Detainee's healthcare "better than many Americans get" - Frist

[Canuckistanian]

http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/politics/article/0,1406,KNS_356_4988286,00.html

By RICHARD POWELSON, [e-mail]
September 13, 2006


WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., said Tuesday his recent trip to the Guantanamo Bay detainee camp showed excellent prison conditions, including "24/7 medical care - better than many Americans" get.
Nevertheless, Frist, a former physician, said that the Senate must authorize military commissions to prosecute the alleged terrorists at Guantanamo in Cuba and elsewhere for "war crimes." He visited the prison with two other senators Sunday to prepare for Senate debate on legislation to legalize the commissions after a U.S. Supreme Court decision in June said they lacked congressional approval.

[Beaverhausen]

1. So pass some national healthcare legislation you dumb shit!

could he be any more dense?

[flamin lib]

3. Ya' beat me to that one . . . nt

[Virginia Dare]

2. Excellent endorsement Dr. Frist...

Guantanamo prison detainees get better health care than most Americans...do you hear yourself talking numbnuts?

Why is this man still aloud to practice medicine? He's obviously criminally insane.

[Chipper Chat]

5. Hello, is this doctor Frist?

Sir, I can no longer afford lemon-baked chicken and two kinds of fruit like the Gitmo prisoners get and you trumpet. Can you help me?

[BattyDem]

4. Um ... and he's actually PROUD of that???

Only a Republican would brag about Americans having crappy healthcare! :eyes:

[NorCalDem]

6. Frist later added...

"It's pretty amazing really. After a detainee is senselessly beaten or has electrodes removed from their testicles, they immediately recieve medical attention. It makes me proud to be an American."

:sarcasm:

[Nikki Stone 1]

14. What a creepy statement!

Someone should strip his medical license.

[Solly Mack]

7. Am I supposed to be impressed? relieved?

Frist should be tried along with the Bush Regime

[stopbush]

8. Frist's solution is to take away the detainee's care to even things up.

Rather than improving the lot of uninsured Americans.

Here's my solution:

1. Pay Congressmen no more than the minimum wage
2. Allow every American access to the same health care Congressmen get.

[Beaverhausen]

9. I like your ideas

[grytpype]

10. Sad but true.

If you count the Americans who can't afford any health care at all.

Those who have insurance are doing a bit better than the detainees, because their doctors are not trying to figure out how to torture them more effectively.

So I would put the detainee's health care somewhere in the middle.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. ..and who can we thank for that? nt

[FSogol]

12. He's right. My health care plan does not cover Waterboarding. n/t

[Canuckistanian]

16. LOL

And the vicious dogs are a co-pay....

:rofl:

[NC_Nurse]

13. Hahahaha!

Good one, asshole!
What a dick he is, a shame to the medical profession.

[Disturbed]

15. Frist is an asshole and he commited Fraud

regarding his Medical License. His license may be revoked, as it should be. It is amazing that he is actually a Heart Surgon, which one would presume requires a high IQ and skill, yet as a Senator he comes off as such a dumbass.

Health Care in the US is in dire trouble. As an MD, one would think that he would be concerned about America's problem with 43 Million being without any Medical Insurance, instead of making such a lame statement about GITMO Detainees.