Comments on: Witnesses have zero luck slipping fishy math past Franken

By: J Foster

J Foster — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:22:49 +0000

Sorry. I did it again. It was political satire. I’m sure Mr. Franken can appreciate that. Let me share this peace offering.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704130904574644230678102274.html?mod=WSJ_Opinion_LEFTTopOpinion

By: J Foster

J Foster — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:11:42 +0000

My last post was mean and uncalled for. Wishing cancer on anybody is wrong. My apologies. Mr. Franken, I hope the Swiss healthcare system is able to remove your leftist nut, I mean, left nut, before it spreads to any other part of your body…except, maybe a non-fatal form that erodes your larynx.

By: J Foster

J Foster — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:02:28 +0000

I guarantee that if Franken got cancer, he wouldn’t run off to any of his beloved socialist paradises to get on a waiting list for treatment. I’ll stop short of wishing the Big C on Franken just to prove my point, but that’s the difference between a person like Franken and myself. He puts on his “humanist” hat when it sounds cool at Manhattan cocktail parties, I wear mine on a daily basis, in all situations… You know what, the hell with that. I hope this guy gets a nasty cluster of malignancy on his left nut (oh, the irony), and it eats it’s way straight through his rectum to his colon. The good news is, Franken will be able to conveniently spew his angry liberal bile directly into a colostomy bag for easy disposal. Good article, Lober.

By: L Lober

L Lober — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 19:17:40 +0000

Okay Senator Smalley from MN.

http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/04/cancer-survival-health-care-reform-opinions-contributors-diana-furchtgott-roth.html

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:10:24 +0000

Performance like this makes me all the more glad we dumped that empty suit/head Coleman.

Speaking of Klobuchar, I sent her a letter 3 months ago expressing my concern over the awesome inefficiencies of the for-profit health insurance companies, and all the avoidable bankruptcies and deaths they cause. In her reply letter she didn’t even mention a public option.

The numbers that I’ve seen in favor of a universal single-payer system blow the “free market” option out of the water in terms of cost savings, which is what virtually every other OECD country has discovered as well. The market can fail, and it does so spectacularly and in a variety of ways in the medical industry. I’d like to think Klobuchar is aware of this.

I therefore became curious as to what Klobuchar’s connection was with the health insurance lobby. According to Open Secrets:
http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=2010&cid=N00027500&type=I&mem=

Klobuchar has received $27,400 from UnitedHealth Group–that is, $27,400 not paid out in covering patient medical bills.

I assume Klobuchar must know that UnitedHealth Group made $4.8 billion in profits last year. How many medical bankruptcies of Minnesota and US citizens does that translate into?

Stephen Hemsley, its rapacious CEO, pulled down $13.2 million in 2007. How many medical bankruptcies does Hemsley require to afford his lifestyle? What has he added to the delivery of health care in the US? In regard to the latter question–objectively nothing is the answer.

Sen. Klobuchar, did you hear the case of the two year old girl denied coverage by UnitedHealth?
http://www.startribune.com/business/65372502.html

UnitedHealth later reversed this bloody decision, but only under the spotlight of media attention and public outrage. What other unethical conduct does this company get away with when the media isn’t looking?

Tons, it turns out.

Were you aware of the 2007 RICO lawsuit against UnitedHealth?

“United Health Group, its United HealthCare and Oxford subsidiaries and several United and Oxford executives,as well as former United CEO William Maguire are accused of violating the U.S.Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) in a case filed this morning with the U.S. District Court. Jamaica Hospital Medical Center and Flushing Hospital Medical Center are alleging that these health care insurance firms of fraud on a “national level.”"

What about the options scandal that led to the former CEO William McGuire stepping down from the company? Surely you know that in 2005 he nabbed over $124 million in compensation? What about the reported $1.1 billion he received when leaving the company?

(It’s estimated that 1 out of every $700 the public spent on UnitedHealth premiums went to this jackal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnitedHealth_Group#Options_Backdating_Investigations_and_Lawsuits)

Does any of this trouble you?

Granted, $27,400 isn’t a tremendous amount of cash in a senatorial race. But it is tremendously symbolic.

By: Mike Wiltfang

Mike Wiltfang — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:16:30 +0000

We may have some insight here into how the Senator Franken, a.k.a. The Emathulator, “won” the election.

By: countryfirst

countryfirst — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:50:52 +0000

Our other senator is a pathetic wimp. Amy Klobuchar STILL does not have a position on the public option!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Here we show her constituents reaction to this news (which is not covered by the mainstream media of course).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCLWV1Mw7Y4

By: Brix Smith

Brix Smith — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:33:34 +0000

Franken does it again!

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By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:50:46 +0000

Republicans have no clue how smart and how informed Franken is. Which is good, because then they’ll continue to have their a$$ handed to them over and over and over.

They can hate his politics, but assuming he is some kind of clown is just going to get them run over.