The Colbert Report: Commonsense Health Care Reform Infomercial
By Heather Saturday Jun 27, 2009 3:00pm
Barack Obama promotes his health care plan on ABC, while Republicans propose their own health care reform with an infomercial.
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...just as soon as I can find and then hopefully view the video on our own convoluted Canadian Comedy Network site, grr..
God is that ever annoying.
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... linked from Comedy Central. No one outside the USA can see them. You guys have a CnL video player, you should use it.
[Comedy Central notified us they want us to use their player only-Sitemonitor]
"No one outside the USA can see them."
That's not true, i can see it just fine here in old "yurp" ;)
(and if you use ad block plus for firefox you get rid of those annoying ads at the comedy central vid stream, at least it does for me :) )
...prolly sux0rz.
any alternatives, because like a majority of the Dems, they aren't interested in any healthcare reforms either. Both get nice "kickbacks" from all those corporate healthcare entities, so why would they want to change it?
are a good argument for campaign finance reform. It costs sooo much money to run for one stupid Senate or Rep seat that you pretty much have to depend on donations from the rich and the corporations. It really stinks that elected representatives are more accountable to campaign contributors than to the voters.
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I WANT CONGRESS-CARE!
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I want Congress to have the coverage that I can afford...
... And right now, I can't afford any.
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...and especially no dental care except for Medicaid which would pay only for pulling teeth (nothing else), now the rest of my teeth are falling out. And I can't get dentures, either. It makes for hopeless job interviews.
What do you get when you put 32 Arkansas women in a room at the same time?
--A full set of teeth.
and it's a total shame a lot medical healthcare stems from bad teeth. And the gov't will only pay for pulling teeth, as if that is a solution to the problem.
The fact that Oral care isn't recognised as important by who ever decides the shit we're saddled with, costs the country much more in absenteeism, and illnesses arising for tooth and gum infections. People missing teeth are handicapped socially as well. Improper dental care leads to poor nutrition, heart disease, and leaves the body unable to fight off major ills.
I am sorry you've had to suffer with bad teeth. I wish I could help you.
for other reasons too. About a year ago I saw a news item (up here in Canada) about a poor guy who had a tooth abcess and couldn't afford to go to the dentist. The infection eventually spread to his brain. He needed surgery which involved cutting open his head. That sure cost the public health care system a whole bunch more than the dental care would have.
About being socially handicapped, that affects people's health too - their mental health. Being poor is socially isolating as it is because you can't afford to, say, go out for pizza once in awhile, or even coffee. Maybe you can't afford public transportation either, to visit friends and family. Now imagine having those problems and on top of that bad teeth. So it's even harder to have a social life.
Giving those kids to total strangers can't be any worse then leaving them with their screwed up parents. Maybe it would at least get them off the TeeVee
As usual Colbert hits the nail on the head, but what up with that video? Terrible quality.
About this business of "commonsense" - I'm very suspicious of that term because it is so often misused by the right. Remember Reagan's "Commonsense Revolution" of the 1980s? We had that in Canada too, with the Mulroney administration, and a few Provincial governments. It seemed to consist mainly of rigging the economic system so that the rich got richer and ordinary people got poorer. It was supposed to be "trickle down", but it was more like "trickle up".
Here is a list of elected people taking payoffs to cheat the American people and the amounts of bribes being taken. This is just from health care and insurance.
It is mind boggling to think how much these people are taking from others!
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $4,026,933)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $2,833,731)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $2,758,468)
And when you just go right to Big Insurance, the non-presidential candidates who got the biggest legalized bribes were the 7 senators who have been tasked with the job of killing single-payer:
Ben Nelson (DLC-NE- $1,196,799)
Max Baucus (DLC- MT- $1,184,113)
Joe Lieberman (DLC- CT- $1,036,302)
Arlen Specter (R-D- PA- $1,035,530)
Chuck Schumer (D-NY- $981,400)
Mitch McConnell (R-KY- $929,207)
Chuck Grassley (R-IA- $884,724)
We need to investigate and prosecute these criminals now. Severe jail terms are in order for these criminals!
This is just a few of these criminals. There are hundreds of them, all in our government and all doing whatever is best for them.
You did not think they went into government to help you did you?
They went into government because that is where the money is and for very little effort.
Any American not currently involved in government could and should replace the people that are there now. Do a BETTER Job, for 25% of the money these guys are getting.
It was never supposed to be like this. Washinghton said you should reluctantly serve and return to what you were doing before you served.
It was never supposed to be a lifetime job, with health care and reitrement. It was about all citizens stepping up running for the office in your district, getting elected and going to washington to represent the interests of you district. After you served your term you were supposed to go back home and continue your life.
What we have now is no better then the government in mexico. As someone said the other day on here. In mexico they call it bribes here they call it campaign contributions! If you are running for office in congress and it is half a state or even far less area in a lot of cases, and the msm was not part of the problem it would not cost millions of dollars to run for an office you were supposed to be in for two damn years ang go HOME!
This is insane! IT is not what it was supposed to be!
It does not now nore has it ever served us well for the operation of our government to be done by people that are doing it for a profit motive. They have taken something that was ment to be honorable, patriotic, and a duty for every citizen to acheive and preform, into an over blown dash for the cash at everyone elses expense.
We have lost what it was supposed to mean to be an American and have become America the greedy, America the self and not America the whole.
The preamble to the constitution says and I quote!
We the people of the united states in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for th common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Prosterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for The United States of America.
What we have now is an preversion into something that was never ment to be. We are on the track of the one or the few, and off the track of the Many.
republicanism is a mental illness!
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