Who does this? [White House Flickr/Pete Souza, CBS News]
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That must be this ‘free market’ thing I keep hearing about…
Obama should act like one of those crusading local TV reporters who you writie to and he harrasses people on your behalf until you get results. Trying to get legislation passed isn’t working out so he should at least do something useful.
The really hilarious part about this is that Glenn Beck was mocking this woman on his radio show this morning. He was all “Waah waah I’m 90 years old and have oozing pustules and (cough cough cough) I can’t see and I need free healthcare.” Whoa boy — there’s nothing funnier than rich white assholes from New York City (booo!) mocking sick people who can’t afford to see a doctor, amirite? Way to stick it to the man, Glenn!
I’m not joking — he really did this.
They thought they were going to dine on the still warm and quivering hearts of Haitian orphans but in there defense that’s what Hopey served the last month when they were invited to a the White House ” Fuck The Public Option” dinner.
If this is what the Obamas consider a party, I think they’ll find their health insurance friends will be busy next time they call.
As he read the letter, all the execs were thinking, wow! she gave us $7,000 and we only paid out $900.
SWEET
The system is working, whats the problem Barry.
Barry read this because Rahm Emanuel told him, “Barry, after all you’ve done to cut the fucking nuts off fucking health care reform, you gotta show the public that you still fucking care about them. Now to show those fucking morons anything, you gotta make it fucking personal. Read a letter for some poor asshole who got fucked by the insurance companies. Personalize it. That’s all these fucking idiots understand. Then they’ll like you better, and they might actually vote for you again in 2012, when you can fuck them again after you get re-elected.”
Or words to that effect.
Among professional con-men, this is called “cooling the mark.”
[re=525654]SayItWithWookies[/re]: My retard friend watches Glenn daily, and preaches his virtues to me. While she suffers without health insurance, and informs me that only COMMUNIST SOCIALISTS want to impose health insurance on those who don’t have health insurance. She has severe skin cancer, a prolapsed uterus, and sciatica, but she doesn’t go to the doctor because of the socialism, the death panel thing, and Jesus, who is going to save her on May 21, 2011.
At least three of the insurance execs were thinking, while Hopey was talking, “A few years ago, we were redlining you people’s neighborhoods.”
You know who else likes cattle prods up the ol’ wazoo? Insurance execs, because they experience it as karmic balance.
[re=525674]St.SarahOfThePerpetuallyOffended[/re]: You’re friends with Sarah Palin? Crazy!
She should be writing that to the Ohio State Legislature. They are the ones the decided against a high risk pool in that state.
[re=525674]St.SarahOfThePerpetuallyOffended[/re]:
Why May 21, 2011 particularly? Why not January 1, or Christmas Day, for that matter? Or Easter? Come to think of it, Easter seems like the most likely day.
Wingnut logic doesn’t even make sense on its’ own terms.
[re=525674]St.SarahOfThePerpetuallyOffended[/re]: Proof that some people are just too stoopid to live.
[re=525674]St.SarahOfThePerpetuallyOffended[/re]: [re=525695]Lascauxcaveman[/re]:
Proof??? You need PROOF!?!?!
Collywobbles are a treatment, not a disease. It’s all part of defensive medicine, the best kind.
Needs more laugh track.
[re=525674]St.SarahOfThePerpetuallyOffended[/re]: She’ll be lucky if she lives long enough to be disappointed.
My minor success of the day — I’ve been trolling a local news site’s healthcare articles and actually managed to get one tea partier to agree with me and say she hopes reform is the right step. Granted, it’s taken three days, but that’s a better result than all the time I spent on that damn Joe the Plumber forum ever yielded.
I’d have to go back and count them but the majority of callers this morning on CSPAN WJ are for the public option/Medicaid expansion. Where the Republicans come up with the idea America does not want health care reform…my guess is they are only listening to anyone in insurance, pharma and the hospital industrial complex.
Like a bunch of kids in the principal’s office. Unfortunately, it’s the snotty rich kids who always get away with everything and they know it.
[re=525712]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Wow, engaging people in comments AND changing minds. See, it’s shit like that makes me love you. I just post angry vitriol, wish people dead and call it a day.
His expression there sort of reminds me of an angry husband reading off his wife’s charges on their Macy’s card. But reading that letter to those pieces-of-shit would probably be about as effective as reading the local statute for assault and battery to the killer whale. Except the whale might actually have some remorse.
[re=525741]problemwithcaring[/re]: Well it took a while, and who knows if it’s going to stick. And it’s difficult to keep things civil, especially when the people you talk to don’t bother — but I like to think polite rational discourse can change minds. It’s the nearest thing to faith I’ve got — but every once in a while it has its rewards.
[re=525654]SayItWithWookies[/re]: As a white asshole from New York City who aspires to be rich someday, I have to ask, why are you prejudiced against rich white assholes from New York City?
Giving a fuck about other people is Socialism. Er, basic human decency. Er, I’m not sure, but pussy shit either way. American Presidents should be total dicks, like James Buchanan, Ulysses Grant, LBJ, Ronald Reagan, George W and *SPOILER ALERT* Sarah Palin.
[re=525768]hotdog[/re]: I’ll tell you what I’d like to have against a rich white asshole from NYC — well, depending on whose it was, of course.
Right after this photo was taken, a trapdoor opened in the ceiling and a leper slid down and landed on the table with a loud thud. As the execs stared in stunned silence, Obama and Sibelius slipped out the door, as more lepers streamed in. The PA began blaring “Rock This Party (Everybody Dance Now),” and the execs realized, to their horror, that they were now locked in, with a roomful of lap-dancing lepers.
And that, my friends, is what is called negotiating Cheney-style.
Ugh. Why read the worst case scenarios?
The real story is that “normal” people who only have niggling little health “problems” but are gettin’ old (yet not old enough for Medicare)
can’t afford our healthcare much longer if fuckers like Anthem Blue Cross etcetera keep raising the shit we pay for their “service”. *
*Not that I don’t have sympathy with seriously ill who can’t get insurance no matter how much they pay, but…
“I know now, why you humans cry” T-1000 insurance attorney
“So tell me, gentlemen, how would you respond to Representative Stupak’s demand that insurers pay for emergency room removal of an intergalactic anal probe?”
[re=525727]lochnessmonster[/re]: The way they get their poll numbers is by twisting the questions. “Do you want a government takeover of health care?” Sounds nothing like, “Do you think Americans should have access to affordable health care?” In a similar vein, “Do you want a government agency deciding whether you live or die?” yields a different answer than asking, “Should Medicare spend more money on prevention and less on unnecessary procedures?”
Ask the right questions and getting 70% to say they are opposed to health care reform is easy. And also, of course, there are a lot of stupid people, including most Faux News viewers. There are even idiots who don’t know Mitch McConnell is full of shit. I know this is true because several of them are in my family.
…several of them are in my family.”
You are not alone.
He undercut his message a little by wearing his bunny slippers to the meeting. And why does it look like Sibelius has her hand on his package?
Appeal to their sense of decency … brilliant!
Is that James Carville across the table from Hopey? What a fucking whore, working for the healthcare-industrial complex now Bill’s been put out to pasture…
[re=525654]SayItWithWookies[/re]: That is truly disgusting, but I can see how a rich white man would be against universal health care. It’s really not half as disgusting as the idiot schmucks who aren’t rich, but who buy into the bullshit that Beck spews even it’s against their own best interests.
Boffo headlines like this one are why I keep coming back here.
Insurance Execs … feel shame?
Best LOL I’ve had in ages!
Isn’t a Natoma a form of cancer? She should have seen it coming. -Glenn Beck
When she said in her letter that she paid out $6075.24 in premiums in 2009 and received only $935.32 in benefits, did the insurance execs all exchange high-fives or what?
[re=525654]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I would ask Glenn if he is saying is, in effect, invoking a “death panel” on ol’ Natoma. Because that’s what it sure sounds like to me. So, it’s really not libruls and health care reform teh Olds have to worry about; it’s angry megalomaniac white male poseurs!
In a world where ‘karma’ actually existed (beyond mere coincidence), Beck would lose his job, the companies he had stock in would go belly up (including his pension fund), and he would then contract a disease, excruciatingly painful to both body and wallet. Folks like irreverent Wonketteers could then make sick jokes about how his health insurance company was no longer at his Beck and call…
don’t all those guvmint workers get Socialized Medicine? including all them US Senators who yawp against their own benefits but still receive good health care paid for by taxpayers.
the reason we got state health care here in Europe (where i live) and you fools will never have it is that our politicians don’t rant about Jeebus during election campaigns.
any politico who spoke out against our FREE health service would soon be out of a job.
[re=525900]inedalo[/re]: MARRY ME
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