Why I Support John Edwards
Dec 22nd, 2007 at 4:23 pm by Susie
Because he gets it.
NEVADA, IOWA — John Edwards tonight cited the case of a 17-year-old California girl who died after her insurance company refused coverage on a liver transplant to save her life as a call to action to change the current system of healthcare in America.
Nataline Sarkysian died last night at UCLA Medical Center after complications arose from a bone marrow transplant to treat her leukemia. Her insurance provider, CIGNA Healthcare, first denied the potentially lifesaving transplant, but relented after a loud public protest and outrage. By that time, though, Sarkysian passed away before the procedure could be performed.
“Are you telling me that we’re gonna sit at a table and negotiate with those people?” asked a visibly angered Edwards, challenging the health care companies. “We’re gonna take their power away and we’re not gonna have this kind of problem again.”
Edwards also told the audience of about a hundred people at the Score Pavillion in Nevada, Iowa, that it will take a fighter (i.e. him) - and not a negotiator (ii.e. Obama) - to take on large insurance companies like CIGNA.
“Anybody who thinks that we don’t have a fight in front of us is living in Never-Never Land,” he said.
Yea, if the diseases don’t kill you, your health insurance company will. I’m wondering if it’s worth the struggle to pay the high premiums, if I’m not going to get anything back in return. I could sure use that money for other things, instead of making a fat CEO rich.
Memo to John Edwards:
You have a big problem, sir. The National Enquirer is not backing down on the story about your recent adultry. As Dick Morris, former Clinton buddy, found out from “THE STAR” tabloid, when the tabloids don’t back down then only two things could be true.
Either, the National Enquirer is being totally fooled by a completely believable carload of factual-appearling evidence such as emails, witness statements, pictures, and other court-worthy stuff, OR, the National Enquirer is absolutely knowingly slandering you, Mr. Lawyer, and the now-pregnant former coke head, your supposed girlfriend.
So, if this story by the Enquirer is just a big lie, then WHERE IS THE SLANDER LAWSUIT? Right, I guess the last question is the guts of the matter.
You need to go peddle your bile somewhere else, because whatever happened (if it happened at all) is between John Edwards and his wife. Period. As far as I know, George Bush never cheated on his wife - and look where that got us.
I don’t agree with John Edwards on every issue but he is the only major Presidential contender who isn’t bought and paid for by Wall Street. That alone is sufficient reason to vote for him.
Excuse me, but who the hell gets their political news from the National Enquirer?? My 90 year old mother reads it, and she doesn’t believe half the stuff in it either. And what does this have to do with health care anyway?? Have you been drinking??