 masbury says: despite four major heart attacks and other serious coronary issues, Cheney "can't be denied health insurance no matter how serious his heart condition is" because he is a U.S. government employee. But you'd be dead. He's the Vice President for crying out loud. The same was true for Al Gore and every other *important* person of such status. And does anyone believe that this exalted privilege has just appeared on the scene for his benefit? It's been around from time immemorial. Another Cheney hit piece. Don't you know that only the unborn and important people deserve to live? Life is for high status people. It's stunning that even after being told that justifying inequality is a weakness, many cannot help themselves. Yes, for crying out loud, he is the VP. Can't something be done about that? As to it being a hit piece, jatfla, it siimply that he makes such a great poster-boy for the point. I don't recall Gore having multiple heart attacks to concern our checkbook with. @jatfla Just because something has always been done a certain way for time immemorial doesn't make it the right thing to do when circumstances change. When people grow up and realize that the VP's right to life is just as important as their own, then they work to make changes to insane policies of the past to benefit everyone in the future. I would like for my father to have had what Dick Cheney has access to. My father served his country. He died of heart failure. It would have been nice to see that my father was cared about as much as Dick Cheney is cared about as an equal human being. My father was not equal even though he served his country at the time of Pear Harbor. Being a U.S. Gov't employee doesn't ensure health insurance. I'm a career Civil Servant (since 1985) and I have to pay for mine like anyone else, though we do get the Gov't rate. jetfla - OK, then, think of another good example of a person who has government-paid insurance who can't be cancelled but would have been if he had yours or mine. See? BB is right - he is simply an excellent example of how Congress has always given itself and some others insurance that it maintains it doesn't believe in for others. It isn't a Cheney knock-off: Cheney doesn't need insurance. He could pay for anything out of his own pocket. Congress has given insurance that can't be cancelled to itself and some other elites, even though most of them would do fine without it. The point is this: that famous "self-evident" truth - that "all men are created equal and endowed by their Creato... I dispute the whole idea myself. Technically, Cheney would need a heart to qualify for the procedures. Point well taken, WT. Point proven - he has a heart?!  Are we talking about Tinman or Dick Cheney? |
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