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  • Hiyaaaa! Have you ever tried - fast abs magic (do a search on google)? Ive heard some incredible things about it and my buddy got hot 6 pack abs and lost a lot of fat with it.

  • that baby didn't even look skinny wth..this is crazy

  • That's some BS healthcare :( I hope the US gets some better health care soon! Btw I'm canadian not American lol

  • @jtreehugger you and me both

  • breast fed babies are often chubbier, it's cause breast milk is nutritious, but saying that fat babies aren't allowed on their plan, means that more moms are going to be pushed to formula feeding. they'll have a bunch of skinny, formula fed babies, growing up, and draining their company of funds cause overall, they're a less healthy bunch... good plan.

  • GET THE INSURANCE EARLIER... for the example of the kid: the parents should have got insurance when she was born or even before that! oh, or move to canada :)

  • Tell kids in China you don't have a problem with capitalism when they're selling sneakers...

  • i dont get it, you pay so much fucking money for your insurance just for them to deny you coverage. thats just fucking sad and pathetic

  • @DCpin0y But people insist there are death panels, etc. in the healthcare bill, call it "Obamacare" and defend the industry to the death because they are so afraid of the government. They have been told that government is bad and they are not smart enough to realize there is good and bad in government. There was this guy, fbi10, who INSISTED there were death panels, etc. I decided he was not on the square, so I stopped arguing with him. Go to the "Death Panels BS is back" video and you will see

  • @DCpin0y what I mean. He cannot be this irrational. He was being Stephen Colbert. I just decided I was wasting my time and let him have his precious private insurance. But there are many others who are on the square. They DO believe the lies because they are not smart enough and too afraid to think it through. Reagan and others have hammered in fear of government so innately that they are shaking in their boots. Fear is a very strong motivator for weak-minded people. That's why they do it.

  • @Zander73 I was gonna leave a comment here expressing my point of view, but then I saw you went ahead and did it better than I ever could. Much obliged, bro!

  • In Denmark healthcare is free for all, as long you are danish citizen, but we help tourists also :) for free

  • i am so happy to live in canada!

  • Over here we have an NHS. When we gett ill we are more concerned about getting better and we don't need to worry about this insurance bullshit.

    I have private medical care through my work but I still elect for NHS more often than not because until I get majorly ill (which thankfully I have not been recently) the NHS matches private healthcare 9/10. This is why the UK's life expectancy is pretty high. We take care of our own. We value human life more than premiums and insurance.

  • Well here in AMERICA it's the FUCK YOU system of HEALTH care if you get sick and can't afford insurance!

    Capitalism is great and not so great at the same time, especially when dealing with health insurance...

  • @Somozusi I agree with your statement totally. Greed is corrupting and clouding people's visions. It isn't socialist, its being humane, valuing human life as you said.

  • Beat the standards outta them. i cant believe this, both kids were totally beautiful, and deserve health insurance as much as the next kid (no matter what percentile they're in).

  • that is STUPID!!

  • How can you deny any CHILD healthcare??? How is this not killing the company ratings?

  • Now tell me the Healthcare companies don't want sick people to hurry up and die.

  • Baby Alex looks like John Lydon.

  • Yea but I heard she was just signed by Ralph Lauren as their chief spokesmodel

  • You bomb the shit out of them. Next question.

  • It's ironic the google advertisement I see on this page is "Obama Care Stop Him!"

  • Back during the election, all the adds were support McCain. lol

  • In my opinion, if America has the funds to kill people, then it must have the funds to heal people. Over the past 8 years or so, the US has spend over 800 billion dollars killing people, when that expense could have saved the lives of many Americans. Fuck costly and unnecessary wars.

  • @stargateproductions i dont know about you but i'd rather the suicide sand people dead and in sand then on my doorstep

  • @jhardyrules13

    Yeah, cause everyone from Iraq is a terrorist and hates America. LOL!

  • @stargateproductions yeah i see your point i do agree with you why are we fighting if we both beleive the same thing!

  • @jhardyrules13 you know those suicide "sand" people werent even hurting a fly in Iraq. Dumbass americans.

  • @stargateproductions but we needed oil, dont be a jerk

  • @grenadezeroone America just had their soldiers killed, they lost money, and now the terrorists are spreading wider and farther. So thank yourselves, you're in it for the long haul.

  • @iHacksorzz small price to pay for oil. WE LOVE OIL dont you get it? Everything we do is to get oil

  • @grenadezeroone tongue in cheek humour, whew! Unbelievable amount of death because of thirst for oil.

  • @iHacksorzz You think I'm joking?

  • I fail to see the technical difference between Health Insurance Capitalism and Sneakers Capitalism. Yes one has worse consequences than the other, but that doesen't make "sneakers capitalism" all right.

    The majority of people involved in ANY kind of capitalism gets cheated. The loss in most cases is fruit of labor, but when it's human health it's apparently remarkably different. Why?

    Cenk keeps saying he supports capitalism, but never why, and he hates the bad that capitalism brings!

  • Forgot one part, and buy our politicians.

  • The point is to collect money, duh. How else do you expect them to get disgustingly rich.

  • Too skinny? In America?

    Fucking amazing!

  • I hear you. You got all thesse idiotic mentalities running around:

    -"Size matters" well what size is that.

    -"Never enough" enough of what, the excess of the lack thereof.

    -"Can never be too thin". Except for health insurace.

    -"The bigger the better". See response above this line.

    Damn sheeple.

  • U.S.A. compared to "other" countries with Universal Health Care? ***TAX FREEDOM DAYS*** (Date "you" PAY TAXES until youre "TAX FREE"!) U.S.A.... April 13th (Date "they" PAY TAXES until "TAX FREE" with universal health care?) UK......May 14th Canada.... June 6th Germany... July 8th France...... July 16th Sweden.... July 29th NOTE: numbers do NOT reflect the NATIONAL SALES TAX "they" pay in comparison to the U.S.A. US 0%, UK 17.5%, France 20% Canada 22% (total), Germany 23% (total)
  • You have a point until you factor in insurance costs per individual in the USA. Doing that would pretty much negate the tax freedom days. It would come close to working out much the same in terms of overall $ spent by the taxpayer. Universal care, as Cenk has pointed out, would cover you regardless of your illness and you never have to worry about caps, limits or pre-existing conditions. Tax freedom day is great but then you have premiums for health ins. The other countries don't.

  • Crypt,

    Really? Just think about LOOSING 20% of your income to taxes on the things you buy day to day!

    And did you know that Nancy Pelosi, House Dem Leader is proposing that very thing for here in the U.S.?

    So... if you buy a car... you'll pay TT&L... but under the Dem's plans of a National Sales Tax... expect 20% MORE taxes to be paid when you buy that car to help pay for this health care garbage!

    So... $30,000 car ends up costing around $38,000!

    Sound good to you?

  • @bigtex501

    What are you talking about? I honestly don't understand. Can you explain please. What is tax freedom days?

  • Jox

    In OUR case in the U.S.... the "average" American... will use ALL their income they earn from January 1st to April 13th to pay for taxes alone.

    Then the remaining time is what income YOU get to keep!

    They've been using this comparison for years now to show a simple fast way to compare year to year our own taxes and to compare to "other" countries as well!

    The case of "other" countries that have Universal Health Care.. it's important to see they pay dearly in taxes for it!

  • Ahh I see. Thanks for clarifying I honestly never heard of that before.

    I live in Canada... I really don't mind paying longer for health security for myself and fellow Canadians.

    Are those stats accurate when you consider how much you guys pay extra for private health insurance? Where did you get your stats? Are there any metrics when you factor in private health insurance?

    I am curious to see the stats :)

  • Jox,

    You can google .. tax freedom days .. and find out all you like!

    And there are no stats on factoring in the health insurance since, at least for now, it's not "MANDATED" upon us like other countries do... which they pay for with the additional National Sales Tax!

    I'm far happier to have the "option" of choosing what I will buy with my money than being forced to buy something I don't want to buy!

    & it's cheaper to get "catastrophic" coverage and pay out of pocket for the little stuff!

  • We are not forced into a basic right of equal health. I know if I get sick, my country will help me... no matter what is in my bank account.

    Don't get me wrong... I do understand what you mean and agree with the argument.

    Thanks for the info.

    :P

  • Jox,

    However, the current plans by the Democrats removes those options and will force everyone to get the coverage that the government MANDATES!

    Even more.. for those that have "cadilac" plans or the best plans.. they'll be paying in an additional 40% more in taxes because they have TOO much coverage!

    Then we have the little problem of the taxation for the health care starting NEXT YEAR... BUT... the plans won't start until 2015 / 2016?

    Now you can see why so many people here are angry!

  • I hear ya. I think we can both agree that the proposal as it stands is not satisfactory. I am leaning towards universal health care because... well... I know it works for us up here in Canada. Canada is different than America of course, so you guys need to find a way that works for your society.

    In Ontario we privatized Hydro and created middlemen between the consumer and the actual utility.... we now pay hundreds of dollars more per month for electricity!

    ...fucks sakes.

  • Aghhhhhhhhhh! As a Canadian I find being ranked #30 for healthcare embarrassing. USA, should be a world leader: ranked #37 (all based on WHO). The answer is sooooo simple - public option. I'm cheering for you guys - ya better get this!

  • What's next. Someone denied health insurance for being too ugly?

  • @

    Timmy23413

    That's a strong possibly, The USA needs Universal Heath Care and more regulation on the private heath insurers.

  • So, the Insurance industry is not against those 2% getting a public option then?

  • "we have the most effective health care system in the world"

    wow so wrong

  • other countries spend less but cover more people. america spends 16% of our budget on health care, the next country that spends that much is canada at 11% and they cover more people. Alot of other countries are spending less than 10% and they able to cover all of their citizens. how come america cant cover everyone with 16% of the budget?

  • "Alot of other countries are spending less than 10% and they able to cover all of their citizens. how come america cant cover everyone with 16% of the budget?"

    Social Security checks could be a big part of the problem. Can't give out retirement money to 65 yearolds if the average life span is 80 and quickly approaching one hundred. Then the republicans want to talk about free loaders and ignore the old who don't work!

  • majorpiss,

    You left out the VAT that other countries pay! Take France... their National Sales Tax ALONE is 20% on TOP of their other forms of taxation!

    And... did you know that Nancy Pelosi is talking about starting a NST here in America to the tune of 20% on almost everything you buy to pay for this health care garbage? And this does NOT replace any of the existing taxes we currently pay!

  • society will be judged on how you treat your weakest people.

    Why not put the handicap parking at the back of the store and forget giving up your seat on a bus or train to a senior too bad oldie! Tuf luck

    If you leave health care the way it is, it will rot America from the inside out.

  • fucking body mass index is bullshit. when are doctors going to stop endorsing this arbitrary oversimplification

  • lol there are no companies that make shoes in America.  they are all foreign

  • So what happens if you have a dwarf child? That neither meets height or weight chart? Thats insane.

  • Scale the doctors use to say if someone is fat or not is bull shit they just take your height and weight into consideration... according to that chart I am considered to be over weight... However when they did my fitness test in lifetime they actually pinched and measured my fat and I was considered to be in an excellent shape because I have a lot of muscle :) .

  • my last post should have read healthcare for profit should be illegal...

  • @

    hellshade2

    I have to disagree with you, even with national heath care you still want options. It would be best if the government imposed more laws and regulation on private heath care insures so that they can not screw you over.

  • healthcare for profit is illegal, with all the republican bullshit about death panels it's the health insurance companies actually doing it.

    they decide who lives and who dies all for the almighty dollar. what's your life worth? because the insurance companies are putting thier own price on your life....

  • This whole country can go to hell in a hand basket...that we as citizens allow companies to get away with this...and we think we've accomplished something by graduating college and working for these assho**s and never standiing up to them

  • What's next? A kid can't get health care because he is not raised in the same religion as the person who determines who gets health care?

  • Bloodsuckers when will they learn? so intelligent but yet not a heart to be found...

  • first fat,now skinny what next??? because they luv mj a lot ??? i surely do so i hope i don't get denied healthcare

  • "MJ"? AKA pot and weed? What does wacky tobaccy have to do with this?

  • burn in hell mj is awsome the best man on earth and by far the most talented,genorous,etc i'm 10 and even i know that so shut up

  • You lost all credit when you say he's the best man on earth. Nobody is 'the best man' because that's a opinion, not fact.

  • duh everyone knows that's an opinion

  • we have mandatory insurance over here

    everyone pays, everyone gets care.

    it works.

  • Company standards? That's seriously disgusting.

  • did anyone else have to watch a progressive add before seeing the video?

    youtube is starting to suck

  • I'm pretty sure you can disable the ads in your settings. Of course, if you're not logged in, you'll probably have to sit through them.

  • Too fat, too skinny? What next, too ugly? Are the insurance companies trying to create a planet of perfect humans?

  • They are. Its called eugenics.

  • you can do something about a babies weight. I was a skinny shit when i was like 1 or 2 so my mom got some medication that made me hungry as hell. It was minty and my appetite would go through the roof when i would have it.

  • This is absurd on just about any level.

  • you are a horrible person, I hope you die of cancer while your health insurance denies you your coverage

  • yeah, how about you go to hell DUMBASS.

  • you are heartless. "You look like a angel Talk like a angel but you act like a demon.

  • you made a funny

  • wow, you used 2 words used to portray your enemy. "Liberal" "Commie"

    haha It always seems like you "Conservative" dicks come up with a new name everytime.

    Why don t you hop into your big gas hog truck and be afraid of the world around you.

    And don't forgot to wear your little flu mask and watch around with an undeserved sense of accomplishment.

  • And I notice that itS always an "IST" that you people come up with.

    Back in the 80's it was "CommunIST", and then it was "TerrorIST" and now we're starting, "Radical Islamic ExtremISTs"

    haha you people are fuckin pathetic

  • Commies, terries and extremies.

  • Sarcasm homeboy,sarcasm.XD XD

  • That's an oxymoron, stupid and liberals are polar opposites.

  • then why are you always complaining about playground bullies at recess?

  • What?

  • And republicans are always fucking around on their wives usually with another man in a public toilette and stealing funds and taking kick backs from inurance companies as children die, and then saying they are above the law because god elected them to office....

    I like using you're reasoning and debating technique there is no accountability and gross generalizations are acceptable....

  • You have to be one of the biggest idiots on the planet. No wonder why you're a rethug. The lack of brain cells says it at. Your mother should of swallowed..

  • Did you even watch the video? How can someone buy health insurance when they are being barred from doing so?

  • listen dumbass he couldnt BUY insurance because the insurance company said the kid didnt meet there standards..... What a Fail Douche

  • Yeah we don't need any health insurance reform. Crap like this is totally acceptable! Everything's fine...sssshhhhhh, just go back to Gleen Beck everything's fine. Oh yeah, and SOCIALISM! There, that should hold you over for a while.

  • I had a student plan through United Health Care. It sucked. I read all the literature and I could swear to high heaven that it looked like a pretty decent plan with doctor visit copays and prescription coverage/etc but when I actually tried to USE it, it fucking blew. I was prescribed sleeping medication (generic ambien, nothing special) by an in-network doctor (they didn't cover the visit for some reason) and they wouldn't pay for the small dose of generic ambien i was taking. Not at all..

  • *applause*

  • while i was watching this video i got a call saying i cant get physio coverage for my rotator cuff problem...awesome.

  • WORD!!!

  • I really don't get it - how is it insurance companies make big money for sick and dying people - when we pay their salaries (bailout),

     And was this child trying out for americas next top model or .... Come on America wake up and get the NHS and stop being last in healthcare for all. GEEEZ

  • why would these ins. co. being doing ridiculous things like this while we are discussing a need for change. they always say everything is fine, but it is obviously not. they slap the american people in the face over and over again.

  • Feed her bacon for a week, she should be fine.

  • I guess this gives a whole meaning to "survival of the fittest". And to think they are against evolution, oh, the irony.

  • I love the NHS and its a shame america has been lied to by Fox news and the republicans. The british healthcare system is very good and we feel utterly insulted when americans critisize it after all we are ranked more than 30 positions ahead of them according to the UN and what right to they have to critisize our healthcare system.

  • It's because in our political system whoever has the money has the power. It's backwards, we fear our government you guy's make the government fear you. I also really like the "vote of no confidence" option you guys have.

  • Agree with warrenoc. Our British healthcare system has it's flaws BUT at least we get our care without having to worry about $10,000 if we have an accident. Fox news was so desperate to derail the healthcare debate they got some posh asshole to decry our system. They need to take a good hard long look at their own.

  • NHS covers 100% of people

  • i know, when will these idiots realise its the best resource a country can have.

    i mean they dont get that we can still have private insurance if we choose but having the nhs there assures you of high quality treatment no matter what.

    grow up america and join the civilized world

  • bingo! that IS the whole point of health insurance!

  • oklahoma has health care for childre free so i dont know why inhofe is being such a faggot probably racism because this is oklahoma

  • Too fat, too skinny....

    Fuck the Insurance companies...

  • How much will the wars in the middle east cost over 10 years? No, make that 20 years. Lets not forget the human cost of taking care of the war vets. Since we are throwing number$ around 3 Trillion and counting. Everything cost$ but what is more valuable? The great equalizer here is that everyone gets sick, but going to war is a choice.

  • And I see you block comments to your page...

  • You are a spamer

  • "Then WHY have the Democrats....

    PROHIBITED and voted "DOWN" several times from We The People having a chance to read the proposals prior to obamer signing them into law?"

    They haven't, the bills are on the internet, free for you to read and download. Don't make shit up and expect people to not call you on it, by the way.

  • Dyl,

    Bills on the internet??? LMAO!!

    Do keep up with the news... even from the liberal news outlets... the bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee ADMITTED there is NO actual bill written that they voted on!!!!!

    Feel stupid yet??? YOU SHOULD! LOL

  • "the bill passed by the Senate Finance Committee ADMITTED there is NO actual bill written that they voted on!!!!!"

    Are you completely retarded, or just partially? IF THERE'S NO FUCKING BILL, THERE IS NOTHING TO FUCKING VOTE ON.

    The health reform bill is on the goddamn internet. This is common knowledge. Maybe you haven't heard of Google?

  • Dyl,

    But I'm here to help ya out...

    Google.....

    Washington Times Democrats block GOP demand for more time

    This is the article showing YOUR buddies voting AGAINST allowing at least 72 hours to read the bills!

  • dude.

    serious. ignorance. even rush limbaugh has the bill available on his site. epic fail troll.

  • ok so bigtex is retarded....and yes the bill is open to reading....secondly you are not "STUCK WITH" it ...it is simply a public OPTION. ie you can still use private healthcare if you want (though private healthcare companies are scared shitless because the government wont need the ridiculous profits, and can offer healthcare cheaply)

    Ps where do you get your estimates from lol? public healthcare (like it is for just about every first world nation) is massively cheaper. U fool.

  • maybe they meant the baby was too tall, need to be shorter to be in the normal range of 22lbs.

  • Wtf?

    Some messed up world we have here

  • baby=to fat

    kid=to thin

    freedom of being who you are?

  • Fat kids, Skinny kids, even kids that climb on rocks

  • At least she can get rich working for Ralph Lauren later in life.

  • haha thats great

  • America land of free doom!

  • best, comment, ever

  • Amerriccca FUCK YEAH!!!!!!

  • ....also , if it was critical for this kid it should see a doctor even more often....

    i saw logic somewhere....hm....,if in a catalog or harrods 2. floor i dunno.

  • Here's one for you, my brother in laws insurance requires them to call for approval before an ER visit, or they wont pay.

    So if one of kids gets hurt, you're supposed to call for approval before going to the ER.

    Someone should really tell them the E stands for emergency.

  • Polls say that a majority of Americans want a public option. If this Democratic majority Congress and the Obama administration pass a health care reform bill WITHOUT a public option then they will have FAILED. A health care reform bill without a public option is NOT reform. Better to pass nothing at all than a bill without a public option.

  • I wish I owned an insurance company. I'd put a policy for only healthy people and if you get sick or hurt we don't pay. We only want your money. I'd call it Aetna or United Healthcare or Cigna or Blue Cross Blue Shield.

  • Just the fact that they don't cover every single person seems amazingly brutal to a european person.

  • Right on, Cenk! It's also ridiculous that these insurance companies aren't even allowing the parents to pay a higher premium to reflect the added "risk" -- those families are just shut out completely, so the insurance companies can keep their profits high. It's a farce to suggest that any insurance companies actually care about "health" or medical services beyond the legal minimum, to maximize the corporations' bank accounts. Conservatives who want to keep the status quo are downright evil.

  • How can anyone justify being against a public option when we see clearly that PRIVATE insurers are flat-out saying no? This is mind-boggling. If everyone had a private option, at least then you'd have some sort of a case (a weak one, but a case). But here the private companies are saying, 'no, we won't insure you.' Um... hello! This is proof that a public option is not only needed -- it's completely necessary.

  • The parents of that anorectic baby should contact Ralph Lauren, they could probably get her a modeling contract.

  • I really REALLY hope you guys in the USA would get a decent healthcare system, shit like this is ridiculous.

  • any little excuse they can use to fuck you over...

  • Health insurance fascism. Real fascism with real victims. Happening on our watch (and with our silent consent) in the good ol' USA.

  • 2 words: Death Panel

  • Yeah, I guess insurance companies are just privatized death panels.

  • Obamacare will save us!!

  • You think? I am not sure your country is ready to be saved. I don't want to offend but sometimes when I see things like this, it almost seems like you guys are living in the stone age. Can one administration really change things and drag you into the present? I am skeptical.

  • Of course one president can't right every wrong. But he can change a lot and despite all the bitching and moaning people do he's been doing an excellent job. Especially considering the amount of dead weight he's dragging along, not to mention the ludicrous behaviour of his opposition party.

    People who thought he could fix every problem Bush created, and in his first year in office (it hasn't even been that yet) really, really don't get it.

  • People forget it's President Obama not King Obama. He can't snap his fingers and fix stuff.

  • Exactly. Republicans try to fuck him up at every turn then bitch, "WHERE'S THE CHANGE YOU PROMISED US, HUH OBAMA?!"

    Well, he wasn't talking about turning America into a fucking utopia overnight, kids. He was talking about universal healthcare, fixing foreign policy problems - all the shit the GOP is trying to slow down.

  • exactly

  • But thats my point. What you are calling dead weight, seems to be about half of your people. It seems an almost impossible task to fix even one problem when half your people seem completely committed to making sure the president fails and the country falls.

    Its almost as if they are saying "if we cant be in charge, we are going to destroy the country". It just blows my mind.

  • It looks like the rest of the country like to ride on the wave of the successes of progressive ideas as evidence that they are hard working and intelligent. This is how you win from keeping people ignorant

  • pretty much

  • well, why don't we have accidental insurance and medical insurance? of which medical insurance would be more of course... has anyone thought of this?

  • They do have accident insurance. It's called AFLAC insurance. As their slogan goes, "if you get hurt and miss work, it wont hurt to miss work" Sometimes the kids get it at school for a twenty four hour policy or just a policy to cover injuries at school or school functions.

  • MegaVolcano took the words out of my mouth.

    Deciding who gets to LIVE based on preconceived physical attributes was the staple of Hitlers Germany.

  • Rofl USA is turning into something like SPARTA! .."if the baby was to skinny,sickly or misshapen...he would be dissgarded!!"

  • As much as the Conservatives defend the current Insurance industry and call Obama a Nazi for wanting to change it, isn't it ironic that those very insurance companies are practicing Nazi behaviors with their "doesn't meet company standards" with the people they insure?