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Cancer Society Phoning for Health Care Support.
Boiling Point

Posted on 03/16/2010 12:29:54 PM PDT by Boiling point

I just got called by the American Cancer Society urging me to send a message to congressman Bart Gordon, (6th district TN), in support of the health care bill. The caller started out by saying that the A.C.S. is a non partisan organization and is only interested in the health of cancer victims. After telling him I was opposed to the bill, he thanked me and hung up. If the A.C.S. is truly non-partisan, then what are they doing campaigning for Obama care? And as far as being interested in the welfare of cancer victims, I guess they don't think being enslaved and broke forever is an adverse condition. At least if health care passes, we ALL get to suffer right along with the cancer patient. If this an indication of the intellect of the management of the A.C.S., then I have serious doubts about their ability to manage donations.


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To: Pollster1
"At the American Cancer Society, we're working every day to create a world with less cancer and more birthdays.

Uh......excuse me, but the Death Care bill offers unlimited free abortions. What birthdays?

21 posted on 03/16/2010 12:47:04 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: kittykat77

kittykat77-Seminar Poster-since Nov 26 , 2008.


22 posted on 03/16/2010 12:49:07 PM PDT by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: kittykat77

Ah but there is a difference. The NRA collects money specifically to support and protect 2nd Amendment rights. Perhaps I was not aware but I was under the impression that the American Cancer Society used donations to support research and development of cancer treatments and drugs, not political activism. I could see them endorsing or opposing a bill specifically dealing with cancer, but I just feel it reeks of partisanship on such a broad bill, supported almost exclusively by Marxists, Socialists, Progressives and Liberals. I think I would feel differently if it truly was a bipartisan bill with equal support on both sides.


23 posted on 03/16/2010 12:52:15 PM PDT by Boiling point (Beck / Palin 2012)
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To: Boiling point
....And as far as being interested in the welfare of cancer victims

Do they have their own death wish? After Oboma Death Care passes, the elderly will be killed off, the very young will be killed, and the only people who will be left are the healthy. Why have the cancer society at all? Who are they going to be saving?

24 posted on 03/16/2010 12:53:38 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: Boiling point

Cancer victims should just accept that their health is declining.

Isn’t that the stance of the Senate Majority Leader?


25 posted on 03/16/2010 12:57:54 PM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the "Dave Ramsey Fan" ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: Boiling point

ACS phone number 1-800-227-2345


26 posted on 03/16/2010 1:00:27 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: CSM
Cancer victims should just accept that their health is declining. Isn’t that the stance of the Senate Majority Leader?

It's like Oboma said. Give them the blue pill. Game over. The American Cancer Society agrees with him, apparently.

27 posted on 03/16/2010 1:01:03 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: CSM

Facilities like Dana Farber and Shriners Burns operate from private funding. I don’t believe ObamaCare allows for that.


28 posted on 03/16/2010 1:01:36 PM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Boiling point

Why does ACS want to lower cancer survival rates?


29 posted on 03/16/2010 1:02:22 PM PDT by rmlew (The left has elected a new nation with the help of neoconservatives and libertarians.)
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To: Boiling point

I’m sick of the so-called charities that solicit money from me, then use that money to lobby the government to take more money from me. I’m finished with them all except for the Salvation Army.


30 posted on 03/16/2010 1:02:34 PM PDT by Second Amendment First
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To: Boiling point

I really hope I get a call from them!


31 posted on 03/16/2010 1:03:23 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: Boiling point
It is astounding that they would support this. Cancer treatment is one of the worst types of care in all socialist health care systems.

There is less money for new drugs, less money spent on new treatments, 70% worse survivability (or worse), and long waits for treatment. All of which is deadly.

Why on earth would these morons be for it?

32 posted on 03/16/2010 1:05:10 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: kittykat77

“Let’s pick a different issue. Suppose a Republican bill reversing the Brady Bill was up for a vote in Congress, and you received a call from the NRA urging you to call your congressmen in support of the bill. Is that partisan? Or is that just the NRA being what it is: an advocacy group?”

Don’t care whether it’s partisan or not. Never donating to them again. Just got off the phone with an ACS rep telling them that.


33 posted on 03/16/2010 1:05:50 PM PDT by ModelBreaker
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To: Pollster1

I suggest everyone use the link in your post to “tell their story” and let them know that they will not get a dime if Zerocare passes and that they are a bunch of idiots for supporting this.


34 posted on 03/16/2010 1:10:19 PM PDT by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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To: Nachum
There is less money for new drugs, less money spent on new treatments, 70% worse survivability (or worse), and long waits for treatment. All of which is deadly. Why on earth would these morons be for it?

Without cancer, they'd have no multimillion dollar business. They need cancer victims in order to stay alive themselves. The more cancer, the greater their donations.

Things are not always what they seem.

35 posted on 03/16/2010 1:11:32 PM PDT by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: concerned about politics

Never thought of it that way. They actually want people to suffer and die. Geez.


36 posted on 03/16/2010 1:12:30 PM PDT by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: Boiling point

Guess they don’t want anymore donations. Ok.


37 posted on 03/16/2010 1:15:44 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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To: kittykat77
I don’t see anything wrong with the Cancer Society doing this. They are an advocacy group afterall. Let’s pick a different issue. Suppose a Republican bill reversing the Brady Bill was up for a vote in Congress, and you received a call from the NRA urging you to call your congressmen in support of the bill. Is that partisan? Or is that just the NRA being what it is: an advocacy group?

The NRA is essentially an advocacy group for the Second Amendment to the Constitution. For reasons that disgust me, the Dems have made that a partisan issue, and in that sense the NRA is partisan. If I was a true-believer Dem who had no interest in the Constitution, I would stop supporting the NRA (or more likely never have started supporting them). Medical care and cancer research used to be non-partisan. The American Cancer Society has now chosen sides. Since they joined with the socialists on a purely partisan issue, they are no longer on my side. I've had cancer (fully recovered!) and lost friends to cancer, but the Constitution comes ahead of even this social issue. They crossed an unforgivable line by endorsing a terrible bill to help the Dems.

38 posted on 03/16/2010 1:16:06 PM PDT by Pollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)
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To: Boiling point; kittykat77

Just to be fair, let me tell you what I have found. The American Cancer Society IS a charity. BUT - The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) is indeed an advocacy group. My problem with that is that they are under the same roof, and it makes it hard to tell the difference. Sort of like regular Muslims and explosive Muslims...

Link is here - go way down the page to see the difference between ACS and ACS CAN:

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/subsite/accesstocare/content/Frequently_Asked_Questions.asp


39 posted on 03/16/2010 1:16:26 PM PDT by HeadOn (I want Al Gore prosecuted for fraud. And the Nobel committee as accessories.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

“It’s pointless for something to be “cheap” if you don’t get that something in the end.”
Yeah, except that it won’t be cheap and we still won’t get it. Well, we’ll get it alright, just not how we’d like it.


40 posted on 03/16/2010 1:19:12 PM PDT by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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