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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,103 posts)
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 01:27 PM Oct 2013

G.O.P. Unveils Own Health-Care Web Site

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Saying that “the American people are fed up with a disastrous Web site that doesn’t work and never will,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) and a phalanx of congressional Republicans today unveiled their own health-care Web site, EmergencyRoom.gov.

“At EmergencyRoom.gov, every American can access the one tried-and-true health-care system that has worked in this country for decades,” he said.


While Healthcare.gov has frustrated many users with its difficult-to-navigate design, Rep. Cantor said that at EmergencyRoom.gov, “Health care is just three easy steps away. One: enter your zip code. Two: see the list of emergency rooms. Three: get to the nearest one before you die.”

The Virginia Republican wasted no time touting the cost savings of EmergencyRoom.gov, comparing it favorably with the notoriously expensive Obamacare site: “Unlike Healthcare.gov, which private contractors built at a cost running into the hundreds of millions, EmergencyRoom.gov was built for nine hundred dollars by my intern Josh.”

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/10/gop-unveils-own-health-care-web-site-emergencyroomgov.html?utm_source=tny&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=borowitz&mbid=nl_Borowitz%20(191)

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G.O.P. Unveils Own Health-Care Web Site (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2013 OP
remember when onethatcares Oct 2013 #1
GOPDon'tCare lastlib Oct 2013 #7
Brilliant!! Cali_Democrat Oct 2013 #2
Andy Borowitz is in good form Gothmog Oct 2013 #3
Thanks for this. Sometimes it feels so good to just laugh. Th1onein Oct 2013 #4
Cantor and his ilk.... chillfactor Oct 2013 #5
Andy Borowitz picked up the tab on this one Brother Buzz Oct 2013 #6
"Tried and true?" "Worked for decades?" DissidentVoice Oct 2013 #8
LOL Morons! Roy Rolling Oct 2013 #9
The site is down SlipperySlope Nov 2013 #10
love andy spanone Nov 2013 #11

onethatcares

(16,178 posts)
1. remember when
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 01:32 PM
Oct 2013

the boner showed the large empty book of what the puke healthcare law was?

they never got past that stage, evah.

chillfactor

(7,578 posts)
5. Cantor and his ilk....
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 02:21 PM
Oct 2013

have no idea of either the cost or wait times in an emergency room....their idea of reality is so off the wall it would be laughable if it were not downright disgusting

by the way..did we taxpayers pay for the costs associated with this "website?"

Roy Rolling

(6,925 posts)
9. LOL Morons!
Thu Oct 31, 2013, 04:12 PM
Oct 2013

Just went to emergencyroom.gov and the website is down.

Bring Intern Josh in front of a Congressional committee....

SlipperySlope

(2,751 posts)
10. The site is down
Fri Nov 1, 2013, 01:29 PM
Nov 2013

The Republicans seem to be pretty bad at running a website. Unlike the official one, EmergencyRoom.gov doesn't even show an initial screen.

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