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Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) Humbles Hudson Institute Dilettante Over Health Care Bankruptcies

Posted by AlterNet Staff, AlterNet at 12:12 PM on October 22, 2009.

That's how you have a health debate.

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Franken drove home the point that medical bankruptcies are unheard of in countries with viable heath care systems.

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now THAT'S how you hand someone their ass!!! [Report this comment] Posted by: hurricane hugo on Oct 22, 2009 4:04 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Go, Al! #@! p.s. women in glasses = hot! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: now THAT'S how you hand someone their ass!!! Posted by: That_SOB » RE: now THAT'S how you hand someone their ass!!! Posted by: DaBear Al is serious! [Report this comment] Posted by: pauldd on Oct 22, 2009 5:01 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] As one who regularly listened to Franken's radio program and read his books, aside from his comedic persona, he is a very serious thinker with a progressive agenda. Minnesota and the whole country are lucky to have him in the senate. We should expect great things from Senator Franken following in the footsteps of the late great Paul Wellstone. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Al is serious! Posted by: Doubtom43 » Al. Stay away from small airplanes. Posted by: wolfgangmo75 can we clone 50 more?? [Report this comment] Posted by: wrinklemomma on Oct 22, 2009 5:49 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] God, I love that man!!!!!! Can we find 50 more just like him to straighten the cesspool of Washington out????? Smart, well-read, great timing, and a well-developed sense of irony. GET 'EM, AL!!!!!! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: can we clone 50 more?? Posted by: Doubtom43 Even if... [Report this comment] Posted by: JoshuaLudd on Oct 22, 2009 7:05 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] ... her comment were legitimate, that still leaves you with a higher survival rate.... IF you can afford care, and if your insurance isn't canceled because you got sick. And even then you are likely to STILL be in huge amounts of debt even if your insurance wasn't canceled because... guess what... part of the way they make their money as the middlemen they are is to make sure that serious illnesses STILL cost policy holders tons of money out of their own pockets... in addition to all the money they have paid in, usually for years, to have insurance. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: ven if... Posted by: klatupe A perfect example of a typical RW rhetorical trick on display. [Report this comment] Posted by: ADNK on Oct 23, 2009 3:47 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] When she could no longer make any valid comment on the topic at hand (bankruptcies).. she changed the topic to someplace where she thought she could score points (cure rates). . The fact that Al would have none of it showcases how the forces of Truth & Justice have finally gotten smart. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Smart, no-crap, liberal men make me hot. [Report this comment] Posted by: Ka-bird on Oct 23, 2009 5:32 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] And I'm a lesbian! But seriously. Smart, no-crap people are hot. I am so glad Al made it into Congress. Unlike Obama, who spends way too much time placating the right, Al remains uncompromising on his liberal values. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » Just imagine if Norm Coleman had beaten Franken in the election Posted by: sliver Thank you, smooches!!!!!!! [Report this comment] Posted by: Spiritgirl on Oct 23, 2009 6:15 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Yeah baby, and Dr. here's your face from the floor where it dropped! Thank you Mr. Senator from Minnesota - yeah!!!! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] I Don't Know What To Do... [Report this comment] Posted by: Eric.Arthur.Blair on Oct 23, 2009 6:46 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Move to Minnesota so Big Al can be my senator or move to Florida so Alan Grayson can be my congressman. Come to think of it, maybe we should just elect more people named Al. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: I Don't Know What To Do... Posted by: luzmejor Why can't they all have Mr. Franken's intelligence and backbone? [Report this comment] Posted by: Blondinista on Oct 23, 2009 7:41 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Is anyone else slogging through their company's literature on upcoming benefits changes during their "open enrollment season?" Are anyone else's benefits going to become a lot more expensive on January 1st? We'll have larger co-pays, larger deductibles, and something called "coinsurance," that we didn't have before. Coinsurance means that even after you've paid all your out-of-pocket expenses for the year, there will still be a percentage of covered services that you are responsible for! It seems to me that the insurance companies are getting greedier than ever in anticipation of losing profits after health care reform has passed. And they aren't trying to hide it. I love you, Al Franken. Please keep fighting for us. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] DEAR AL, PLEASE DON'T DECIDE TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT [Report this comment] Posted by: VZEQICVA on Oct 23, 2009 8:50 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Some of our best people stay in a place where they can do the most good. More importantly, speak their minds. Ted Kennedy, Henry Waxman, Russ Feingold, and a lot of others who consistently act in the best interest of the people. Big Al is right where we need him. ANNA [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] I wonder what the survival rate of treatable cancer patients is [Report this comment] Posted by: bitsfick on Oct 23, 2009 9:11 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] among those who do not have any health insurance? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: I wonder what the survival rate of treatable cancer patients is Posted by: hilaryuk » I'm sure she'll find that number and bring it to ya Posted by: hurricane hugo » RE: I wonder what the survival rate of treatable cancer patients is Posted by: IRIQUOIS227 Al kicks medical ass - BIG TIME! [Report this comment] Posted by: zipper696 on Oct 23, 2009 10:10 AM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Oh, I giggled with pure pleasure at watching that rich bitch being skewered with logic. You know what would be classic? Getting one of the dumbass talking heads Beck, Hannity or O'Reilly to invite the senator onto their show to debate this stuff. Of course, it won't happen since they are all fully aware that He'd present them with their ass on a tray. But, Oh, I can dream! [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Al kicks medical ass - BIG TIME! Posted by: gathaiga hardly anything new for this sick country [Report this comment] Posted by: IRIQUOIS227 on Oct 24, 2009 4:29 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] The fact is and has been proven to the satisfaction of any sentient being is that first, socialism is not Joe Stalin, or anything like that. Second this country already has single payer entities such as fire and police, and as Ems providers continue to become the purvue of the Fire Departments nationwide, that two will be a third city service, and paid for exclusively by tax dollars. Third, single payer medical providers have been shown to work perfectly in Europe and other place in the world. Rotten information is passed to uninformed ideologically driven people, a terrible combination, and you get people that hate the very help they need. It seems Americans are brainwashed to believe that if they don't pay through the nose for it, it's no good. Stupidity is the very issue that has brought America to the precipice today. A pathetic criminal regime such as the one present and past in Washington couldn't exist with an intelligent, sophisticated electorate. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] gathaiga [Report this comment] Posted by: gathaiga on Oct 24, 2009 5:34 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Franken is the new kid on the block. Politics have a way of screwing up otherwise fairly decent people via power, money, and greed. Let's hope Al is immune. 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