"60 Minutes" sizzled tonight

[Iwillnevergiveup]

The segment on the biggest public hospital in Las Vegas having to close down services to cancer patients in need of chemo and radiation was heartbreaking. All due to lack of funds. As was the tale of the Iranian student who was arrested at a demonstration and tortured for years.

Afterward, I thought "Well, people not getting life-saving medical treatment is torture American style."

[liberalmike27]

1. Yea it Sucks

Think about it. We're spending 500 Billion to a Trillion a year for our "attack" budget, and we can't afford to help people who are sick. So, we're spending our money to kill foreigners, in foreign lands, keep a thousand bases and "lilly-pads" all over the globe, and we're not spending money on helping folks here at home.

I feel sorry for folks in Iran (as the other story talked about) but there are more people in Iran than the government, and if they want to make it better, they will have to do it themselves. Sadly, we are not even a country that can set the example anymore, with torture, and attacking other countries for their resources, and allowing sick folks to die. Some morals, huh?

[Jkid]

3. The real reason why we can't afford to help people who are sick...

is because our priorities are fucked up. That's why we are more concentrated on the war in Iraq than on social welfare.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

2. Video up

at www.60minutes.com

[Iwillnevergiveup]

4. Next week I hope there's a follow up

on the doctor who's treating outpatient cancer victims on his own dime. May the donations pour in!

[girl gone mad]

5. It was heartbreaking.

Both the generous doctor and Ms. Dolly Parton give me hope for humanity, though.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

6. Yes, Dolly Parton

has certainly done her part for her community.

[XOKCowboy]

7. She's a genuine person.

Plus a true legend with a wonderful voice. I've been a fan for a long time.

[HelenWheels]

8. I love Dolly

a LOT but she has to quit getting plastic surgery. Her face didn't move. She was such a beauty and the surgery did not preserve it.

[bdamomma]

10. she looks good compared to Joan Rivers!!

[Toucano]

12. True, but Shrek looks good compared to Joan Rivers. n-t

[bdamomma]

9. that was terrible about those cancer patients, this is what bush and cheney

brought to the American people, closing treatment areas for oncology patients that is so bad, they are literally killing the Middle Class.

[bvar22]

11. Well, its a tough choice.

Spend $Trillions of dollars to save a handful of well connected Wall Street Billionaire contributors,

OR

Health Care for the American People.

Damn these decisions.

[Cleita]

13. Obama and his Secretary of Health and Human Services better sit up and

start taking notice. People should not be sentenced to death because they fall sick and their is therapy out there for a cure.