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Fuct Jup
10-29-2009, 02:40 PM
What the FUCK has this country become? Proud to be a democrat? :hee:
One of the 20 finalists in health care video contest run by Barack Obama’s campaign arm features a mural of an America flag splattered with health care graffiti until it’s covered completely by black paint.
In the video – which is accompanied by the sound of a heart monitor pumping and then flat-lining – words such as “pre-existing conditions,” “homeless” and “death panel” ultimately obliterate the flag, which reappears on screen seconds later with the words “Health Will Bring Our Country Back to Life” on the blue field where the 50 stars usually are.
According to the Organizing for American Web site, the 20 finalists in the “Health Reform Video Challenge” were chosen by a panel of “qualified” Democratic National Committee “employee judges.”
A contestant whose video didn’t make the final-20 cut complains that a video “defacing the flag” won’t do much to help President Barack Obama or the Democrats sell health care reform.
“They should never pick that,” said the contestant, who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “It makes the Democrats look really, really bad.”
A spokesman for Organizing for America said the group was not prepared to provide immediate comment on the video, which, according to the OFA Web site, was produced by Daniel Lahoda and Saber.
According to the OFA Web site, the 20 finalists will be judged by the public and a panel of experts that includes DNC Chairman Tim Kaine, Obama campaign chief David Plouffe, Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), singer will.i.am and Hollywood stars Rosario Dawson and Dule Hill.
ELVIS
10-29-2009, 03:06 PM
I found no such video...
Meanwhile, over at the RNC's Facebook page........
http://www.mizozo.com/images/item_images/3000/2756_gallery.jpg
http://www.mizozo.com/images/item_images/3000/2755_gallery.jpg
wow.... you would think that Michael Steele, at least, would have a problem with such blatant, "light up the crosses and pass the white sheets" RACISM.
I found no such video...
I doubt you will, either. Just more repuke hysteria (with no links)
Nickdfresh
10-29-2009, 03:30 PM
Email chainspam + no links = D-U-M-P in 5...4..3......
Email chainspam + no links = D-U-M-P in 5...4..3......
Did 4morequeers change his name? :biggrin:
Fuct Jup
10-29-2009, 04:36 PM
I doubt you will, either. Just more repuke hysteria (with no links)
:barf:
Organizing for America | BarackObama.com | Health Reform Video Challenge (http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/hrvcratings?v=b5ZE8uQFM7o)
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/10/29/dnc-uses-flag-desecration-video-raise-funds/
Nickdfresh
10-29-2009, 04:43 PM
Boy, that's some "flag." Paint on a brick wall that sort of resembles a star-less flag and what essentially is time-lapse animation...
Wow, how shocking! Now we can focus on things other than middle class people going bankrupt due to medical bills and the fact that their shitty, overpriced health insurance didn't cover them...
Fuct Jup
10-29-2009, 04:55 PM
Boy, that's some "flag." Paint on a brick wall that sort of resembles a star-less flag and what essentially is time-lapse animation...
Wow, how shocking! Now we can focus on things other than middle class people going bankrupt due to medical bills and the fact that their shitty, overpriced health insurance didn't cover them...
Yes - let us focus. You think that once Big Govt takes over Healthcare its going to be cheaper?:biggrin: This so called Healthcare reform is just a tax.
Insurance 101
Posted 10/13/2009 07:03 PM ET
Health Care: Another day, another lesson. The Baucus plan is the latest scheme to collide with economic reality, proving once again that Congress doesn't understand the system it claims to be reforming.
Max Baucus, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was probably feeling pretty good last week after the Congressional Budget Office came up with a nice deficit number for his slimmed-down plan to overhaul health insurance in America. Then came a teaching moment.
Over the weekend, the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans released a study saying Baucus' plan would hammer the middle class with huge increases in premiums and taxes. The study has stirred things up because it makes a case resting on acknowledged facts. You might call them the iron laws of insurance.
One of these is that the extension of coverage to a higher-risk group will raise costs for everyone, because the average level of risk in the entire pool of insureds goes up. Another is the law of large numbers: The more low-risk people you can get in your pool, the lower you can set your premiums. Another is adverse selection, the inevitable tendency of the highest-risk people wanting your insurance the most, and the lowest-risk wanting it the least.
These laws are, in effect, walls that Congress and the Obama administration keep hitting in their efforts to make health coverage universal without breaking the bank. Their idea is to get as many people as possible — especially the low-risk young and healthy — into the insurance pool as premium payers. In this universal system, adverse selection is no longer a factor, and insurers can cover the high-risk folks along with everyone else.
That's the theory. But when it comes down to drafting laws, there's always an insurmountable hurdle. One is that health care costs so much that people either can't afford the premiums or accept the risk of bankruptcy. Another is that the government's resources are finite and subsidizing premiums in today's waste-ridden system risks bankrupting the country.
Finally, forcing people to buy insurance (through penalties at tax time or whenever) is easier to talk about than enact. The Baucus plan punted on this issue, setting penalties too low to force many reluctant buyers into the insurance pool.
The AHIP study seized on this shortcoming, concluding that the Baucus plan would fail to fill the pool on the low-risk side and would raise premiums by taxing high-end plans. The higher costs and low penalties for going without insurance would encourage more people to postpone coverage until they got sick. Then, the insurers would have to take them, raising premiums for everyone.
Investors.com - Insurance 101 (http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=508936)
Nickdfresh
10-29-2009, 07:23 PM
Yes - let us focus. You think that once Big Govt takes over Healthcare its going to be cheaper?:biggrin: This so called Healthcare reform is just a tax.
Insurance 101
Posted 10/13/2009 07:03 PM ET
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Over the weekend, the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans released a study saying Baucus' plan would hammer the middle class with huge increases in premiums and taxes. The study has stirred things up because it makes a case resting on acknowledged facts. You might call them the iron laws of insurance.
One of these is that the extension of coverage to a higher-risk group will raise costs for everyone....
Investors.com - Insurance 101 (http://www.investors.com/NewsAndAnalysis/Article.aspx?id=508936)
:biggrin:
Yeah, let's fucking focus.
In other news, Josef Goebbels says "Nazis are great!" And, "what Jews?"
As for your "teachable moment," try not learning from self serving biased assholes spewing special interest propaganda and buying off a politician near you...
What is the sales commission Warren Buffet would get on a 2-trillion dollar health insurance policy for the entire country if this shit legislation passes?
sadaist
10-30-2009, 02:34 PM
Boy, that's some "flag." Paint on a brick wall that sort of resembles a star-less flag
Yeah, weird how someone could think they were using the American flag image there. I don't see it at all. :rolleyes:
sadaist
10-30-2009, 02:40 PM
sort of resembles a star-less flag
Obviously Obama had nothing to do with this. Since the "star-less" marks on it are actually the correct number of 50. LOL @ "sort of resembles"....
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa214/sadaist/flag.jpg
Over the weekend, the trade group America's Health Insurance Plans released a study saying Baucus' plan would hammer the middle class with huge increases in premiums and taxes.
Even the insurance criminals hate Baucus' shit bill?
I guess that makes it unanimous. :biggrin:
Nickdfresh
10-30-2009, 04:12 PM
Obviously Obama had nothing to do with this. Since the "star-less" marks on it are actually the correct number of 50. LOL @ "sort of resembles"....
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa214/sadaist/flag.jpg
They look like retarded stars, and it's paint on a brick wall. But again, keep getting all upset over meaningless chickenshit while your gov't is bought and sold...
sadaist
10-30-2009, 05:17 PM
But again, keep getting all upset over meaningless chickenshit while your gov't is bought and sold...
You mean like G. W. Bush choking on a pretzel, or falling off his bike?
:tongue0011:
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