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If It Drove Denzel Washington to Taking Hostages, What Will It Do To Us?
stellapundit.blogspot.com ^ | March 16, 2010 | Stella Paul

Posted on 03/16/2010 3:48:05 PM PDT by Trafalgar123

Does anybody remember John Q, a 2002 melodrama that starred Denzel Washington as a loving father driven mad by his insurance company’s refusal to pay for his son’s heart transplant? Faced with his son’s imminent death, Denzel seizes his only option: taking the hospital emergency room hostage until doctors agree to perform the operation.

The movie portrays Denzel sympathetically as the victim of greedy insurance companies and openly pleads for national health insurance. But what happens when it’s the government who’s refusing your son – or mother – or wife – the heart transplant? What happens when it’s the friendly Congressman in your local diner whose vote resulted in the health care rationing that’s killing someone you love? What do you do when you see your Senator at the State Fair and know that his vote put your father in his coffin? What then?

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TOPICS: Government; Health/Medicine; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: denzelwashington; johnq; obamacare
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To: apillar
You would be wise to establish your own “health care savings account” to fly yourself or your loved ones off shore for treatment denied by the death panel.

OH, but the single payer system is only the first step.

Once we have a single payer system where the death panel decides when it is too expensive to keep you alive in place, them will come the campaign of “It isn’t fair that some can afford to go off shore to get health care”.

Eventually it will be illegal to leave the country for health care that was refused to you here. We must all suffer equally.

21 posted on 03/16/2010 4:31:39 PM PDT by Pontiac
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To: Trafalgar123

They will never have control of my body or any of my family. I will resist forever.


22 posted on 03/16/2010 4:35:48 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Deem-ocrat fascists oppose constitutional democracy)
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To: denydenydeny

Maybe some ideas for right now low-budget indie films.


23 posted on 03/16/2010 6:22:41 PM PDT by wally_bert (It's sheer elegance in its simplicity! - The Middleman)
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