Countdown: Sen. Whitehouse on Medical Bankruptcy - 'The Human Cost vs. the Propaganda'

[Hissyspit]

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MSNBC Countdown w/ KEITH OLBERMANN - 20 October 2009: Interview w/ Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse. Footage of Judiciary Subcommittee hearing on Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act shows the Burns family who went bankrupt treating their infant son who died of cystic fybrosis, and Elizabeth Edwards.

[debbierlus]

1. ALL the Medical Bankruptcy Act even does make the process easier & faster

And, while this legislation may pass, it is utterly and totally pathetic that ALL this legislation is doig is making families face their ruin, a faster and smoother bueracratic process.

A Medical Bankruptcy Fairness Act would be BAILOUTS to every American who lost their home or livelihood due to the expense of our criminal profiteering corporate leech insurance companies (and big pharm, etc). ALL OF THE BAILOUT MONEY should have gone to bailing out the American people instead of feeding the very system that created this total fucking mess in the first place.

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2. credit counseling "demeaning and demoralizing" Anyone with a heart will hear those words and care.

Yet, in a DU thread, this is what homeless people are being put through, and it is being defended angrily.

[rtassi]

3. You seem surprised ... I'm not certain why, just because registered democrats posts on the DU

that there is the assumption of any more heart ... or caring for the suffering among us!

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5. Sadly, I've learned that the hard way. And my cynicism and anger get more ugly words.

BUT, come November, they are all demanding that everyone vote for their party..... nevermind that the rest of the time they have no use or concern for us.

Makes LOADS of sense, eh?

[Overseas]

4. K&R. I love Senator Whitehouse !! //nt