Well the debate is now over in Las Vegas. It seems that all three candidates (sorry Kucinich fans) conducted themselves in a professional manner (unlike their Republican counterparts recently). A whole host of issues were covered and those that watched it had the chance to learn a lot about what the candidates stand for. NBC did an o.k. job except for a few of their "narrative" questions but the candidates rebuked them and kept the debate on the issues instead of focusing on gender and racial issues.
So it went off smoothly, but do you remember when the Nevada Democratic party was going to let Fox News host the event? Thank god they didn't. Over on the Faux News channel they covered the issue of John Edwards and Nataline Sarkisyan's death on the 'blonde bimbo show' (my apologies to non-Fox news blonde bimbos) yesterday and it reminds us exactly what type of network Fox is.
From RawStory:
"How irresponsible of Edwards to exploit this situation for his own political gain," scolded Colwin. "Cigna did their due diligence."
Kugel pointed out that the company eventually relented, amid heavy protests from nurses unions, and agreed to pay for a transplant for Sarkisian, whose liver had failed due to treatments for relapsed leukemia. The company's decision came too late, though, and Sarkisian died late last year.
"That certainly does show that they did have the capability of paying for it," she said, arguing that it proves the family's case in a lawsuit against the insurer.
The Kelly's Court segment ended with a final word from the host, brushing over other complaints about insurance company penny-pinching to get in one last dig at the third-place Democratic presidential candidate.
"It is not clear at all that Cigna is to blame here," Kelly scolded. "And for John Edwards to make it a campaign issue before all the facts are in makes him sound more like the med-mal [medical malpractice] lawyer he was for years, and less like a presidential candidate."
I'm sorry, is Kelly being paid by Cigna for this crap? Or does Roger Ailes have a tight friendship with Cigna and the health insurance industry as a whole? The facts show that Cigna was grossly negligent in this case as they are in many others, because the bottom line is that insurance companies care more about their bottom lines than they do about the patients they are supposed to be insuring.
As for Edwards making this a campaign issue, he is wholly in the right to make it a major issue, because Americans are sick and tired of being treated like commodities by corporations that take advantage of people whenever and wherever they can.
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