Suggestions for signs at town hall mtgs??

[LiberalFighter]

I've come up with 3 possible signs below:

Sign 1
Health Care is a Human Right
and a Constitutional Right

We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Sign 2
Health Care is Broke
When Insurance Companies

Determine who is covered
Diagnose treatments
Deny claims
Increase their profits

Sign 3
If we have the best Health Care.

Then why do 36 other countries:

Spend less than the United States for health care?
Have better health care than the United States?

They all would fit on a sign about 12x20

[madmax]

1. Great signs n/t

[justgamma]

2. Here are some of my ideas.

Plus I think I'll take a "donation" jar with some pennies in it. That's how we pay for "the best health care in the world"

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6294491&mesg_id=6294491

[Holly_Hobby]

3. Draw a phone, below it, "Clue phone...it's for you"

Or is that too mean?

[Orsino]

4. "Shut up, sit down, and wait your goddamned turn." n/t

[BlueIdaho]

5. No Reform = $5000 deductables.

[polichick]

6. "Turn in your socialist Medicare card here." nt

[quantass]

7. "The GOP wants to repeal Medicare!"

[crazy_vanilla]

8. check this out - hilarious

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=6288293&mesg_id=6288293

[quantass]

9. "80%+ of us want Public Health care Option -- Washington, are you listening?"

[crazy_vanilla]

10. i'll take the Public Option nt

[Life Long Dem]

11. They'd have a good fit alright.

They are having a tantrum as we speak! They pull the same lies and deception over and over again just like the last 8 years with Bush's lies.

[RepublicanElephant]

12. insurance company bureaucrats = death panels

insurance company denials = death panels

[LiberalFighter]

38. That would be good...

Try it this way.


We already have death panels.

We call them insurance companies.


or


We are trying to abolish death panels.

They are called insurance companies.

[Hekate]

13. "Bake Sales for Your Kid's Chemo? How's that for a plan?!"

Having the high school football team shave their heads in solidarity just doesn't cut it when the family is going bankrupt.

Hekate

[sunnybrook]

14. How about the obvious

Rosa Parks sign... Oh I forgot that is unfair and may incite violence

[onestepforward]

15. My idea:

18,000 Americans die each year
because they don't have health insurance.

Every month = 1500 Americans die
Every week = 346 Americans die
Every day = 49 Americans die
Every hour = 2 Americans die

When did this become "OK" in America?




I'm sure there would be a better way to structure this but maybe it will spark an idea.

[backscatter712]

16. Astroturf sponsored by Aetna, Cigna and Blue Cross/Blue Shield. n/t

[backscatter712]

17. Insurance death panels kill 18,000 each year. n/t

[depakid]

19. New numbers- 22,000 deaths, 52 million+ uninsured

http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/january/make_that_22000_uni.php

http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2009/06/02/52-million-uninsured-americans-by-2010/

[onestepforward]

20. Thanks for the updated numbers.

I saw on one website that it might even be as high as 40,000. Heartbreaking numbers.

[ellie]

18. I was thinking about

I demand the right to go bankrupt from health care costs!


Just to be a smart ass.

[leftstreet]

21. **THE INSURANCE COMPANIES WANT TO TAKE AWAY YOUR GUNS**

[madamesilverspurs]

22. Here's mine

[Lorien]

23. "Did Jesus only heal the wealthy insured"?

Or "would Jesus demand to see your insurance card before he healed you"/ Something along those lines might make them face their hypocrisy.

[BLUSH]

24. Rest Uninsured, America

[Catshrink]

31. The last one...

I'm not sure what you mean... if it's about feudalism it should be:

The Axix of Med-evil
Defending the Feudal System....

If you meant futile, it should be in a manner of speaking.

Don't mean to be picky, just want to help clarify. These are great signs!

[BLUSH]

33. : )

[Catshrink]

34. Maybe I'm just dense this morning...

or can't shake off my teacher's hat. But it's one or the other

feudal and manor

Or

futile and manner

Good idea though.

[LiberalFighter]

39. Damn you got some good ones.

Difficult to decide what to do.

I'm trying to put together signs that would fit on 18x21 vinyl.

I could double the size I suppose.

[Rectangle]

25. "Glen Beck told me to be hear!" n/t

[Dawgs]

28. +1. I like the idea of mocking them. I'm sure some would still think you're on their side.

:rofl:

[Rectangle]

35. Yeah, I guess I'd wear an Obama or "Liberal" t-shirt or something like that. n/t

[eridani]

26. Private Insurance Companies are Death Panels n/t

[Dawgs]

29. Another good one.

:hi:

[AngryAmish]

27. "Destroy The Repigs"

[AwakeAtLast]

30. Health Care in USA is GREAT! Until they cancel your policy.

:shrug:

[Catshrink]

32. Great suggestsion here.... one point to add:

insurance company executive compensation...

Aetna denied your claim so it could pay it's CEO $18,000,000 last year.

Cigna -- $12mil

Unfortunately, there are many to choose from:

http://www.aflcio.org/corporatewatch/paywatch/ceou/industry.cfm

[ksoze]

36. "My hovercraft is full of eels"

[ksoze]

37. "We're # 37, We're # 37 - just missed beating by Costa Rica by this much"

source: World Health Organization's ranking
of the world's health systems.

[KakistocracyHater]

40. Like the thread below "Crazy is a pre-existing condition"

or "Bi-polar isn't covered by private Insurance"

"Cancer gives you un-insurance too, if it doesn't kill you 1st"

[Drunken Irishman]

41. "Down with socialist social security & medicare!"

[madamesilverspurs]

42. Here ya go...

[blogslut]

43. How about this?

MY LIFE

Is A Pre-Existing Condition

edit: oops, fixed now :)

edit edit: actually, it makes more sense the first way