The Bucknuts Hot Spot

For his family's sake I hope he fully recovers. That being said, he still is a Son of a Bitch who belongs in jail.

I didn't know he even had a heart. Heard on NPR he waited 20 months to get that heart transplant. Is that about the average waiting time for a heart transplant or was his time line mysteriously accelerated?

Nixon believed in government run health care and free college education! Fuck Chaney, hope it rejects the worthless piss of shit!

Absolutely not. Cheney can go to India, pay $5,000 and get a new heart ripped from the chest of a 13 year old slumdweller and stay in a resort for 2 months to recover at no extra cost. Why should medicare pay for his heart?

There is a huge difference between a shoulder replacement at 84 like your mom, who I will presume is alert and active enough to need one, and doing brain surgery on a 92 year-old with brain cancer. No one is saying you can't get whatever care you want at any age, but sorry, the government, i.e. the taxpayers, cannot afford to continue to pay for the most futile, unrealistic, expensive care possible with very little hope of a good long term outcome. Patients with dementia who wither away in nursing homes do not get better, regain their memory, remember their families and move back into their homes. If you want to continue to keep a family member alive in a vegetative state, then pay for it. Don't expect taxpayers to flip the bill for it. A shoulder replacement is a completely different animal.

Also, I do hope you understand that "Death Panels" were an invented term and idea, brought to us by the moronical Sarah Palin and it was never grounded in anyone's reality but hers.

Tim, I hate to say this, but every time you quote and post like this, your sound like a moron; stop it, you're smarter than that. Unless you are in fact Dick Cheney, I didn't take a personal shot at you. I'm hoping your mother is recovering well, but my point with Cheney was two fold; first of all, the man is of a questionable ethos, and frankly, I'm going to guess that there are probably more deserving candidates of a new heart than a 72 year old man who also happens to be in a poor general state of health - the human body only goes on for so long. My second point is that Cheney clearly has the cash to afford it, why *not* go to India to have the procedure done? It's considerably cheaper, the elite hospitals there are just as good, and you can even fly in your surgical team of choice included in your original cost - no pesky AMA regulations to deal with regarding that. To boot, for that same $5,000-ish, you are also living like a king for about 2 months while you recuperate.

There is no such thing as death panels. Do you get that? Sarah Palin invented it out of her own little pea-brain along with all her other creations from whatever distorted reality she lives in.

Conservatives love to use the "R" word- "rationing"- and insist they don't want it. Just add this to the long and ever-growing list of conservative hypocrisies. So, you want limited government spending, but you think we should provide any care at any age regardless of cost.

At some point some adults need to make decisions in this country.

News flash, conservatives- we already ration care. We pay for Dick Cheney's heart transplant instead of helping to pay for some of the 50 million uninsured to get care. That's reality.

Another news flash for conservatives- Medicare is pretty damn close to a socialist program you say you hate. The government runs it. They collect taxes from every worker who pays taxes to pay for it.

The laws in this country already make it so that a competent adult could make the decision on his or her own to take personal responsibility for not wasting government money, but just like every state takes as much as they can get from the federal government, so do most individuals.

Best wishes for your mom and a speedy recovery.

Bet he wasn't on any list! Best health care in the world if you can afford it.

Real classy.

Thanks!