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kpete (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:33 AM Original message |
Exclusive: WellPoint routinely targets breast cancer patients |
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onehandle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:34 AM Response to Original message |
1. There's your 'Death Panels,' Sister Sarah. nt |
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Zambero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:16 PM Response to Reply #1 |
18. Expect no comment from Sister Sarah on this |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. Why care about the peasants? |
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perdita9 (408 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:16 PM Response to Reply #18 |
37. Sister Sarah not a big supporter of Women's Rights |
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awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 06:09 PM Response to Reply #37 |
63. women are nothing |
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tomm2thumbs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:20 PM Response to Reply #1 |
47. +1 and they have it already to go - isn't the insurance industry great!! |
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Patsy Stone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 07:07 PM Response to Reply #1 |
64. Exactly |
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crim son (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:35 AM Response to Original message |
2. This should be on the front page of every news publication. |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:38 AM Response to Reply #2 |
4. SHOULD BE but won't be NT |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:54 AM Response to Reply #2 |
6. Our Pravdas won't print this stuff here in the USSR, the United States of Slavery and Repression. nt |
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Gman2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:38 AM Response to Original message |
3. This article is a lie. They werent culled for cancer, they were culled for |
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brendan120678 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
40. As soon as the insurance companies... |
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MidwestTransplant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
5. Hey, at least we aren't Scandanavia or France. |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:54 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Poor things. They have actual healthcare instead. How do they cope? nt |
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rpannier (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 06:00 AM Response to Reply #7 |
74. They wouldn't have to cope with their Socialist money grubbing insurance |
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valerief (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 11:23 AM Response to Reply #74 |
82. Ha! Which came first: the chicken, the egg, or the hospital bill? nt |
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Diclotican (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:14 PM Response to Reply #5 |
30. MidwestTransplant |
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dbmk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 08:00 AM Response to Reply #5 |
80. We do here in Denmark, though :) |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
8. Advocates of mandated support of the industry that does this can kiss my sig line |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:47 AM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Since you want it to stay like it is, why not CHEER for this company to do this, because this IS how |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
20. LOL Not favoring madates is not same as pro-status quo |
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Mark D. (420 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:45 PM Response to Reply #20 |
42. Because He's Misinformed |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:23 PM Response to Reply #14 |
22. super connected? |
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superconnected (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:28 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. It's a song from the now disbanded pop group Belly. |
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havocmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:30 PM Response to Reply #24 |
26. Thanks for explaining |
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dflprincess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:30 PM Response to Reply #14 |
33. What national health care bill? |
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jeff47 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:02 PM Response to Reply #8 |
71. Question: |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
9. BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD |
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barbtries (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:02 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. as i read your post |
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Dappleganger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:12 AM Response to Reply #10 |
11. Ha-thanks! I'm a Blue Cross of FL survivor |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:26 PM Response to Reply #10 |
23. I thought the same initially NT |
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KaryninMiami (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:20 AM Response to Original message |
12. Geeeez-- scumbags isn't even good enough for them. |
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JDPriestly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
13. The health care bill should have eliminated discrimination in rates |
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Delphinus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 07:42 AM Response to Reply #13 |
79. Sounds like a dream come true. |
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Shining Jack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
15. That's beyond disgusting... |
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naaman fletcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:04 PM Response to Original message |
16. It's too bad we just gave these people more business with the health care bill. |
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Zambero (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
17. Oh, but pulling the plug on Grandma is so much worse |
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myrna minx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:21 PM Response to Original message |
19. K&R n/t |
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Bette Noir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
21. Single payer universal health care would be the simplest solution, |
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The_Commonist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:44 PM Response to Original message |
27. What's the point of having health insurance again? |
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patrice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 12:55 PM Response to Original message |
28. YEAH BUT, Keep your government out of my "Health" "Care"!!!!! |
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Guilded Lilly (960 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:08 PM Response to Original message |
29. As we all know quite well by now |
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TwilightGardener (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:18 PM Response to Original message |
31. I love this: that Wellpoint pays for and encourages mammograms (good PR!), and then |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:50 PM Response to Reply #31 |
43. +1 It's EXACTLY what they're doing. F-ing (you choose the expletive) |
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KamaAina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:29 PM Response to Original message |
32. Today's Worst. Persons. In The World! |
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SocialistLez (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:50 PM Response to Reply #32 |
44. Ha ha, so true! NT |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:38 PM Response to Original message |
34. GET RID OF THE PUNISHING MANDATE!!!! Or get a public option before we give these killers trillions |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:32 PM Response to Reply #34 |
49. Now now now - that is not what the President had in mind |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 04:00 PM Response to Reply #49 |
55. Like when he went to Wall Street to speak of reform while he got money from Goldman Sachs |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 04:07 PM Response to Reply #55 |
57. A lot of the fault is the media's - Back in Ed Murrow's day, |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
35. Most people with serious illnesses get dumped when they don't pay the premiums. |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:10 PM Response to Original message |
36. "computer algorithm"? Or cleverly constructed spin (i.e. pack of lies)? |
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Trekologer (445 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 05:55 PM Response to Reply #36 |
60. They go off of what procedures they've paid for |
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Trillo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:42 PM Response to Reply #60 |
68. If so, a fix is quite simple. |
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doctorspa (9 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:22 PM Response to Original message |
38. wellpoint |
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JoshieR (81 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:24 PM Response to Original message |
39. Capitalism at its finest. |
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DainBramaged (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
41. Since torture is still legal, let's torture the Wellpoint Executives who approved this |
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Stuart G (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:15 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. You are correct...Kick and Rec.. |
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h9socialist (584 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
45. Of course they do participate as a corporate sponsor for the Breast Cancer Walks! |
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katandmoon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
48. "Health Insurance Reform" lets them do this. Obama's big triumph. |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:40 PM Response to Original message |
50. Women are FAR less likely to put up a fight or sue. And they know it. nt |
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Captain Hilts (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:41 PM Response to Original message |
51. "Insurance companies perform an important role." - President Obama. nt |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:44 PM Response to Original message |
52. They kill people to make money - they should be outlawed. Period. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:45 PM Response to Original message |
53. Wellpoint Lobbyists Axed Key Protections for Breast Cancer Patients From Health Care Bill |
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Swede (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 03:51 PM Response to Original message |
54. K&R |
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grahamhgreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
56. "the health care legislation lacks teeth... to either stop or even substantially reduce rescission." |
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Nikki Stone1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
58. :( |
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kimmerspixelated (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
59. As awful as that is, maybe there's a silver lining |
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cutlassmama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 06:08 PM Response to Reply #59 |
62. The Paw-Paw herb is supposed to do that. |
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onlyadream (821 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 06:03 PM Response to Original message |
61. My friend had breast cancer |
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Tx4obama (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 07:10 PM Response to Original message |
65. Gonna be a segment on MSNBC Countdown tonight regarding this issue. n/t |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 07:43 PM Response to Original message |
66. k |
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crushx (2 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:35 PM Response to Original message |
67. This nearly happened to my aunt... |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
69. k and r |
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derby378 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Apr-22-10 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
70. Reform bill advocates, I hate to say that I told you so... |
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Snazzy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 02:56 AM Response to Original message |
72. Wellpoint got to Reuters already-article truncated severely |
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Snazzy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 03:22 AM Response to Reply #72 |
73. 3230 less words. Words in this article about 1PM EDT: 4,212 --and at about 4AM: 982 |
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Snazzy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 06:27 AM Response to Reply #72 |
76. What other company? Testimony of Robin Beaton before Energy and Commerce |
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Snazzy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 06:51 AM Response to Reply #76 |
78. hmm, I may be wrong |
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Phoebe Loosinhouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
75. Rescission would not exist if your application for insurance consisted of 2 lines: |
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Solly Mack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 06:49 AM Response to Original message |
77. K&R |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Apr-23-10 10:33 AM Response to Original message |
81. Health Insurance is a SCAM. Could it be any clearer? |
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