Heartbreaking Story Now on 60 Minutes:

[ThatsMyBarack]

In Nevada, an outpatient cancer center is closing due to lack of funds, leaving many needy patients out in the cold. :cry:

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. airs in 3 hours here. Thanks for the heads up.

[DemReadingDU]

2. Watching. sad

[madokie]

3. As the lady just now said its devastating

and she is dying of breast cancer. This is all wrong what is going on in America concerning our healthcare. We need to take up the pitchforks and axes, now.

[DemReadingDU]

7. This is so wrong. What's wrong with this country?

and I am afraid with the economy tanking and more people losing jobs and losing health insurance, more people will not get taken care of.

[madokie]

13. I often wonder how people who are the responsible for our system

live with themselves, I know I couldn't. Sometimes it seems like people are encouraged to give up and to just be poor because then they can get some help. I trully feel and believe that our President can and will help us to right these many wrongs, it'll just take some time to do. Our job is to keep that faith in him because if we do that then we are giving him the support he mostly needs.

[cabluedem]

22. No job, no healthcare. Millions of us will die early deaths. nt

[Delphinus]

26. Insurance should NOT

be tied to jobs. This is what is happening daily (hourly) and those who go on unemployment cannot afford COBRA, even with the stimulus package's help.

HR 676 - Medicare for All.

[DemReadingDU]

29. Agreed

Healthcare in this country is about to turn into a nightmare as more people lose their jobs and health insurance. Uninsured sick people will get sicker, maybe die too young. This puts burdens on caregivers. Then they get sick. We will become a nation of unhealthy sick people.
Medicare for All.

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[malaise]

5. Shocking is the only word

How does this happen in 'the greatest country in the world'.
And it's the middle class suffering the most - people who worked all their lives. :cry: :cry:

[ThatsMyBarack]

6. If patients can't pay their bills,....

Will they wind up in one of Dick Cheney's private prisons (if they don't die first)? :mad:

That's what is known as "body attachments"!

[cabluedem]

23. Cant pay your medical bills? They will start harvesting organs until its paid. nt

[dem629]

8. That one doctor treating people for free or for whatever they can afford (even 5 bucks)....

is a true hero.

[Delphinus]

27. Yes he is.

I am going to read the transcript so I can have his name and tell people of a true American hero.

[annabanana]

9. How did they "finish" this piece?

Did they explain that a viable option is being fought against, tooth and nail, by the private insurance companies? Did they explain why "retail" costs for medication and treatment are so high that they are just a dream for individuals who have no, or inadequate insurance?

This is unacceptable. This cannot stand.

AND THE CORPORATE MEDIA'S HANDS ARE DRIPPING WITH BLOOD

[truedelphi]

17. Corporate media now has plenty of Bankster Dollars to wipe the blood off with

[alarimer]

18. Did they explain that the President is against a public option too?

The guy many of them voted for is willing to let them die than give them health care.

[Pharlo]

20. I don't know if that is a rhetorical question or not, but if you're truly

curious, they ended the piece by saying that the city was looking into cutting a couple more million from this particular medical facility's budget next year.

[malaise]

10. Would be nice if Anderson Cooper interviewed

some of the people tortured by his own government.

[MissDeeds]

11. Good point

I kept thinking this couldn't possibly be happening in the US. Welcome to the new world order.

[dem629]

12. True, but that doesn't lessen the importance of the story they're showing now.

[malaise]

16. It does to me n/t

[PA Democrat]

14. I watched it also. I thought I had heard it all until

that poor woman dying of cancer had her hospital bed taken from her by the medical equipment company.

I guess it is good that the media is starting to cover these stories, but they still will not touch the insurance companies and their role in preventing affordable single payer health care.

[progressoid]

15. I'd like to think that people will connect the dots

But it's going to take a lot more stories from the "media" for this to sink in.

[upi402]

19. with brains the size of dots...

or at least the critical thinking area of their brains, I'm no longer hopeful. Folks are easy to fool. Those in power got theirs and can head out of here with it all. We can undercut each other for crap income and die early for all they care.

[ohtransplant]

21. Rationing

The uncomfortable detail pols don't want to address head on...

This is the method we use to ration health care. Budgets get cut, doors close at medical centers and who's without lifesaving care again?...the working poor - not poor enough for medicaid and not rich enough to pay. I say it's another facet in the war on working Americans - in the name of corporate profits.

People will die for lack of the will to figure out how to provide care for them.

Shame on us as a country.

[moondust]

24. If Republicans were allowed to do away with Medicare

and Medicaid and Social Security as they have wanted to do for decades (so they don't have to pay taxes)--we'd see a lot more of this. And worse. Perhaps people dying in the streets of starvation and unable to afford medication. That's the future Republicans would lead us into if they had their way.

[Delphinus]

25. I watched it and cried.

The man with lung cancer is in hospice. The system killed him. The politicians do not care. His death, and others like him, should be on their consciences.

[Vinca]

28. This was one of the saddest things I've ever seen.

It should be replayed for every member of Congress again and again and again. The poor lady in the bed was so right when she said people assume they will somehow get care, but the reality is they won't be able to find it. I can't believe someone would actually take away her wheelchair and hospital bed. It's terrifying to know that in my current uninsured state, I could end up in that same situation. Actually, a whole lot of insured people could, too. Single payer, universal healthcare now.