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GaYellowDawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 09:09 PM
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What I wish I could do at each of these town hall meetings...
Go around with a sign and a petition beforehand saying, "If you don't want government run healthcare, sign here! If you think the government needs to stay out of healthcare, sign here!!" I mean, really selling it. Get a name, signature, and hometown. Oh, yeah, the idiots would sign in a hurry.

Then right before the meeting starts, start hollering - "I've got the signatures of REAL AMERICANS who don't want government healthcare!"

The idiots would cheer.

"And you know what I'm gonna do? I'm taking this list to Washington DC and showing all those politicians ALL THESE NAMES of REAL AMERICANS who want the government to stay out of their healthcare!!"

They'd cheer again.

"And then... they can make ALL of you COMPLETELY INELIGIBLE for Medicare, Medicaid, or VA hospital care!! You can pay for your own damn health insurance!!"

Imagine the howling.
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valerief Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 09:12 PM
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1. Funny. nt
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SleeplessInAlabama Donating Member (341 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 09:13 PM
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2. SOMEBODY would. I'd love to see them pick this one up. nt
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corpseratemedia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 09:15 PM
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3. if they hate it, they can "opt out" when they get sick, and then..
their insurance company can drop them, because that's how the "free" market without govt. intervention and control works.

Really the insurance co. ceos should stop being such cowards and stop hiding behind the mentally deficient/violence prone! They need to explain themselves and their practices in front of the people that they deny care to at those town hall meetings (if normal and sane people could actually get a chance to get in them and be heard).

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