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   Margueritem said, 2 months ago

   Get ‘em, Daisy!

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   yyyguy said, 2 months ago

   how many sons have been embarassed by our mothers?
   too many to count, and it won’t ever end. you just have to love them, anyway.

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   Eric Rahn said, 2 months ago

   ^^^ Didn’t that already happen?

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   Ravenswing said, 2 months ago

   I’m agreeing with GEE. The Republican wingnuts have been screeching insults for a generation now. They dish it out every step of the way, but funny … they get really hot under the collar when they have to take it. Boo freaking hoo.

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   AKHenderson said, 2 months ago

   At least the frightened old people wouldn’t be the ones paying for ObamaCare. That bill goes to the younger generations.

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   Avolunteer said, 2 months ago

   Living in Canada now ( we are US citizens, born there &, lived there over 50 years…) gives us a different perspective on all this. If people in the USofA would go to a hospital that does not have waterfalls, music, private suites etc and be happy for good basic care in wards of 4 to 8 (coed) things wouldn’t cost as much, and the total governmant cost would be a lot less than now. But all the ambiance of a two star (or higher) hotel seems to be the “basic” you want there. And lets not get into litigation over any little thing that is less than perfection. I worked in healthcare in the USofA so I know first hand how people with no insurance can end up costing taxpayers more in the long term as they don’t get care until they end up so sick they are months in ICU! (which is where I worked)

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   Potrzebie said, 2 months ago

   Do the frightened geezers outnumber minorities as a voting block?

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   ionFreeman said, 2 months ago

   Hey, over at Dilbert.com, someone told me of a page with just the comic, and no reader comments. Does something like that exist for Doonesbury?
   http://www.dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-06-08/

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   Potrzebie said, 2 months ago

   try doonesbury.com

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    BobMcK said, 2 months ago

    Perhaps Avolunteer can put up with hospital wards with 6-8 people to a room, but I am a damned American and if I wanted to suffer in a room with seven other sick people, I would go to India or Mexico or New York City or some other third-world country. I don’t need the huge edifices or waterfalls, but privacy is my right (even though free health care isn’t). If I am sick or hurt enough to require being in a hospital, the last thing I need is a room full of sick people, dozens of their stupid relatives, and 24-hour nursing traffic. I need treatment and rest.

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    Fer Lefer said, 2 months ago

    Don’t get mad, Bomb; if you were enough sick or hurt to be in a hospital, you wouldn’t notice the sick people, relatives and nurses…

    …by the way: here in México, you do have from 4 to 8 people in hospiat bedrooms, except in intensive care… there are only 2 or 3… but they don’t ‘care’.

    ( ^ _ ~ )

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    Orgelspieler said, 2 months ago

    BobMcK, cool down. In those countries with free BASIC health care, private rooms in private hospitals are still readily available, but if you want it you (or your private health insurance policy) will need to pay for it. Oh yeah, those places also still have private health insurance, if you want something over and above the basic care the government provides for everyone.

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    montessoriteacher said, 2 months ago

    If you don’t like sharing a room in a hospital, how does going bankrupt sound? As damned Americans, this is where we are headed. I am far more afraid of losing everything thanks to enormous medical bills. As ridiculous as our costs are now they are set to double in the next ten years. Most of the docs have now accepted that we need to completely change our current system. There are some older people who are afraid and some wingnuts in the GOP and of course, insurance executives. The rest of us, including the majority of docs, are ready for basic and huge systemic change in health care. Huge medical bills are a major source of bankruptcy in this country. you want the status quo? Good luck!

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    jack75287 said, 2 months ago

    GEE1A

    You mean calling George Bush, Newt Gindridge and Ronald Reagan Nazi’s for thirty years. No thanks been there done that.

    This is a true statement Seniors are like 14 percent of the public and they are the most active voting block sense I was a kid.

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    Dypak said, 2 months ago

    ionFreeman said, about 3 hours ago
    Hey, over at Dilbert.com, someone told me of a page with just the comic, and no reader comments. Does something like that exist for Doonesbury?
    —–
    Dude, drop the ten bucks or whatever it costs and pay for it. You’ll get all the comics on one page, no comments. Or just ignore them if they bother you.

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    Dypak said, 2 months ago

    “Is this thing on?”

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    cholldekkgher stenst... said, 2 months ago

    “Can ya hear me out there, test test!”

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    pschearer said, 2 months ago

    Who expected such age-ism from a 61-year-old cartoonist?

    As for open hospital wards, they disappeared in the U.S. decades ago when Medicare announced it would only pay for semi-private rooms. Just one way out of many that existing government involvement in healthcare drove up costs which are now the excuse for more government intrusion.

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    Joe Allen Doty said, 2 months ago

    There are several hospitals in Tulsa. One of them is connected with the Oklahoma State University.

    Two of them are Roman Catholic Church owned hospitals, St. John’s Medical Center and St. Francis Health Care System. Both of them are mega-multiplexes covering quite a few acres each.

    The St. Francis outfit even owns a retirement community with apartments and houses; but, no seniors on poverty level fixed incomes can afford to live there.

    While the RCC hospitals will treat anyone who goes to their ERs, when those without insurance are treated, they ask Oklahoma’s state Medicaid program to reimburse them. Since they are “Christian” hospitals, they should not ask the government for money to pay for services of those who cannot pay.

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    Chikuku said, 2 months ago

    potrzebie: yes, they do.

    First time she’s called herself “Daisy Doonesbury.” She used to call herself “The Widow Doonesbury.”

    All civilized nations, except the USA, have public health care. The USA is 1st in the world in medical expense, 17th in medical effectiveness.

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    hookedoncomics said, 2 months ago

    Did anyone watch Courtney Cox’s new show, The Cougar last night? Now that is an embarrased son! LOL

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    Susan001 said, 2 months ago

    Get real, people! Do you honestly believe this country would be better off under McBush and Caribou Barbie?
    I don’t!

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    montessoriteacher said, 2 months ago

    Who said we were 17th in health care effectiveness? The WHO, World Health Organization, said we were 37th. Look it up. Also, check out We’re #37 by Paul Hipp on youtube.

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    Ira Nayman said, 2 months ago

    Daisy doesn’t strike me as Republican or necessarily right wing. I think she is scared and angry and doesn’t know enough about the way things work to know where to productively direct her fear and anger. The fact that such anger is stoked by right wingers is reprehensible, but they’re the ones who should take he heat, not seniors.

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    OldHipster said, 2 months ago

    What a groovy name, Paul Hipp!

    Ya know?

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    AKHenderson said, 2 months ago

    Does WHO know what it’s talking about? What are the criteria for its health care rating system?

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    tgk said, 2 months ago

    As a Canadian, I must say, everyone I know is sitting here shaking our heads and laughing. This is not a third world country (although we have less of a feeling of entitlement as typified by the hospital bed debate). But I will say that I can see my family doctor, be admitted into emergency, get flu vaccines any time I want. I am treated in clean, comfortable facilities by polite, medical professionals and guess how much it costs me? NOTHING.
    As a family member said, while undergoing chemotherapy, I am glad I live in a country where guns are not a right, but health care is.
    As for the country going broke Canada’s economy is not nearly as deep in recession as the USA’s.

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    Guilden_NL said, 2 months ago

    tgk, The reason that you have so many family that loves Canadian health care is that we have most of your fellow citizens down here in Arizona getting care they can’t get in Canada. Sorry, been there and done that. Lived in Australia, Singapore, UK and the Netherlands, while working a lot in Germany and Canada. I’ll take Dutch care any day, and like the Deutsch private insurance care. There’s no way I would ever try to live under the UK or Canadian health care systems!

    I am glad to be living in a country where everyone gets health care whether they can afford it or not, and where I can get state of the art care because I can.

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    Atma said, 2 months ago

    I live in the Netherlands where I pay about 880 euros a year for PRIVATE insurance that has NO deductible, NO exams, and NO limits on coverage. As you say, GuildenNL, it’s top notch quality here. What’s the point of going back to the US where I’d have to pay double that for far less coverage, and risk bankruptcy on top of that?

    A British friend of mine fractured his hip while in the Netherlands. The UK healthcare system picked up the whole tab. Not sure they would agree if it happened in the USA….

    This is an entertaining musical homage to America’s
    place in the world … for health care:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVgOl3cETb4