Frist: Health Care For Gitmo Terrorists "Better Than Many Americans Get"

[kpete]

Frist lauds Gitmo's state
He says conditions good; others say indefinite lockup cruel

By RICHARD POWELSON, [e-mail]
September 13, 2006


WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Tuesday his recent trip to the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp showed excellent prison conditions, including "24/7 medical care - better than many Americans" get.

Nevertheless, Frist, a former physician, said that the Senate must authorize military commissions to prosecute the alleged terrorists at Guantanamo in Cuba and elsewhere for "war crimes." He visited the prison with two other senators Sunday to prepare for Senate debate on legislation to legalize the commissions after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June said they lacked congressional approval.

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[TechBear_Seattle]

1. So he acknowledges that many Americans get shit for health care

Oh, I think I got a brain-cramp from that one. :cry:

[madokie]

9. I just hope you didn't bruise it

[Warpy]

10. He'll never acknowledge that the family business that made him rich

is a large part of the problem.

But yes, he did just admit that a lot of us don't have access to health care at all.

I've had no insurance since 1987 and I have a serious illness. Oh, and to pile irony on top of insult, I'm an RN.

[Skittles]

22. oh that is so WRONG

I wonder how much illness can be atributed not just to the preventable-care aspect lost due to no insurance, but the sheer amount of worry that people suffer.

[rodeodance]

2. you dipstick!!---why not make sure ALL citizens have good healthcare?

[rodeodance]

3. I really wish the DEMS would put Health care as a PRIORITY but they shy

away from doing this!

[OzarkDem]

8. I don't get it, they're really being dumb about it

Its a natural issue for Dems, one they should be campaigning heavily on.

[endarkenment]

15. HealthCo and Big Pharma have a lock on both parties.

The public overwhelmingly supports universal health care. The corruption is deep and pervasive and it is going to take a crack up of major proportions, on the scale of '29-32, to bring about real change.

[tanyev]

4. Said the man whose family become very wealthy from running

a hospital corporation.

[OzarkDem]

5. He's probably right for all the wrong reasons

A large percentage of Americans don't have any health care at all. It doesn't excuse the treatment of prisoners in Gitmo.

And the GOP is to blame.

[MADem]

6. Well, what does that say about how Bush cares for Americans?

Should we all line up for one-way tickets to Gitmo, just so we can get that annoying boil lanced without having to sweat the co-pay?

What does that lame and stupid statement MEAN, really?

Perhaps Fristie is diagnosing them by distance-video...there's some great care for ya!!

:puke:

[Jackpine Radical]

7. And of course he doesn't see the irony in what he says.

Frist's HMO-Mogul family is one of the prime profiteers in a system that denies health care to millions of Americans. These people are incapable of shame.

[liberalmuse]

11. LOL! Classic!

So thanks to Congress not passing a decent health care bill, the cat torturer acknowledges that detainees in a torture facility are getting better health care than we are. Nice.

[kurth]

12. Ya mean a few foreigners get more care than 46.6 million Americans

who get NONE??

[Felinity]

13. Oh no he didn't! K&R

No recs yet? Wake up folks. This is a "where is my petard" moment for Frist.

[Rose Siding]

14. And we're all better off than those kitties, aren't we Doctor?

Some point of pride.

[global1]

16. So Who Can We Prosecute For Harboring And Aiding Terrorists?.....nt

[spanone]

17. Slick headed moran speaks again...spews shit from mouth.

Fuck you mr frist and your kind.

[Joanne98]

18. Is that a smart remark?

[The Backlash Cometh]

19. ho-ho-ho! I bet the idiot doesn't realize how this backfired on him.

[Benhurst]

20. Hey, give Frist a break. It looks like he has finally discoverd just

crappy health care is in The World's Only Superpower.

[Jacobin]

21. That man is dumber than a sack of hammers

I have NO FEAR at all of him running for president. He self destructs at every turn.

What an amazing ass hat.

[RedStateShame]

23. Congratulations, Senator Frist....

I'll bet you just won a bit part in "Sicko!"

[mark414]

24. if that's true, it's partly your fault bill