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Showing Original Post only (View all)One Year Ago Today, America’s Profit-Driven Health Care System Killed my Only Son (NSFW) [View all]
Last edited Tue Jun 25, 2013, 10:23 PM - Edit history (1)
http://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2013/06/25/one-year-ago-today-americas-profit-driven-health-care-system-killed-my-only-son-asterisk-free-post/Lots of profanity, so I didn't post a snip. Today is the first anniversary of my son's death, and I am hugely pissed off.
UPDATE, 10:22 PM ET: I got a lot of feedback on other sites for being so confrontational and not "respecting" the points of view of those who favor the "free market" system. So I wrote this follow-up post:
"For those who were offended by todays post:
Put yourself in my position. If your child were dead and I advocated policies that had killed your child, what would you say to me?
I am betting youd be throwing F-bombs right back at me. And Id have it coming.
Mr. Blunt and Cranky"
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One Year Ago Today, America’s Profit-Driven Health Care System Killed my Only Son (NSFW) [View all]
riqster
Jun 2013
OP
On December 21st will be the 20th anniversary of the negligent homicide/malpractice that killed
Dustlawyer
Jun 2013
#7
Thank you! My son's cousin was born a week after him and he also has CYstic Fibrosis.
Dustlawyer
Jun 2013
#87
I'm pissed off right with you. We are disgraced as a nation for the death of your son
mountain grammy
Jun 2013
#15
You are awesome, and you say things that I am thinking but don't dare say myself.
kestrel91316
Jun 2013
#56