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In the discussion thread: Former vice president dick chaney undergoes heart transplant - Update [View all]

Sat Mar 24, 2012, 07:27 PM

jehop61 (317 posts)

32. Isn't it wonderful

that Cheney has such great federal health insurance and it covers such an expensive operation! Now why in the world do the repubs. not want the rest of us to have the same?

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127 replies	Author	Time	Post
Former vice president dick chaney undergoes heart transplant - Update [View all]	Javaman	Mar 2012	OP
Usually they don't give transplants to people in their 70s	mucifer	Mar 2012	#1
Money talks. Or perhaps threats.	kestrel91316	Mar 2012	#5
Probably paid for ...	aggiesal	Mar 2012	#34
When a neighbor was 79 (last year)	Suich	Mar 2012	#10
My dad had a kidney transplant at the age of 48, but due to the anti-rejection	pacalo	Mar 2012	#60
If you are in the 1%, you will get whatever you need	liberal N proud	Mar 2012	#67
now you know where much of the money went	shanti	Mar 2012	#101
I met a number of people at UCSF who had heart transplants after age 70	The Second Stone	Mar 2012	#106
If Dick got a heart, somone had to die for him to get it. n/t	fasttense	Mar 2012	#112
I thought his was replaced with some whirring (non beating)	annabanana	Mar 2012	#2
He was!	freethought	Mar 2012	#26
It's called an LVAD...	3waygeek	Mar 2012	#39
Why is an old alcohol abuser getting a heart? eom	Kolesar	Mar 2012	#57
He has an entire health team that travels with him wherever he goes, just	crunch60	Mar 2012	#100
Since he wasn't born with one, how will they hook it up?	TheCowsCameHome	Mar 2012	#3
No doubt this is a better heart ...	aggiesal	Mar 2012	#22
Should be "implant".	Scuba	Mar 2012	#4
yep!	Pryderi	Mar 2012	#65
Here's a link	cbayer	Mar 2012	#6
Ah, I thought this was an Onion article. Darth was reported to have been suffering greatly.	freshwest	Mar 2012	#7
He has a heart?	Initech	Mar 2012	#8
He does now.	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#47
No. Not really.	Left Coast2020	Mar 2012	#90
Who had to die for this?	surrealAmerican	Mar 2012	#9
Some unfortunate Chinese activist? They sold organs to the highest bidder, didn't donate them.	freshwest	Mar 2012	#63
No, Lynne or Liz just ripped it out of the chest of some poor innocent person....	Pachamama	Mar 2012	#69
I wonder how many younger folks he stepped in front of at age 70	bigtree	Mar 2012	#11
They don't necessarily go by age alone. There are a lot of factors.	totodeinhere	Mar 2012	#85
good info	bigtree	Mar 2012	#108
I would hope that he had to wait his turn on the list just like everyone else	bluestateguy	Mar 2012	#12
Ha. That'll be the day...please...	CTyankee	Mar 2012	#64
So the Wizard of Oz does exist? And he can give a heart	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2012	#13
If you do ever reconsider	dipsydoodle	Mar 2012	#21
A Hammond B3?	aquart	Mar 2012	#29
A Hammond B3	dipsydoodle	Mar 2012	#36
Win	mackattack	Mar 2012	#74
Just saw that at his castle...very cool!	FailureToCommunicate	Mar 2012	#82
A very nice B3 (and bass pedals) with Leslie 122, there is no sound like it!!!	winstars	Mar 2012	#104
The back ground to the joke is	dipsydoodle	Mar 2012	#107
I'm not planning on going anywhere soon.	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2012	#46
LOL - "Wizard of Oz" was trending on Twitter at the same time as "Dick Cheney"	NYC Liberal	Mar 2012	#45
.................	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2012	#48
And the even funnier part is I'm pretty sure it was just coincidental!	NYC Liberal	Mar 2012	#96
The Chimp still needs brain	pstokely	Mar 2012	#111
I got lost on the yellow brick road...duh! nt	Curmudgeoness	Mar 2012	#117
Everybody! Hum along	RufusTFirefly	Mar 2012	#14
Was it a pigs heart?	BootinUp	Mar 2012	#15
Compatibility is very important	Xipe Totec	Mar 2012	#17
Nah, Rush wouldn't sell his. Maybe it was Breitbart's. n/t	TheCowsCameHome	Mar 2012	#25
+ 1000!	El Supremo	Mar 2012	#71
I would like to suggest	OnyxCollie	Mar 2012	#78
I must reconsider my donor card.	rug	Mar 2012	#16
+ 1 n/t	peace13	Mar 2012	#19
I hope he lives long	frogmarch	Mar 2012	#18
'Aide Says Cheney Had Heart Transplant'	elleng	Mar 2012	#20
waste	marshall gaines	Mar 2012	#23
Will they have to drive a stake through his old one? Or bury it as toxic waste?	LongTomH	Mar 2012	#24
Aw, now, you...	freshwest	Mar 2012	#88
If he feels better, maybe he won't be such an asshole. nt	Deep13	Mar 2012	#27
All those years of smoking....	Julian Englis	Mar 2012	#28
Must hurt a lot.	aquart	Mar 2012	#30
not to worry folks, I'm sure his body will reject anything even	ladywnch	Mar 2012	#31
Brava	AngryOldDem	Mar 2012	#37
Isn't it wonderful	jehop61	Mar 2012	#32
So what worthy soul didn't get a heart today? nt	onehandle	Mar 2012	#33
Probably someone like the people Olbermann featured on Countdown during the health care debate.	AngryOldDem	Mar 2012	#42
Maybe the Good Lord wanted to give me	Turbineguy	Mar 2012	#35
This will probably be deleted, but....	Th1onein	Mar 2012	#38
There's still a chance. Go to the light, Dick. Go to the light!	Hassin Bin Sober	Mar 2012	#103
I am somehow reminded...	LeftishBrit	Mar 2012	#40
Cheney had a sphincter transplant and it rejected him...	Snarkoleptic	Mar 2012	#41
One more person dies for cheney	Ohio Joe	Mar 2012	#43
who did he have killed to get it?	notadmblnd	Mar 2012	#44
Travon Martin. NT	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#51
You beat me.	Odin2005	Mar 2012	#97
Change of heart? Naw... (nt)	reACTIONary	Mar 2012	#49
I wonder who they killed to get a match	larkrake	Mar 2012	#50
Travon Martin. NT	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#52
really? Utterly insensitive and out of line IMHO	auntAgonist	Mar 2012	#68
I agree, a 71 year old war crimminal getting a heart is Utterly insensitive and out of line	Devil_Fish	Mar 2012	#122
Palpatine. nt	guitar man	Mar 2012	#53
And so he takes out another loan against humanity. nt	Poll_Blind	Mar 2012	#54
wouldn't it be considered an initial installation rather than a replacement.	olddad56	Mar 2012	#55
I won't share what I am thinking right now!	Rosa Luxemburg	Mar 2012	#56
A human could have used it.	marias23	Mar 2012	#58
Bravo! n/t	rzemanfl	Mar 2012	#80
I wonder if the heart will reject the body? n/t	davepdx	Mar 2012	#59
I couldn't help but wonder too. Hmmm.	Glimmer of Hope	Mar 2012	#84
Isn't Dick President Obama's 8th cousin ?	Grassy Knoll	Mar 2012	#61
Yea something like that. I wonder if Cousin Barack will send him a get well card. n/t	totodeinhere	Mar 2012	#86
Let's hope Obamacare will stop things like this	BamaFanLee	Mar 2012	#94
I saw a science fiction show once where a person got a transplant and then	totodeinhere	Mar 2012	#102
His new heart,	penndragon69	Mar 2012	#62
Well said....	Pachamama	Mar 2012	#70
How can we not make Darth Vader references?	underpants	Mar 2012	#66
>>>	El Supremo	Mar 2012	#72
He must have gone to Oz	mackattack	Mar 2012	#73
Well hopefully he lives long enough to pay for his crimes.	Fearless	Mar 2012	#75
Heart to Heart talk	qbhawk	Mar 2012	#76
That was exactly the plot of John Carpenter's They Live	LongTomH	Mar 2012	#113
My question is was he given special consideration in getting the heart	cstanleytech	Mar 2012	#77
I don't think so. The average waiting time is between six months and three years.	totodeinhere	Mar 2012	#81
Thank you.	cstanleytech	Mar 2012	#121
Breaking News - Heart rejects Cheney	jerseygal	Mar 2012	#79
somewhere there is a dead unicorn	Douglas Carpenter	Mar 2012	#83
But it's family profited handsomely	Canuckistanian	Mar 2012	#89
Maybe He'll live	sorefeet	Mar 2012	#87
It would be ironic	mackattack	Mar 2012	#91
Some sociopath must have recently died...	Thor_MN	Mar 2012	#92
I Don't Want To See Anyone Ill......	queerart	Mar 2012	#93
You are very kind	Marthe48	Mar 2012	#127
the flames of h@ll are licking at your a$$ Dick.....	rppper	Mar 2012	#95
Who did he kill?	avaistheone1	Mar 2012	#98
He should have been living	hyphenate	Mar 2012	#99
So Chandra Levy's heart finally rejected him?	BiggJawn	Mar 2012	#105
Waste of a perfectly good transplant heart	GreydeeThos	Mar 2012	#109
Don't they give federal prisoners health care?	pstokely	Mar 2012	#110
The attitudes expressed on this thread do no credit to DU n/t	SylviaD	Mar 2012	#114
How many other people in their 70's get heart transplants? I'm betting....zero	teewrex	Mar 2012	#115
can i take that bet?	onenote	Mar 2012	#123
Cheney finally gets a heart.	avaistheone1	Mar 2012	#116
Oh, well.	Solly Mack	Mar 2012	#118
miserable piece of shit has "government-run health care"	Doctor_J	Mar 2012	#119
Where did they find one small enough	Spirochete	Mar 2012	#120
How can a person who never had a heart get a transplant?	ohiolover	Mar 2012	#124
if you believe that, I got a bridge in Brooklyn I'd like to sell you.	William769	Mar 2012	#125
Bbwaaa!	ohiolover	Mar 2012	#126

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