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	<title>Comments on: WHO NEEDS FACTS WHEN YOU&#8217;VE GOT A PERFECTLY GOOD OPINION?</title>
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		<title>By: David Black</title>
		<link>http://www.crankymediaguy.com/245/who-needs-facts-when-youve-got-a-perfectly-good-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-155</link>
		<dc:creator>David Black</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:16:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Then get a job if you don&#039;t have health insurance for you and your wife! What the hell is your problem?

Why are all you libs looking for a handout to get you through life?


DB

&lt;blockquote&gt;Ever heard of &quot;preexisting condition,&quot; lame ass? No, probably not. You don&#039;t know enough to make comments like this. Private for-profit health insurance will do NOTHING. Zero. They&#039;re in the business of making a lot of money not helping sick people. You&#039;ll find out for yourself someday. Make sure they put on your head stone &quot;But I thought pay or die health insurance would work for ME.&quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Then get a job if you don&#8217;t have health insurance for you and your wife! What the hell is your problem?</p>
<p>Why are all you libs looking for a handout to get you through life?</p>
<p>DB</p>
<blockquote><p>Ever heard of &#8220;preexisting condition,&#8221; lame ass? No, probably not. You don&#8217;t know enough to make comments like this. Private for-profit health insurance will do NOTHING. Zero. They&#8217;re in the business of making a lot of money not helping sick people. You&#8217;ll find out for yourself someday. Make sure they put on your head stone &#8220;But I thought pay or die health insurance would work for ME.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Johnny The Atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.crankymediaguy.com/245/who-needs-facts-when-youve-got-a-perfectly-good-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-107</link>
		<dc:creator>Johnny The Atheist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Sep 2009 14:51:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Am hoping you remember me, a former guest on your show (12/24/92) about Atheism. We also touched base when you went to WEEX---Terrible Tommy Bush vs Johnny for $40,000. You could say my judgement was somewhat impaired.

So, Bob, are you on the air, or what? WGPA could use some &#039;fresh air&#039;. Otherwise, guess you are thrilled about corpoprate radio, as we all are.


Johnny

&lt;blockquote&gt;I&#039;ll be in touch via e-mail.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Am hoping you remember me, a former guest on your show (12/24/92) about Atheism. We also touched base when you went to WEEX&#8212;Terrible Tommy Bush vs Johnny for $40,000. You could say my judgement was somewhat impaired.</p>
<p>So, Bob, are you on the air, or what? WGPA could use some &#8216;fresh air&#8217;. Otherwise, guess you are thrilled about corpoprate radio, as we all are.</p>
<p>Johnny</p>
<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ll be in touch via e-mail.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Johnny The Atheist</title>
		<link>http://www.crankymediaguy.com/245/who-needs-facts-when-youve-got-a-perfectly-good-opinion/comment-page-1/#comment-105</link>
		<dc:creator>Johnny The Atheist</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:46:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Are you Bob Pagani?

&lt;blockquote&gt;The one and only! WAEB and all of that.&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you Bob Pagani?</p>
<blockquote><p>The one and only! WAEB and all of that.</p></blockquote>
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		<title>By: Kirstyn Fox</title>
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		<dc:creator>Kirstyn Fox</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I recently (1 year ago) lost someone to complications of a heart attack. She had the heart attack in 2005 and we went through the trials of Medicare and general assistance. Her doctor told her she was unable to return to work and said she was completely disabled due to half her heart no longer beating.. 

Throughout several years of treatments and implant devices, she alwas got the care she needed. Deborah Heart an Lung Center (Deborah.org) even went as far as searching for new trials an services that would improve her life.

At times affording meds and even gas to get her appointments was tough, but her doctors always went out of their way to help in any way possible.

Her ultimate Seth wasn&#039;t due to the health system ignoring her due to lack of money, but instead the lack of available heart doners when she really needed it.

While I am for the most part in favor of a universal healthcare package, I wanted to make it clear that sometimes the current system isn&#039;t as flawed as everyone makes it out to be.

I hope your wife gets the care she needs and that you don&#039;t need to suffer the loss I did anytime soon.

-Kirstyn Amanda Fox

p.s I apologize for any gramatical and spelling errors in advanced as I&#039;m posting this from a mobile device.

&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;i&gt;I&#039;m sorry for your loss. That&#039;s the number one thing I want to convey. I wish more people would be doners! I am. We all are, here at CMG. So let&#039;s spread that message!

Beyond that, we need to try to make things better for everyone. I have to point out that Medicare (which you mentioned in your comment) is single-payer, &quot;government-run&quot; health care. And thank God for it, even though it wasn&#039;t able to save your loved one. It, along with medicaid, is the only health care in America that won&#039;t cut you off to improve profit margins. Medicare will do what they can to save you. 

On the other side, health insurance companies are famous for finding excuses to let you die, because they are in business only for profit and not to take care of sick people. 

It is not a matter of opinion but of statistical FACT that America has some of the worst health care in the first world. It is good that you got most of what you needed. But the reality is that most people in such dire straits don&#039;t get half of what they need, especially if they have to depend on private for-profit health insurance. Yet if we did something as simple as extending Medicare to cover everyone, we could save tens of thousands of lives every year. Anyone who claims any level of respect for human life should want that.&lt;/i&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I recently (1 year ago) lost someone to complications of a heart attack. She had the heart attack in 2005 and we went through the trials of Medicare and general assistance. Her doctor told her she was unable to return to work and said she was completely disabled due to half her heart no longer beating.. </p>
<p>Throughout several years of treatments and implant devices, she alwas got the care she needed. Deborah Heart an Lung Center (Deborah.org) even went as far as searching for new trials an services that would improve her life.</p>
<p>At times affording meds and even gas to get her appointments was tough, but her doctors always went out of their way to help in any way possible.</p>
<p>Her ultimate Seth wasn&#8217;t due to the health system ignoring her due to lack of money, but instead the lack of available heart doners when she really needed it.</p>
<p>While I am for the most part in favor of a universal healthcare package, I wanted to make it clear that sometimes the current system isn&#8217;t as flawed as everyone makes it out to be.</p>
<p>I hope your wife gets the care she needs and that you don&#8217;t need to suffer the loss I did anytime soon.</p>
<p>-Kirstyn Amanda Fox</p>
<p>p.s I apologize for any gramatical and spelling errors in advanced as I&#8217;m posting this from a mobile device.</p>
<blockquote><p><i>I&#8217;m sorry for your loss. That&#8217;s the number one thing I want to convey. I wish more people would be doners! I am. We all are, here at CMG. So let&#8217;s spread that message!</p>
<p>Beyond that, we need to try to make things better for everyone. I have to point out that Medicare (which you mentioned in your comment) is single-payer, &#8220;government-run&#8221; health care. And thank God for it, even though it wasn&#8217;t able to save your loved one. It, along with medicaid, is the only health care in America that won&#8217;t cut you off to improve profit margins. Medicare will do what they can to save you. </p>
<p>On the other side, health insurance companies are famous for finding excuses to let you die, because they are in business only for profit and not to take care of sick people. </p>
<p>It is not a matter of opinion but of statistical FACT that America has some of the worst health care in the first world. It is good that you got most of what you needed. But the reality is that most people in such dire straits don&#8217;t get half of what they need, especially if they have to depend on private for-profit health insurance. Yet if we did something as simple as extending Medicare to cover everyone, we could save tens of thousands of lives every year. Anyone who claims any level of respect for human life should want that.</i> </p></blockquote>
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