Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 08/27/2009 - YouTube
Republican Senator Tom Coburn Tells Women Crying About Her Health Care Coverage At Town Hall: "Government Is Not The Answer" - 08/24/09
Sort by The Huffington Post (Free subscription) - 08/27/2009
As the battle heats up to pass meaningful health care reform with a robust public option, a video has emerged that captures the raw emotions...
Sort by Think Progress (Free subscription) - 08/25/2009
Yesterday CNN’s Rick Sanchez aired a segment from a health care town hall where a weeping constituent explained to Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) that her husband’s health insurer refuses to cover his treatment for a traumatic brain injury. As the woman continued to cry, Coburn told her that his office would try to assist her [...]
Sort by Daily Kos (Free subscription) - 08/26/2009
Michelle Bachmann : Bachmann repeated the myth, adopted early by Sarah Palin, that the health-care plans being debated in Congress would set up "death panels" to determine which old folks are entitled to health care. "Thank God that Sarah Palin said that," she told the callers. "These are true.".... She also suggested that it might be some kind of religious destiny that hardy souls such as herself...
Sort by Crooks and Liars (Free subscription) - 09/24/2009
DOWNLOADS: (64) PLAYS: (344) (h/t Heather) Do you want to know how lost in space conservatives are during this health care debate? Watch Eric Cantor, the golden boy of the conservatives, make a complete fool of himself. When their goal is to just block everything, lies, dodges and sick thoughts cascade out of their mouths and into the atmosphere. First he says health-care reform is so time-consuming...
Sort by Hullabaloo (Free subscription) - 08/26/2009
Neighbors by digby You may have already seen this, but it's so depressing that it needs to be documented again. Senator Tom Coburn, a doctor , tells one of his constituents whose disabled husband was discharged from a nursing home and told "you're on your own," that the answer to her problem is that people need to help out their neighbors. Seriously. Americans refuse to pay an extra penny in taxes...
Sort by Open Left (Free subscription) - 08/28/2009
(This is the latest in a series as part of Brave New Films' Sick For Profit campaign. Follow us on Facebook .) This week, the insurance industry let a bit of their guard down, as they ramped up their efforts to attack anything meaningful in health care reform. As the Los Angeles Times reported that negotiations in the Senate Finance Committee were turning the bill into a "bonanza" for insurers, the...
Sort by Pam's House Blend (Free subscription) - 08/25/2009
Then what is, Senator? WOMAN: "Senator Coburn, we need help (crying) my husband has traumatic brain injury, and his health insurance would not cover him to even drink, (Crying) and, what I need to know is are you gonna help him, where he could eat and drink, we left the Nursing Home and they told us we're on our own. He left with a feeding tube, I've been working with him but I'm not a speech pathologist,...
Sort by American Power (Free subscription) - 08/26/2009
Look, no one wants to learn of heartbreak stories of real people struggling with insurance bureaucracies, but trying to make Senator Tom Coburn, who is a family physician, into a heartless abomination of anti-ObamaCare obstructionism isn't going to do the trick. Here's this woman at Coburn's townhall yesterday. She says her insurance company's leaving her husband out in the cold: "We left the nursing...
Sort by Joe. My. God. (Free subscription) - 08/24/2009
Wingnut Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) tells a woman that she shouldn't expect help from the government just because her husband has a traumatic brain injury. "The idea that the government is a solution to our problems in inaccurate." Subscribe to Joe.My.God.
Sort by The Political Carnival (Free subscription) - 08/24/2009
By GottaLaff Tom Coburn: Compassionate Conservative: Rick Sanchez: "He just told her to come and see him. Isn't he the government? By the way, after helping her, what will he do about the other 46,999,000 Americans who don't have insurance...?" Thank you Rick Sanchez.
Sort by the albany project (Free subscription) - 08/28/2009
We have heard from the people who don't need health care reform over and over again. They have dominated the scene at town hall meetings and drown out those who really should be heard. In the video below, a woman who is need of health care reform speaks at a town hall meeting hosted by Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK). Coburn, who is known for his anti-government sentiments (while being a member of government,...
Sort by Israelated (Free subscription) - 08/29/2009
Cross-posted by Gary Fousefousesquawk Having lived in Thailand in the late 1970s, when the military was essentially in charge, I saw first-hand how it works when the news media is controlled by the government. The newspaper we read was the Bangkok Post, one of three English-language dailies in Bangkok. Sufice to say, the did not put out much, if any, criticism of whoever was in power. In one year,...
Sort by Dependable Renegade (Free subscription) - 08/25/2009
Senator Coburn needs to be reminded that if the government isn't the solution, he should get another job.
Sort by Jesus' General (Free subscription) - 08/27/2009
First off, to be fair, Sen. Coburn isn’t the government. He’s one of George H.W. Bush’s “Thousand Points of Light.”Secondly … traumatic brain injury is known as the “signature injury” of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Which means the government doesn’t give a flying fuck about you or your fucking traumatic brain injury, okay? So, suck it up.All that the good and kind senator from Oklahoma is suggesting...
Sort by D-Day (Free subscription) - 08/27/2009
Quietly, almost imperceptibly, the voices of those giving testimony to the essential immorality of the broken health care system have become prominent, and the desires of the defenders of the status quo exposed. Witness the changing tenor of town hall meetings, which changed from meeting spaces for teabaggers and Larouchies to venues for powerful expression . See this video of a woman desperate for...
