Be well, Mr. Cheney.

[kpete]

Did the US Taxpayers Foot the Bill for Cheney's New Heart? Yes.

...............

Be well, Mr. Cheney. Just think how much more fortunate you are that if you had not been covered in total by the U.S. taxpayers you might well have exceeded your $2 million maximum cap 30 years ago. You no doubt don't have to worry about that doughnut hole prescription drug cost that seniors must face while barely surviving on a meager Social Security check.

Be well, Mr. Cheney, knowing that all those sick days you spent in Walter Reed and at George Washington University hospitals recovering with your transplanted heart, you could be one of those struggling seniors or young American workers who are living paycheck to paycheck, wondering how they can feed their families. And they can only pray that they never become as sick as you have been because they would never in their wildest dreams have expected to get a modicum of the wonderful health care that you have received.

Sooner rather than later, possibly by June this year, Republicans will have much to cheer about if the Affordable Health Care Act is struck down by the rats/corporate/insurance company-friendly court.

Just remember this: When Dick Cheney emerges from the Intensive Care Unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia he will be a nightmarish testimony and reminder to Republican/Tea Partyers that his outstanding U.S. taxpayer-paid-for health care is destroying their freedoms and liberties.

the rest:
http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/13405


MON MAR 26, 2012 AT 11:10 PM PDT
I Just Paid for Dick Cheney’s New Heart, Now Who Will Pay for My Daughter’s?
byNancy Meyer
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/27/1078131/-I-Just-Paid-for-Dick-Cheney-s-New-Heart-Now-Who-Will-Pay-for-My-Daughter-s-

[russspeakeasy]

1. Screw you, Mr. Cheney.

[EmeraldCityGrl]

2. Not to be petty but that pump he carried around for 20 months

ran easily into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Further more, many Americans are denied
transplants because they cannot pay for the expensive anti-rejection drugs required for the remainder
of their lives.

Should Cheney reject this heart let there be no doubt there will be another one made available immediately.
We will probably never know about it, but it will be there.

[Ian David]

5. Hopefully by then, it will be paid for by The Hague. n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

8. Given he waited twenty months for this one

Not very likely.

Or did this one come, as I read here, from China? Let 's dispense with the law or organ viability, if it sounds good, why not?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

11. He was overweight and that is a huge no no

when considering survival statistics. He had to lose weight a hard thing for a heart patient unable to exercise to do.
There could have been other health issues that had to be dealt with before he was a good candidate for transplant.
He could have had a rare blood type like AB- that made finding a donor especially difficult. We will never know.
That he was on a priority list and that those lists exist I have no doubt.

[nadinbrzezinski]

12. Have you seen the latest pictures?

He lost the weight.

As his condition worsened, like every other patient, his priority status was raised last December.

No matter the conspiracy theories, some really belly laughs of funny, for once he followed the rules.

[Iggo]

3. Drop dead, Dick.

[raccoon]

4. Rec, Rec, Rec! nt

[groundloop]

6. I don't wish any ill upon anyone, however.....

I pray that Dick Cheney does some deep soul searching while he's recovering and think about what major healthcare costs do to those less fortunate than himself.

[Iggo]

9. Dude is responsible for a million dead people.

I wish the illest of ills on him.

I hope he dies naked, cold and alone, crying for his momma.

[nadinbrzezinski]

7. He is the poster boy for government healthcare

oh the irony!

Yup, already made this exact point to local RW... I fear I caused a real case of cognitive dissonance.

[Octafish]

10. It is ironic. Us non-government types would be SOL.

While Dick "Been on the Public Dole for Life" Cheney gets the best health care in the world for free.