Rock the Vote & Perez Hilton have partnered together to create an awesome shirt (with design help from Evan @ The Bright Pursuit). The t-shirt is available for sale in our store.
Perez invited RTV over to his place to film a PSA talking about the health care issue in which he “confessed” that he went through much of his 20’s without health care. “We Can, We Will, Health Care for All” – Perez Hilton. Check out the PSA here:
~Kelly
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If you want a place to wear your RTV HC t-shirts, I recommend a health care reform rally — I went to one last night and it was terrific. Pictures here:
http://publicoption.blogspot.com/2009/09/la-health-reform-rally-9409.html
It’s unfortunate that RTV has become just another special interest group.
Riiiiiight and your “Fully Informed Juror Association” or your “FR33 AGENTS” and your weird end taxes stuff is not an interest? not special?
people who don’t take a stand aren’t participating. rtv is taking a stand for young people, poor people and people of all races. i’m proud of them you disagree get over it.
So RTV supports big brother and big Gov. Kind of a 180 for free lovin hippies.
I also went through my 20 with out medical ins. SO. Then I joined the military and EARNED health care. The Military is hiring so shut up and join and you too can get all those great Medical benifits. Oh yeah you might get shot at defending the freedoms of a bunch of free loaders
News flash — why is Glenn Beck trying to shut down a website that examines the rumor that he raped and murdered a girl in 1990?
Beck’s full complaint linked here:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/19522393/Complaint
Thanks Perez for getting involved. The idea that the greatest nation on earth has omitted a huge segment of its own population from the basic right to health care is sad. It needs to change now. The situation is dire. Not only does this run people into financial ruin (61% of all bankruptcies PRIOR to the recession cited medical bills as a main cause, of those 61%, 75% HAD health insurance!), it results in loss of life. We cannot continue to let this happen to fellow Americans while the insurance industry gets rich on our dime for providing less care.
And to the commenter who joined the military – did you know that taxpayers are paying for your healthcare? You paid in, and so does EVERYONE else so that you are guaranteed care. Sound familiar?
Reform, NOW.
Hey karly, you should actually read George’s comments. He EARNED his health care by paying taxes AND by defending your right to be ignorant. Are you going to do something other than just pay taxes? If you are so concerned about your “fellow Americans”, simply head to your nearest inner city and purchase health insurance for the first person you see without existing coverage. Use your own money if you like, but keep your hands off my money.
Perez is the perfect poster child for the health care movement. He is highly unpopular except for the lunatic fringe who doesn’t even understand basic economics or how our health care is the best in the world. Heck Cubans even risk their lives to come to America, yet idiots like Moore and Perez hold them up as shining examples of socialism.
It’s NOT a Death Panel!
(it’s a commission)
CR: you maybe missed the bit before about people who hate health care reform being old white men, because you tipped your hand
people in rural areas lack insurance
people who have lost their jobs lack insurance
young people lack insurance
that’s code when you talk about the inner city. i’m not going to and nobody else should give up the chance for all americans to have health insurance coverage because you can’t share with black people.
in b4 ‘welfare queens octomom i made my money all by myself without anyone else’s help blah blah blah’
wish I could go back and tell you to keep your dirty hands off the college loan that American taxes doubtlessly subsidized for you so that you could have your cushy desk job
So, let’s have a short discussion about evil insurance companies… the evil corporations that named by President Obama and company as target of the now-called “Health Insurance Reform” Plan. I’d love for President Obama (or anyone who is for this particular plan) to answer these 6 simple questions:
1. What is the Main purpose of running a business?
2. Would you classify a Insurance company as a For-Profit Business or a Non-Profit?
3. Would you agree that the main purpose of an insurance company is to eventually earn a profit?
4. Is it true that the Obama-endorsed “public option” would not operate for a profit as the President stated in his address on 9/8/09?
5. If an Insurance Company compete with a Public Option “company” that doesn’t have to make a profit, is that considered a fair playing field?
6. If you were an investor in an insurance company (pretend you’re a shareholder), and your stock is in an insurance company that has to compete with a public option “company” that doesn’t have to make a profit, would you be mad that your company has been put at an unfair disadvantage?
The unfortunate reality of the situation is that these are very simple questions to answer,and can provide a stunning clarity to this debate for most people, but these issues are being wholly ignored by most.
All Americans “earn” their freedom by paying taxes. You were not obligated to go into the service and the wars our generation has faced have not been fought to defend our freedom. Bush’s war was about money. 9/11 was an inside job. Call me anti-American. I say what most are afraid to think. Google operation north woods. Google loose change.open your eyes.
Health care reform is needed. Republicans oppose because their campaigns and such are funded by drug and insurance companies. Bush’s top campaign supporter was the second largest credit card collection company, in turn your ex president signed a bill that made it harder for people in debt to file for bankruptcy. So you’re making credit card payments for life.
The reform is not communistic and our health care is far from the best in the world. Young democrats and activists, our time is now.
CC, so you’re saying a couple thousand dollars is more important than peoples lives? 5/6 Americans have health insurance, republicans are not willing to change things for that one in six.
dude there are already like a million non-profit insurance companies like bluecross/blue shield and local community co-ops and the insurance companies do just fine super profitable actually super duper profitable actually
when you break it down simple like that it doesn’t make you sound any less like you drank the free-market koolaid
really insurance companies are more profitable than pretty much any industry has been recently except the banking/hedge fund types, who were doing great right up until well you know
stunning clarity ftw…….my favorite part was when you asked me to be sympathetic to ‘mad shareholders’. awwwww i’m crying fake explosive tears of hate for them
Wow CR, could you be any more hate-filled and selfish? Joining the military doesn’t equal automatic “earning” status or make anyone more deserving than the guy who worked all his life, lost his job, lost his insurance, and now has been diagnosed with cancer that has made him uninsurable in the future.
The guy in the military is serving the country, but so is almost everyone else, just in different ways. The bottom line is that anyone who joins the military is guaranteed healthcare paid for by the tax dollars of all Americans (read:socialized).
No American should die while insurance companies grow rich off of providing less care. It’s inexcusable.
As for “your” money, you don’t really have much room to talk since the war started by your party was not only senseless but a lot more expensive than something necessary for the self-proclaimed greatest nation on earth.
Finally, do you consider yourself to be a christian? I’m always astounded by the level of hypocrisy and ugly selfishness that rears its head just like this. This is a moral issue and about basic human decency. It seems as though you have none.
Re: “Concerned” citizen… So people should stay sick and keep dying because insurance companies would be treated unfairly? Since when are people less important than corporations?
And furthermore… oh yeah, it’s really “unfair.” According to all your republican friends, everything the government touches is bloated and inefficient – no one wants it because it’s such crap – so why should the poor, pitiful insurance companies feel that this is unfair or threatening to them in any way?
According to your republican friends, government run healthcare, social security, etc., are basically like letting a retarded kid run a nuclear reactor.
I’m sure your insurance company friends will have no problem using their ingenuity to devise a way to stay on top: getting rich off less care, destroying lives, paying off politicians to ignore their constituents and spending more money on lobbying than on providing care, and finding ways to deny people access to care. So much so that no one will want to use the public option… right?
Why doesn’t the president focus on banking reform, which has already sucked several trillion from the already overly burdened taxpayers?
Oh, is it because his biggest contributor is Goldman Sachs? Nah, that couldn’t be it. Each party has its own patrons; don’t kid yourself that Obama is above the fray.
Way to stay on topic, shoeless. In case you didn’t read, this article is about healthcare.
And to address your feigned concern, troll, I’m sure Obama will address any legitimate concerns in order of priority. I’m certain that Americans dying while insurance companies get rich is more important than banking reform… at least, it is to people who have souls.
More importantly, you’re a liar. Goldman Sachs is not Obama’s biggest contributor: rather, the University of California is by a longshot. Also towards the top of the list: Harvard, Google, Stanford, and IBM.
People like you are what’s wrong with this country.
Hi, Shoeless.
Classic misdirection. Every national candidate for President made a point of supporting health policy reform. Our mismanagement and submission to corporate greed is bankrupting our families and communities. It is keeping us sick when we have ample resources with which to make us well.
Every president since Nixon has attempted to make changes in our health insurance system — most have failed, while our costs skyrocketed — banking is solidly irrelevant. If Obama has been entirely bought and sold by the banking industry, and is in fact a banking industry robot designed to protect banking industry interests, we still need health reform, and we still need it NOW.
You’re an obstacle. Get out of the road.
Sorry,
Goldman Sachs was number 2. In your response, you conveniently missed Citi and JP Morgan which were ahead of both Stanford and IBM. With regards ads to why banking reform is relvant to healthcare, wouldn’t the trillions spent propping up (and continuing to prop up) the zombie banks have funded healthcare reform nicely? How about Iraq and Afghanistan? Oh, those were only a problem for Bush, right? I’m sure our increase in troop sin Afghanistan are fine now that it’s Obama’s to control.
Myopia is a plague, enhanced by the fecal matter one gets when their head is firmly entrenched in their ass. Focus on the entirety of the picture, lest you get bogged down in the details.