I never thought I would find myself in the situation I am in but here I am. 59 years old barely holding on. My wife of thirty years and myself have always worked. On April 9th, 2008 my wife pulled out and was hit by another car. She ended up in neuro trama intensive care on the ventilator for 5 weeks, another week in that hospital and anothe 6 weeks in another hospital. Then we came home with hospital beds and so many other things. Just the drug costs while she was on the vent was $86,000.00. The hospital was well over 200K.
Just the ride from the accident to the emergency room was $13,000.00.
Here we are now in 2010 she is doing pretty good still unable to work. We have no insurance now, so if she ends up with any more complications, and I only have one kidney. I guess we can just hope we die quickly. Maybe that would make the republicans happy.

republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness!

imagine where we would be right now if the Dems had actually given a damn and pushed for single payer...

Auction health care access for life on eBay.
no reserve. all bids final
You are bidding on the coveted purple and gold health care access for life smart card.
This card is free in many Western Democracies.
In America each card goes to the highest bidder.
The bidding will start at more than you can afford.
Ah, You sir, you are one of the lucky ones--- you served your country, you have the purple and gold smart card for free.
And you madam, you are one of our older Citizens and you bought it with your sweat, toil, and tears. Your card is free.
Little boys and girls, for you we CHIPed in.
And all of you our wonderful Government workers, only the best is good enough for you. Any one left out, send in your bid and good luck.

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The video links are seriously screwed up. In this posting, I get a video link to "Oddball" featuring Keith Olbermann that shows people blowing things up and a man who has given over his house to large reptiles. This form of random video linking is common as of about a week ago.

Another way of saying it: The video almost never matches the story!

You might want to debug that!

Lieberman may or may not be a coward (though since he's a Senator that stacks the odds against him) but in this case the problem is that he's a cad.

Ed Shulz is becoming like Keith Olbermann in his special comment segments.

For sure, I need adequate dental care to get some gold or metal fillings for a few of my teeth. So, I was able to send a $40 money order to a Free Dental Clinic in my area, and I will be put on a waiting list for the next 6-10 months or so before I can go in and get all the necessary dental care I need. I apparently have some holey, broken teeth in my mouth, and if I were to go to my regular dentist, it would cost $600-$700+ - just for ONE metal or gold filling, as how much my HMO can cover me.

Also, where is Alan Grayson when we need to hear him as one of the other good voices of the people?

Amazing that these Free Clinics actually save many people's lives, but not so surprising since lacking adequate health coverage is a fact of life in America. Seems like America is the only for-profit health care system in the world, sadly.

Ed, you are a great American. I shook his hand at an event in Portland several years ago, and told him that. It has never been more true than after his little "rant" last night. I practically kissed the TV screen. I have been listening to him since the first day he appeared on the radio...he truly is concerned for "we, the people." Keep listening and watching and supporting his shows....we need a hero like that for all us little guys!

Never a problem finding $ trillions to wage war and enable war-profiteering. Always a problem finding $ millions to take care of its own people. Shameful. Utterly and irrevocably shameful.

Union members in Mass. voting Republican. Murdering Iraqis and Afgans is called serving your country. Ron Reagan is a hero to the working men and women he screwed over. The majority of Americans think torture is OK. Your police murder people every day with impunity. More people in jail than anywhere else in the world. Elites getting fat while the average man loses his job and his home. Lots of folk are really upset that your President has negro blood. A large group of u believe in the Rapture/ Death Cult. Single payer health care exists everywhere else in the civilized world. The list goes on and on. Bottom line is most Americans are both mean and stupid

...fucking laugh. On Fridays Ed has job promotions on his radio show, he constantly pushes a "buy American" theme(and tells how to), and he goes after the liars and hypocrites no matter what their affiliation. Schultz leaves his phone lines open so when ignorant right wingers dare call him with bullshit talking points, the just way that he beats them down is pure entertainment. And Schultz does it in such a genuine regular guy way that to me it is impossible to not love the guy.

I'm glad people are finally coming around to appreciate Ed.

Like Ed, I'm a Shultz too, though I doubt we're related.

I have the good luck to be a Canadian, and we have a very simple, single payer system. It's not perfect, but every Canadian is issued a Medicare Card, and every Canadian is entitled to health care.

In the US, a single payer system is considered a far left, radical notion. In Canada, even the Conservatives at least pay lip service to universal Medicare, even if they do want to strangle it. Now that we have it, they know how dangerous it would be to be seen trying to take it away.

Really, the insurance companies are undermining health care, and making it unaffordable. Control of the health care system has to be taken from them in order to develop a more efficient, effective and affordable health care system.

To an outsider, the American system of health care is stupid, cruel and barbaric.

Hey OBAMA...

Show up at one of these EVENTS...

You WILL get HEALTHCARE DONE!

You WILL go down in HISTORY as one of the GREATEST!

People WILL visit YOUR gigantic memorial on the MALL many years from now...

HOW ABOUT IT, PREZ??

rail against a lack of Lieberman?

I was one of the many volunteers at the clinic on Wednesday and I thoroughly agree with Mr. Schultz's assessment of Joe Lieberman. He really is a coward and has to know the problems that many of his constituents have in obtaining affordable insurance and adequate health care. All who gave of their time were generous and enthusiastic and it was very humbling to have quite a few people who received care profusely thank volunteers as they left the conference center. Might I also say that although I was unable to see the taping of Ed Shultz's show, He stayed well after the cameras stopped, talking politics with many of the volunteers who were there, signed autographs and took time to let people get pics with him. All of this done with the best humor-a really good guy and one who passionately cares about others. Someday he really would make a great Senator.