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Dick Cheney Would Probably Be Dead W/o Government-Financed Healthcaer

Posted by Shum Preston on December 10, 2007 - 11:54am

One more irony about the healthcare crisis: the politicians in charge of fixing it…are guaranteed healthcare through a system that is not just “single-payer” (in terms of being financed by the government instead of insurance companies), but beyond is actually government-run.

Nurses are running ads today in 10 Iowa newspapers pointing out that this means that Dick Cheney, with his heart trouble, would probably be dead now if he were an ordinary American forced to search for cardiac care in a thicket of mercenary insurers and heartless HMOs.  Cheney gets guaranteed healthcare; we get squat.

See the Cheney Ad in PDF here

We’ll take a look below, also at some recent highlights from the healthcare movement…

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