Why One Little Girl's Story Will Have You Sprinting For The Voting Booth In November

[Omaha Steve]

http://front.moveon.org/why-one-little-girls-story-will-have-you-sprinting-for-the-voting-booth-in-november/?rc=daily.share

[SoutherDem]

1. This needs to be on a billboard in all tea party districts.

Death Panels were real, Obama Cares ends them.

[Iliyah]

14. The Tea Brats wouldn't believe it

cause they think it's liberal propaganda by the liberal media, thats how brain dead they are.

[SoutherDem]

18. Good Point.

[drm604]

19. "Death Panels were real, Obama Cares ends them."

I love that slogan. Did you invent it?

[SoutherDem]

24. As far as I know

but, if someone wasn't up on the Palin claim and the real ACA I don't think they would get it, so it is preaching to the choir.

[surrealAmerican]

25. There's nothing wrong with "preaching to the choir."

It helps to insure that the "choir" shows up to vote.

[11 Bravo]

2. K&R! This needs to go viral.

[LittleGirl]

3. This needs to go viral

n/t

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. Not only would it take ...

the average physician 4,400 years to make that CEO's salary ... That salary would have provided 7,700 surgeries (assuming $100,000/surgery) like this little girl's.

I can see the ad:

The camera pans above a stadium full of cheering children and a single man standing at mid-field ... the score board is counting up by 100,000 and with every tick, a child disappears; but the man gets a a little bigger. When the stadium is quiet and a single child is sitting in the stands and the man is so engorged he cannot stand .. the voice-over: "How much is your child worth?"

[abelenkpe]

5. Please make that ad happen

It would be perfect.

[renate]

28. I like your idea of doing it visually

Nearly eight thousand children is too big a number to try to imagine effectively. Seeing real faces (even if they're actors) would really demonstrate how absolutely sickening the number of people lost to insurance assholery is.

[tclambert]

6. The CEO made $770M? He must have worked through lunch some days.

He may even have worked a couple of Saturdays. Such dedication.

[longship]

10. Lunch? I go to lunch in my personal jet

After all, I've earned my position... Excuse me for a moment... Yes garcon, I'll take the fois gras and raw oysters as an appetizer...

[orwell]

7. But the ACA is pure evil...

...cause I heard it on the TV Machine!

[Honeycombe8]

8. The posts showing sick children are getting a little...overdone. Just IMO. nt

[nolabear]

12. Have you lost your ever-loving mind?

I'm not quite, thank goodness, speechless. A "little overdone"? Trying to possibly prevent the deaths of children by not turning away but reaching out, whether it be through simply posting until maybe someone does more than they would have otherwise, is worth making you irritable. Be glad you have fingers to click, eyes to see, a functioning brain with which to feel irritated.

Sweet Mother of God...

[Honeycombe8]

13. This is the third time I've seen this exact post with this exact pic. And there have been others.

There ARE people the ACA will help besides kids.

It's called desensitization. The reason doctors don't flinch when they see patients with limbs torn off. They're used to seeing it.

[nolabear]

15. Yes, but they do something about it. They don't ask not to see the next one.

I lost my temper. But I stick by my point. Nothing is helped by asking not to be shown what is needed. If not you, then someone else.

[Honeycombe8]

16. We've seen it...we've seen it! The ACA has LOTS of benefits. No need to keep pounding on the

one aimed specifically at heart strings, over and over. An elderly person, an unemployed person, a middle aged person, a young couple, a young adult being carried on her parents policy who was injured.....the ACA will help a LOT of people.

Repeatedly showing children is so obviously aimed at appealing to sympathy, as opposed to a well-rounded effort at educating people on all the ACA will do. And has done.

This OP is valid and touching and makes an excellent point. Or it was the first time I saw. And the 2nd time I saw it. I'm just sayin'....no need to run the same thought into the ground.

[JDPriestly]

31. I spend more time on DU than a lot of people and have posted more

in recent times than your profile states that you have posted -- and I find the picture to be a moving reminder about why we have to campaign in favor of the ACA and explain the benefits of it to our neighbors who may be watching the likes of Fox News.

That's my opinion.

[Honeycombe8]

37. It IS moving. The 1st time I saw it. And the 2nd time I saw it. The 3rd time? Not so much. Are we

totally disregarding all the other people the ACA helps and will help? Or are we ONLY trying to tug at heartstrings by showing a child. The same child, no less.

If someone is really trying to show the ACA helping people, the operative word is "people." Not one child. And not just children.

It is also moving to show an unemployed person who was helped by the ACA, or an adult who now has coverage who had previously been denied ins. because of a pre-existing condition.

[FarLeftFist]

40. How did you turn a post about a sick child into a post about YOU?!

Who cares how many times YOU saw it, other people may not have. I bet 99.9% of the country has never seen this photo.

[drm604]

20. This may be the third time you've seen it but you hang out in places like DU.

I'm sure there are lots of people who haven't seen it yet, or if they have, could do with a reminder. Yes, it's preaching to the choir here, for the most part, but it's something that DUers can copy from here and post elsewhere. It's true and it's effective.

Hell, it may even give pause to some of the Freepers that troll here.

This little girl, and millions of other people, are what we are fighting for. We need to keep reminding people of that, right up to the election, and beyond.

Arguments like "I don't want to buy insurance, waaahhh" are more difficult to sustain in the face of facts like those portrayed in this image.

[Honeycombe8]

38. As you say...the ACA will help "millions of people." Not just that one child. And not just children.

It's moving and worthwhile...this story. I'm just sayin'....there's more than one story out there.

[JNelson6563]

26. This is the first time I've seen it.

[Honeycombe8]

39. I'm sure you found it as moving as I found it the 1st time I saw it. nt

[Zalatix]

33. And a thousand more pictures like it should be posted.

[Omaha Steve]

36. I hadn't seen it on DU before

IF I had I wouldn't have posted it. But since it is easy to miss important posts, it seems this reached other people that missed it before too.

[uponit7771]

17. Why? it seems to reinforce the good parts of Obamacare no?

[Spazito]

27. Wow...just Wow

[Liberal_Dog]

9. K & R

[SaveAmerica]

11. BCBS CEO earned 1.9 million in 2010; $5.2 million in 2011

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/03/annual_report_shows_how_much_e.html

An annual report released by Excellus BlueCross BlueShield on Thursday includes a list of how much it pays many of its top executives.

The report says David Klein, the Rochester-based company’s chief executive officer, took home $5.2 million in 2011, up from $1.9 million in 2010.


The compensation information is contained in the annual report Excellus submits to the state.

[Doctor_J]

29. I don't believe this

the UHC guy once made over a billion in a year - 1000 times as much as you claim Klein made in 2010. There is no way any of the Big Insurance CEO's make less than 100 million per year.

[madokie]

21. It'll put some extra spring in my steps for sure

GObama

Oh and yes we are.

[Number23]

22. Very nice

[Abra]

23. His actual compensation in 2009 was 102 million.

http://ctwatchdog.com/health/102-million-payout-to-united-healthcare-ceo-draws-outrage

Insane none the less, but with the most easily verifiable fact wrong it calls the entire thing into question. Which is sad. Someone needs to remake this with the correct number.

[Waltons_Mtn]

30. This hit me really hard.

Why? Because my daughter had the same set of PJs when she was about that age. I could see it being my little girl.

[amuse bouche]

32. Yes these stories

must be made common knowledge

[locks]

34. our children's health care

Immediately following the "news" that the House had voted to repeal the ACA (again) I turned to c-span to see the vote. To my surprise, one of the House Republicans was announcing on the floor that the Republicans had whipped the Democrats in yesterday's House golf game. There was much cheering. I wonder how many of our ill and disabled children and their parents will have to give up their country club memberships where they often play golf if the ACA is repealed.

[Mimosa]

35. Re: CEO comp $770,000,000 !!!!!!!!!!!

Nobody 'earns' that much money. Or deserves it unless he/she can bestow peace on earth, cure all ills and grant eternal life.