Michael Moore: Funny watching the Republicans refusing to applaud the fact..........

[ErikJ]

Michael Moore ?@MMFlint 1h
Funny watching the Republicans refusing to applaud the fact the insurance companies can no longer deny ANYONE because of a pre-existing cond
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[Rosa Luxemburg]

1. Republcans love health insurance companies

[Fantastic Anarchist]

28. And under the ACA, so does Obama. n/t

[Fridays Child]

2. Sometimes, Congress is like a magic window.

It exposes mangled souls.

[lonestarnot]

3. I don't find anything about them funny Michael Moore. I hate them.

[MurrayDelph]

8. I don't think he meant

"funny" as in "ha ha!"

I think he meant funny as in "fucking son of a bitch!"

[lonestarnot]

13. Michael Moore is too gentle for that language. He is a gentle giant. I love him. He may have been

thinking it.

[libodem]

25. My mom used to put it this way:

Funny peculiar or funny ha ha? Pretty sure Mr Moore means, 'funny' peculiar.

[snort]

32. 'Ripley' funny.

[libodem]

33. Yep

Two headed calf and bearded lady.....peculiar.

[okaawhatever]

4. That is one of the biggest changes in the Republican plan to change Obamacare. Insurance

companies want all the expense of sick people to go to the government. They want sick people to either go to a hospital through emergency care or basically die off. As people who make money off of health insurance they are adamantly opposed to sick people.

[BlueStreak]

6. Socialize the risks. Privatize the profits.

That's the Republican formula.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

7. yep.

I even remember the first time I heard that spelled out, from a friend. It is the perfect description.

[mazzarro]

11. I say rethugs believe in HIINO - Health Insurance In Name Only

Socialize the burden of caring for the sick (via emergence rooms); privatize the profit (via premiums).

[Berlum]

15. + 1

[okaawhatever]

18. Perfect description. I think i'll be borrowing it in the near future. nt

[riqster]

23. HIINO FTW!

[kwolf68]

19. That's the pure corporate model

It's like slave labor or environmental degradation. Those costs should be born by the consumer (as a free-market thinker would suggest), however, those costs are passed onto society and the robber barons can maximize their profits despite products being sold at below market value.

The Republican machine is so corrupt and awash in greed that they eschew actual market principles, because those market principles actually are COUNTER to the rush for unbridled profits.

[BadgerKid]

12. "They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."

http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/bushismvideos/youtube/bushharmamerica.htm

[BlueStreak]

16. Can anybody remember when George HW Bush read the internal notes

off his teleprompter as if they were part of the speech he was supposed to be delivering?

I can't seem to find the video of that, but as I recall, he was in the middle of a speech and then strangely went with:

"Message"

"Optimism"

(or something like that)

and never seemed to realize he was supposed to be riffing on that point.

[VWolf]

26. You mean like this?

(Skip to 1:45)

[BlueStreak]

30. Yes, it was EXACTLY like that

I'm thinking he might have been reading from a script rather than a teleprompter. It might not have had ANY speech. His notes might have been nothing but talking points, but he read it out literally in that obnoxious Bushy swagger.

Does anybody have a video of that speech?

[cui bono]

31. Omg... I don't remember that one! Would love to see it. n/t

[Cha]

5. KICK!

[red dog 1]

9. K&R....Thanks for posting

I'm a huge fan of Michael Moore.....I've seen all his movies & I like his second movie best, ..
the one he made after "Roger and Me " called ."The Big One".made by a BBC crew following him around on a cross country book tour...it's hilarious!

He can, when he wants to, be a very funny speaker.........near the end of "The Big One", he's speaking to a large crowd, and a woman shouts out..."You should run for President..it would send a message"...
And Michael Moore replies: "What Message?...Eat out more often?"

[ErikJ]

24. HAHA! I'll have to watch that one!

My favorite is "Sicko" which was absolutely brilliant.

[Kablooie]

10. It makes sense though.

Why would anyone have a pre existing condition anyway?
Because God is punishing them.
We should not go against God's will so we shouldn't treat their illness.

[CANDO]

14. By the way...

What's MM been up to lately? Seems he's been rather out of sight for some time. I wonder if he's been working on something, another movie maybe?

[LittleGirl]

21. I follow him and he is working on a movie

now. He is very hush hush about it.

[spanone]

17. they want the ins. co's lobbyists to see their money at work....

[PatSeg]

20. Someone should tell them

that assholery is a pre-existing condition, but they already have health coverage for life.

[DallasNE]

22. The Odd Part Is That The Official GOP Response

Highlighted a Down's son and breast cancer survivor that have insurance coverage. Not said is that the ACA is the sole reason those pre-existing conditions are now covered. She applauded the coverage without crediting the reason that coverage now exists.

[GoCubsGo]

27. And, it's this sort of thing...

...that makes me disagree with those say the president didn't call out the republicans forcefully enough. He didn't need to. Watching them sit on their hands and squirm every time the President Obama brought up a populist issue spoke far more about them than any calling out he could have done.

[marias23]

29. Goeorge Bush: "Why do they hate us so much?"

It seems Republicans don't care if people to suffer. Perhaps they think they will be rich someday and it will not be a problem for them.

[Rex]

34. Control freaks, sadly we have some of those around here too.

nt.

[Dollysmom]

35. Not funny, Michael

A sad fact. There's no money insuring sick people. But you know that