Posted on 06/30/2005 10:26:34 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
Pinga linga ding dong!
If he is in a Virginia hospital, and getting medicaid, does that mean my taxes here are paying for his treatment?
Why didn't medicaid require that he go to a hospital in his home state?
Better question: Why didn't medicaid cover his surgery?
And, not to ask too many questions, but why would a hospital not operate on a patient that can't pay? That doesn't sound like John's Hopkins to me....
Or better question: If you are destitute, do you deserve to go to the best hospital in the world for your procedure just because you are famous? If JHU is really not operating on people unless they pay cash in advance, aren't there any poor unknown people (people who are poor for reasons other than having quit their job to become famous) who would be better recipients of a free medical procedure at the best hospital in the world?
Last question: If he couldn't pay for a medical procedure, how could he pay for all these flights all over the country that he was taking before his surgery?
I hope that he ends up healthy, but the story has a lot of holes.
Hmm. At what point in the fund-raising process did THIS little revelation occur?
ahhh urinal cake. I once used that name when I played quake ctf.
I saw something about this guy a while back on DU ..I havent kept up but saw this posted on another thread ...I have spent a hour trying to make sense of all this ....Is there anything definitive? Is this a scam? Is this a big deal?
Ping franksolich. He's the resident expert on this saga, which held so many of us enthralled for weeks.
Don't know, first time I have ever heard about him or anything about the issue.
Saw the pics of this guy in a hospital ..If its not true he sure went through a lot to scam people
And see, I was thinking not of Conan O'Brien, but of Ralph-the Mouth from Happy Days.
I am by no means a DU-lib-tree-hugging-pacifistic, but to sink to their level and say to that we hope he dies because he is a lib is asinine. It reminds me of a comment by someone I know that at the news that Rush Limbaugh was loosing his hearing and would go deaf they said, "Good, he deserves it." I was just as appalled at that comment as the comment above with the pitchforks.He is a human being and no one should have to go through that. My father-in-law died with cancer and it is a horrible thing to witness, let alone go through.
We are not DU. They spew bile, hate, and profanities. I should hope that we do become like those we oppose.
We are better than that, people.
RaccaFracca
Ping
Oh I don't hope he dies. I hope he lives a long long life so he can pay back every damn dime Medicaid spent on him.
I'm sure this guy from the Seattle Weekly is at least as trustworthy as Dan Rather.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=104&topic_id=1853168#1854118
In this thread on DU Andy says he has $250,000 in equity in his home. This guy qualifies for medicade?
Well, okay.
But can I get away with just saying that I don't give a rat's ass if he lives or dies...since I have no emotional attachment or anything?
All right, fess up... who gave those yahoos fire?
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