Cancer Patients Die While "New Democrats" Help Bankers Get Billions

[biopowertoday]

She is dead on about this issue.


Jane Hamsher

Founder, FireDogLake.com
Posted March 11, 2009 | 12:56 PM (EST)


Cancer Patients Die While "New Democrats" Help Bankers Get Billions
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21% of Americans scramble to pay medical, drug bills

Denise Prosser, 39, has battled cancer since she was a toddler.

Yet Prosser can't afford her next cancer treatment -- a radioactive therapy that she's supposed to receive once a year -- because she and her husband lost their jobs in December. Without insurance, she has postponed the radiation indefinitely and is taking only half of her asthma medications -- sacrifices that often leave her gasping for air and could allow her cancer to come surging back.



She's dying because she lost her job and she can't pay her medical bills. She didn't steal anything so she could get taxpayer money so she can pay lobbyists to get her more taxpayer money--that's AIG.

Nobody will tell us who the AIG counterparties were, all we know is that they were a bunch of degenerate gamblers who got rich on taxpayer money. Meanwhile Ellen Tauscher is bragging that she and her New Democrat Coalition come from Wall Street, and work as henchmen for bank lobbyists. Of course they are -- the New Democrat's Executive Director, Adam Pase, was a lobbyist for predatory lenders. And bank lobbyists love them back, cooing about how the New Dems will keep Congress from "punishing" banks with new regulation of the financial system.

Because lord knows, that's the real danger here.

But don't think Tauscher and the New Dems are completely cold to people who can't pay for healthcare. Tauscher voted for the bankruptcy bill that made it more difficult for people with bills from catastrophic illness to file for bankruptcy, saying it "encouraged personal responsibility." I'm sure Denise is touched by Tauscher's concern for her moral fiber. And the power of the New Democrats is only growing -- yesterday, Obama proudly identified with them, saying "I'm a New Democrat." .........

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jane-hamsher/cancer-patients-die-while_b_173926.html

edited to add link.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

1. And a lot more would die if we didn't help the banks.

Banks failing = systemic failure = all sorts of companies going out of business = people losing their job = people not affording medicine.

[biopowertoday]

10. as obama said--he can do many things at one time. But that

is not the point of the article (your point is a distractor)

[truedelphi]

12. The system is set to fail anyway - except the way that it is happening means the rich will ahve

Every last dime and nickel of the lower incomed class before it goes totally bust.

There are already discussions in other nations that a switch should be made to some other currency.

Here, "experts" "predict" it won't come to that, just as the same "experts" predicted that the sub prime mortgage platform was basically sound and couldn't go under. With the only thing holding up the dollar being its past history as a global currency of renown, should we lose that staus we are Fini.

[avaistheone1]

17. Bullshit. The banks haven't done anything but help themselves to our taxpayer money.

You are not paying attention to what is going on.

:banghead:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. the national health system should start this week

thanks to Bush and previous presidents people don't have proper healthcare in this country. Why people were against an NHS type system in the 90s I do not know.

[biopowertoday]

15. many, including many

here on du seem to be against it also now. They have acquiesced to whatever plan the WH/Kennedy puts out. There is very very little discussion of single payer here.

[derby378]

3. New Democrat, Old Democrat, Blue Democrat...

Can't the Democrats on Capitol Hill just come together as DEMOCRATS and fix this healthcare crisis, already? :mad:

[biopowertoday]

7. When the WH declares single payer is off the table--I expect

many Dems will protest, and fight back.

[vaberella]

4. Please mail this to the White House and send it to your Senators/Governor/Congressman.

You need to let them know and advocate to them. I've harassed Pataki and Rangel about this and my next move is the Mayor. Governor Patterson is fucking us in NYC so I plan on voting him out.

[biopowertoday]

5. Groups Protest Health Insurance Heavyweights............

Have you seen this?

Forum Name Political Videos
Topic subject Groups Protest Health Insurance Heavyweights
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x282513#282513
282513, Groups Protest Health Insurance Heavyweights
Posted by lame54 on Wed Mar-11-09 04:24 PM

[biopowertoday]

6. Yes, you are right on. I already have.

[biopowertoday]

8. edited to add link to OP

[midnight]

9. I agree. The banks need to live with regulation, and that is that.

We have people's lives on the line and more important details.

[bvar22]

11. Fuck a bunch of "New Dems".

"Centrism"...for those who are proud to be Half Republican.

I'm an OLD Dem.....
A FDR Democrat....
A Wellstonian Democrat!

[Lorien]

16. and a Kucinich Democrat!

the kind that the corporate elite WON'T allow on a Presidential ticket!

[terisan]

13. Problem is Joseph Biden shaped the Bankruptcy bill to allow massive abuses-though he

claims he made it better . Joe is a fast talker but the work he has done as senator from Delaware has contributed massively to hurting the people and helping the Banking Behemoths. He has done it since he was 30 years old, yet he was elevated to the vice-presidency by Obama and Dems, and now is supposed to be Mr. Middle Class.

I am not surprised that Obama would claim to be a New Democrat.

The current leadership of the Democratic Party is highly corporatist.

[Norrin Radd]

14. kr

[tabatha]

18. They were doing so during the Bush years.

How did he help?