Woman gets 47 pound tumor removed thanks to.... Obamacare.
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« on: June 13, 2014, 12:40:06 PM »

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/12/50-pound-tumor-marcey-dicaro_n_5486945.html

In 2011, DiCaro noticed that her belly was getting bigger and she felt some transient pain, the hospital said. She had a scan In March 2012 that revealed a tumor but she lacked health insurance.

The hospital canceled surgery slated for 2013 because her insurance company would only pay for a small portion of the full costs, DiCaro said.

The hospital said DiCaro was able to get insurance that would cover pre-existing conditions this year because of a provision in the 2010 Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform law. She underwent surgery on April 17.


That tumor... in a sense, is a personification of the problem that Obamacare was intended to fix. I hope they save it.
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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2014, 12:52:43 PM »

47 lbs of innocent life aborted thanks to Obamacare
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2014, 12:54:17 PM »

Tumors.  So that's the new euphemism godless heathen librul Commie socialist androphobic Femi-Nazis  are using to describe unborn children these days?
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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2014, 01:09:25 PM »

Excellent news.
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« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2014, 01:13:32 PM »

F^*king socialist.
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« Reply #5 on: June 13, 2014, 01:17:44 PM »

Obviously one of the 47% who never would have voted for Romney.
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« Reply #6 on: June 13, 2014, 02:01:21 PM »

Prior to Obamacare, she would have been left to die so doctors could continue experimenting on septuagenarians. Today, thanks to the power of Obamacare, doctors are still using Medicare funds to experiment on septuagenarians, AND we are paying higher taxes and borrowing money to pay for this woman.

The Democratic Party has serious intellectual firepower on their side of the aisle. It's a wonder the Republican Party still exists.
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« Reply #7 on: June 13, 2014, 04:20:17 PM »

Prior to Obamacare, she would have been left to die so doctors could continue experimenting on septuagenarians. Today, thanks to the power of Obamacare, doctors are still using Medicare funds to experiment on septuagenarians, AND we are paying higher taxes and borrowing money to pay for this woman.

The Democratic Party has serious intellectual firepower on their side of the aisle. It's a wonder the Republican Party still exists.

Funny, my taxes didn't go up as a result of Obamacare -- they actually went down thanks to the subsidy. Unless you personally make over $200K a year or like to go tanning, your taxes didn't change either.
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« Reply #8 on: June 13, 2014, 05:47:16 PM »

Prior to Obamacare, she would have been left to die so doctors could continue experimenting on septuagenarians. Today, thanks to the power of Obamacare, doctors are still using Medicare funds to experiment on septuagenarians, AND we are paying higher taxes and borrowing money to pay for this woman.

The Democratic Party has serious intellectual firepower on their side of the aisle. It's a wonder the Republican Party still exists.

Huh

I don't mind paying taxes to prevent Americans from needlessly dying.
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« Reply #9 on: June 13, 2014, 06:03:42 PM »

47 pounds? Must be due to the 47% who voted for Romney after his 47% comment. Tongue
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« Reply #10 on: June 13, 2014, 06:06:55 PM »

47 pounds? Must be due to the 47% who voted for Romney after his 47% comment. Tongue

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« Reply #11 on: June 13, 2014, 06:24:17 PM »

Funny, my taxes didn't go up as a result of Obamacare -- they actually went down thanks to the subsidy. Unless you personally make over $200K a year or like to go tanning, your taxes didn't change either.

You've obviously not looked at the full Obamacare tax list, and you've also forgotten that the individual mandate is a new tax, as argued successfully during the Supreme Court procedings. You're being given a subsidy to trick you into paying a new healthcare tax to private insurance companies in your state.

ACA doesn't fix the cost problem, either. We're spending time and money to push the problem under the bed. We hope the next time we look under the bed, the mess will be gone, picked up by responsible politicians at the state level and conscientious executives and consumers in the private sector.
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« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2014, 06:31:05 PM »

Huh

I don't mind paying taxes to prevent Americans from needlessly dying.

Please tell me you are kidding. Democrats are supposed to be the only people dumb enough to believe that 16% of GDP isn't enough to get the healthcare bills paid.
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« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2014, 06:35:04 PM »

Huh

I don't mind paying taxes to prevent Americans from needlessly dying.

Please tell me you are kidding. Democrats are supposed to be the only people dumb enough to believe that 16% of GDP isn't enough to get the healthcare bills paid.
Translation: this woman dying wouldn't affect me or mine.
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« Reply #14 on: June 13, 2014, 06:35:49 PM »

The reason the US doesn't have universal healthcare is because you spend all your money on the military. And most Republicans still think you don't spend enough money on the military.
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« Reply #15 on: June 13, 2014, 06:38:25 PM »

AggregateDemand: "I REFUSE TO PAY HIGHER TAXES BECAUSE DEMOCRATS ARE MORONS AND THIS WOMAN DOESN'T DESERVE THIS SURGERY!"
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« Reply #16 on: June 13, 2014, 07:33:24 PM »

The reason the US doesn't have universal healthcare is because you spend all your money on the military. And most Republicans still think you don't spend enough money on the military.

You haven't ever looked at a US budget, have you? Military spending has been cut by more than 50% since 1970. Furthermore, our per capita public healthcare spending is 3rd or 4th highest in the world depending on PPP or %GDP basis. Only Norway, Netherlands, and Luxembourg spend more money per capita.

This is the US. We do not lack money. We lack competent liberals and educated voters.
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« Reply #17 on: June 13, 2014, 07:36:00 PM »


Making it easier for you guys.
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« Reply #18 on: June 13, 2014, 07:48:14 PM »


Don't be too eager to reinforce the stereotype of the ignorant lib Cheesy
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« Reply #19 on: June 13, 2014, 08:02:58 PM »

Huh

I don't mind paying taxes to prevent Americans from needlessly dying.

Please tell me you are kidding. Democrats are supposed to be the only people dumb enough to believe that 16% of GDP isn't enough to get the healthcare bills paid.

Actually its precisely because our healthcare system is largely privatized that we pay so much in terms of percentage of GDP. All major countries that have UHC pay far less in terms of percentage of GDP.
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« Reply #20 on: June 13, 2014, 08:03:25 PM »

Prior to Obamacare, she would have been left to die so doctors could continue experimenting on septuagenarians. Today, thanks to the power of Obamacare, doctors are still using Medicare funds to experiment on septuagenarians, AND we are paying higher taxes and borrowing money to pay for this woman.

The Democratic Party has serious intellectual firepower on their side of the aisle. It's a wonder the Republican Party still exists.

Huh

I don't mind paying taxes to prevent Americans from needlessly dying.

Congratulations, that means you are a Democrat.
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« Reply #21 on: June 13, 2014, 08:10:06 PM »

Huh

I don't mind paying taxes to prevent Americans from needlessly dying.

Please tell me you are kidding. Democrats are supposed to be the only people dumb enough to believe that 16% of GDP isn't enough to get the healthcare bills paid.

What do you recommend? Repealing the ban of discriminating on grounds of pre-existing conditions?
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« Reply #22 on: June 13, 2014, 10:02:31 PM »

Actually its precisely because our healthcare system is largely privatized that we pay so much in terms of percentage of GDP. All major countries that have UHC pay far less in terms of percentage of GDP.

Actually, private care isn't the reason. About 45%-50% of US healthcare spending is public. If anything, private insurance rates are inflated by government inefficiency, namely below-market reimbursement for Medicare and the double dipping of Medicaid by senior citizens, which creates more lower-middle class uninsured. The unpaid portion of the bills generated by the uninsured and the elderly are dumped onto patients with private insurance or taxpayers. Rising private insurance rates create more uninsured. This is the death spiral we are trying to reverse.

The obvious way to beat the death spiral is to spend more on lower-middle class insurance. Medicaid expansion is the Democrat proposal, HSAs and refundable tax credits are the Republican pitch. How do you pay for it? You cut pork. Democrats wanted to cut $500B (10 yrs) from Medicare with oversight panels to curtail expensive surgical procedures and treatments that have extraordinary hospice discharge rates. Republicans are not keen to use rationing for senior care, since seniors rarely have private sector alternatives, so Pubs did their usual populist pandering by proposing a few Medicare half-measures, while trying to cut pork out of social security with the Ryan Plan.

Unsurprisingly, the final ACA bill covered new people without paying for it. Republicans were enraged, and they managed to convince the public that ACA was a bad bill. After 2010, Democrats responded by slamming Republicans for proposing to fix public healthcare without a direct plan for dealing with Medicare/Medicaid.

There are two basic truths to the ACA debate: 1. ACA is a terrible bill that continues the trend of spending too much and accomplishing too little 2. Neoliberals in both parties are limp-wristed ladyboys who can't administrate morally-compromised socialist medicine (Medicaid/Medicare), and some are in such denial that the describe Medicare as a sort of poor-man's NASA for healthcare. Just think of the medical technologies we're developing from the Medicare death experiments O_O Must spend more!!

To celebrate Obamacare is to "embrace the suck"
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« Reply #23 on: June 13, 2014, 11:10:12 PM »

It's like I'm watching a cutting-edge Torie thinktank in action circa 1977.
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« Reply #24 on: June 13, 2014, 11:39:46 PM »

Whenever someone makes a bad argument against Obamacare, let's just reply with this picture:
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