Billionaires for Wealthcare: Guerrilla Theater: Public Option Annie
source: http://bombsfromtheleftcoast.blogspot.com/2009/10/billionaires-for-wealthcare-guerrilla.html
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WtfIsJuice
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Rockstars!
- 2 years ago
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WtfIsJuice
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atomiclegion
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This has been posted before:
http://current.com/items/91264495_guerillas-in-their-midst-ahip-pollster-interru...
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atomiclegion
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unimatrix0
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atomiclegion:
why the duplicate post?
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unimatrix0
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thedirtman
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I Want Money!
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thedirtman
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adamrl07
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that takes balls, I really can respect them for doing something like that.
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adamrl07
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JonRaymond
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If you though that was funny you'll love this.
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JonRaymond
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EdJoyProductions
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JonRaymond:
This is a very sad story, but an easier way for this woman to get health coverage would have been to get fired from her job, apply for public assistance and voila, medicaid. It would have sucked for her family and for her for a while, but she would have been able to get health care.
I work for the NYC Public Assistance system and I have seen a million stories like this this. I currently have clients that do not work because they have sick children and need the Medicaid. They are not lazy, they do not like being on Public Assistance, thay want to work, but they absolutely can no get a job that does not have decent health care benefits.
It is a fucked up system that makes you quit your job, destroy your life and suffer indignities just to get health care.
Apparently Republicans do not understand that.
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EdJoyProductions
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thedirtman
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"If we ain't broke then don't fix it."
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thedirtman
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remanns
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RIGHT ON!
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remanns
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CalgarC
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lol this would be great at improv everywhere
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CalgarC
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copperdragon
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I laughed but only out of shock
- 2 years ago
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copperdragon
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EdJoyProductions
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I saw this on Rachel Maddow tonight. Awesome. They rule.
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EdJoyProductions
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cadsuch
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EdJoyProductions:
They rule. Yes I'm afraid you may be right. Only they didn't get elected.
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cadsuch
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EdJoyProductions
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EdJoyProductions:
Perhaps we should get them to run. Electing comedians is actually turning out well. ;)
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ochreRobot
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That was an awesome way to stage a protest. They get a 10 for content and a 10 for style.
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ochreRobot
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JonRaymond
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ochreRobot:
More like 6.5 and 7.
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JonRaymond
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unimatrix0
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This poetic protest was aimed at AHIP.
AHIP is the powerful insurance lobby that spends 5 million dollars a week trying to kill health care reform. Billionaires for Wealthcare is a grassroots network looking to stop them - with song.
• AHIP and other insurance and HMO interests spend nearly $5 million per week undermining real health care reform, including a public option.
• AHIP has resorted to out-right lying and scare tactics to block health care reform. They sent letters that lie to seniors about what health care reform means for Medicare, and they issued a report on the costs of health care reform legislation that is so misleading even the reports embarrassed authors distanced themselves from the way AHIP used their work.
• Every year, 45,000 people die because they cant get access to the health care they need. Yet AHIP continues to stand in the way of health care reform that would provide coverage to millions of Americans because the industry is more concerned with protecting profits than saving lives.
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