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And by that I mean ideas, suggestions, and othere video that I may not have included.
Here we are now Entertain us I feel stupid and contagious
by Scarce on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 08:51:32 AM PDT
It's almost too heartbreaking to read about.
I couldn't bring myself to watch all those clips, but I'm glad you collected them.
by JeremiahFP on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 08:57:24 AM PDT
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This isn't going away.
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by nyceve on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:03:12 AM PDT
You were the inspiration for this here at DailyKos.
Watch the last clip especially, her brother's video. Powerful.
by Scarce on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:04:45 AM PDT
Heartbreaking but so powerful!As her brother gave the bird to Cigna so did I. Cigna is so going to pay through the nose. I loved what Edwards said too, "you think we are going to sit at a table and negotiate with these people?" thankyou so much for this diary, Scarce.
*a hundred years from now, the future may be different because I was important in the life of a child*
by bonesy on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:20:05 AM PDT
it's all of them.
This is an unspeakable tragedy. The most horrific death is that of a child but Nataline's was a corporate-profitability decision. I can't imagine what her family is going through.
Hopefully, this will get the attention of everyone who has children and everyone who thinks this is just "the way it is." Life, itself is being priced beyond reach for the benefit of the investors and the support of the stock price.
I fully expect the Republicanderthals will decry using a tragedy for political purposes. Let them. This must be forcefed to any politician who supports the status quo.
(-7.75, -7.69) No matter how cynical I get, I just can't keep up - Lily Tomlin
by john07801 on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:45:58 AM PDT
"Le ciel est bleu, l'enfer est rouge."
by Buzzer on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 11:09:01 AM PDT
between Teri Schaivo and Nataline is that Teri was already gone. Nataline stood a chance, had Cigna given a damn and approved coverage for the treatments from the beginning. Had they done that, Nataline very well could be alive and well (or at least on the road to recovery) today! Of course that would have required that Cigna had done the Humanitarian, Responsible thing and approved her procedure(s).
The sheer fact that the republiCons would make such a huge issue over Teri Schaivo, who was never going to make it through her ordeal alive, is just another example of how cynical the republiCons truly are, imo. They'd rather stomp, rant and rave over the unsavable instead of working their tails off for the savable. It's just another example that to them it's all about the Almightly Greenback, just like it is for Cigna, et al. And we "Mythical Little Guys" as Tom Tancredo so eloquently referred to us, just aren't worth their time, money, or trouble! Like Randi Rhodes says, (and I paraphrase):
'Voting RepubliCon is voting against your own best interests, unless you're among the top 1% of our society.'
I sure wish more Americans would realize this already!
This entire scenario about Nataline and her family, it's sickening. It's heartwrenching. It's Murder By Spreadsheet as nyceve continues to hammer home. It's cruel and unusual punishment to the rest of us too! And, in a scary way, I can't help but feel like this is the most overt form of Eugenicide that I've ever seen in America to date (except for slavery, perhaps).
GWB + GOP = WMD
by Shaking the Tree on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 01:00:47 PM PDT
-- that's my idea of reality politics.
Heck, it shouldn't just be Hannibal Lecter gits the fun.
Dixie Chicks, Amy Winehouse, Imus, and Rev. Wright. Overcome our evil with good.
by vets74 on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 04:37:39 PM PDT
responsible for Nataline's fate as they have done nothing about the healthcare mess in this Country other than to ignore the problem and continue the status quo. (I noticed that Cheney's heart procedure was covered this year.) Each year tens of thousands of families have to fight with insurance companies to get necessary, and covered, medical care for loved ones. Nataline's story is heartbreaking and my thoughts and prayers go out to her, her family, and her friends.
by Fallon on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:13:56 PM PDT
Remember 1993, when Bill Clinton staked his young presidencey on overhauling health care, and then when his wife's efforts collapsed of their own weight and ineptitude, they just walked away. They started out saying it was a critical issue for the American people, staked out the moral high ground, then they got outflanked by the Harry & Louise republicans and JUST GAVE UP AND WALKED AWAY.
The early signs are that Edwards will have more cojones.
by facethemusic on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 12:38:35 PM PDT
I detest them.
by LivinginReality on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 06:18:05 PM PDT
I wholly agree the debacle surrounding the death of Nataline Sarkisyan is a tragedy.
However, there are likely 100s of 1000s of similiar "murder by spreadsheet" tragedies resulting from the ruthless and uncaring manner in which the healthcare insurance industry routinely administers claims.
John Edwards absolutely has it right:
Are you telling me that we're gonna sit at a table and negotiate with those people?
by attydave on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 03:53:54 PM PDT
I loved what Edwards said too, "you think we are going to sit at a table and negotiate with these people?"
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by Blue Waters Run Deep on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:52:32 AM PDT
Obama/Gore
by Village expects idiot home soon on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 11:15:00 AM PDT
on your diary. Like I said there, I hope they win and take CIGNA down, hard. Keep hammering away, nyceve, it's starting to work!! Perhaps you can get in touch with the family's attorney and email him any research you have on CIGNA and their procedures. He may have a bit of trouble getting that information right now. Given the law suit, I am sure that CIGNA will be "losing" all sorts of things, records, memos, etc. relating to this case.
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by Demfem on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 01:10:54 PM PDT
you might want to edit the first word in the body of your text -shouldn't it read "Front and center"?
Otherwise, outstanding and recommended. We can't give this story too much publicity.
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
by sidnora on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:05:04 AM PDT
I'm a pictures guy, not a word guy.
by Scarce on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:06:58 AM PDT
We have to fight these people, and I use the word people rather loosely.
"There is one man who knows in his heart that we have to build one America - not two - and that man is Barack Obama." John Edwards 5/14/08
by TomP on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:06:06 AM PDT
are wiyhout a soul, without a sense of humanity, without empathy for a dying child. What has our Nation become? And sadly, horribly, the tragedy is far larger than this one child's life. This is a tragedy repeated over and over and over again in this Nation. The way to give any meaning at all to this senseless death is to COMMIT to changing this shham of a "health care" system in America, to one that serves the People. And it doesn't matter WHO sayt it can't be done. It must be done. A health care system that works would be the only fitting memorial to this child, and all others who died at the hands of the Cignas of this Nation.
"We the People of the United States..." -U.S.Constitution
by elwior on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 10:55:44 AM PDT
it's the funding.
SOCIALIZE THE FUNDING--PRIVATIZE THE CARE
How do you tell a predator from a protector? The predator will eat you sooner rather than later.
by hannah on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 11:31:38 AM PDT
...but I'm glad you posted this, Scarce.
I watched my mother go through hoops to try to get what she needed when she was suffering horribly with cancer.
The insurance industry is just that...industry. Pushed-paper factory lines, bottom lines.
Mom's nurses were the real angels...I have so much respect for what they do on the front lines, decisions made because of insurance company greed notwthstanding.
Universal healthcare can't come soon enough.
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by Iddybud on Sat Dec 22, 2007 at 09:08:37 AM PDT
wide narrow
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