Brother of George H.W. Bush collapses during Wellpoint shareholder questioning

[Divine Discontent]

Source: AP

William H.T. Bush, 71, has served on the company's board of directors since 2004. He was sitting with other directors during a question-and-answer session when he moaned and rolled to his right side about an hour into the meeting. WellPoint officials cleared the room and called for help.

Dr. Rob Stone, an emergency room doctor and frequent WellPoint critic who attended the meeting, rushed with some other people to Bush. Stone said he stayed with the director until help arrived. He said Bush was alert and talking.

WellPoint, the largest commercial health insurer based on enrollment, runs Blue Cross Blue Shield plans in 14 states and Unicare plans in several others. The insurer has received strong criticism for planned rate hikes of 25 percent or more for some of its customers, and several company critics attended the meeting.

Stockholder Julia Vaughn, who was representing Citizens Action Coalition at the meeting, implored WellPoint CEO Angela Braly to continue the meeting as several people attended to Bush, who was laying on the floor.
"I don't think Angela is a nurse," Vaughn shouted while WellPoint officials tried to clear the room.



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[Ian David]

1. Did he puke on a Japanese guy? n/t

[Divine Discontent]

2. those bushes are always up to somethin....

[CountAllVotes]

3. ...

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

:kick:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

6. The classics NEVER die.

Here 'tis...the actual clip plus SNL spliced in at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XnOnDatqENo

:patriot:

[BrklynLiberal]

35. damn. I shouldn't have laughed...a least not so hard...

[Duer 157099]

4. How many fucking tentacles does that Bush clan have anyway?

Seems like they're just everywhere

[Frustratedlady]

7. You took the words right out of my mouth. First reaction, for sure.

I love your comparison to tentacles. A perfect description.

[rfranklin]

46. they have many testicles....

most of them between Barbara's legs.

[Divine Discontent]

24. spot on. and seriously, they ALL get to be on boards/lobbyists obviously - annoying fam.

[CoffeeCat]

28. Figures, they'd be involved in health-insurance...

Geez, these Bush flagnards sure know where the money is. They
always seem to get themselves within sneezing distance of where all of the dirty
money is being made. Oil...savings and loan...health insurance.

Where there is a buck to be made and an American public to be screwed,
you'll always find a Bush!

[David Zephyr]

33. Jeb will be the nominee in 2012.

Count on it.

[xxqqqzme]

47. I think the jebster will be the nominee as well.

He was promised he could be president first and he'll throw a tantrum if he doesn't get his way. He is much more evil than dimson.

[WinkyDink]

51. I've been, for years.

[driver8]

34. I was wondering the same thing. I never thought that Daddy Bush had siblings!

Oh, the humanity...

[Delphinus]

5. Cool about Dr. Stone

helping him!

[hughee99]

8. He should have first asked him to fill out some forms in triplicate

and then submit them to his insurer for approval.

[thecrow]

9. Absolutely! Then make him wait in the ER for 4 hours....

like I had to while having a stroke.

[Donnachaidh]

53. *4* hours? that's the equivalent of speed dial in some major cities

Put his ass on a stretcher in the hallway of a hospital in the Bronx. Make that hallway the same hallway the police bring gunshot wounds and drug OD's and keep his lily-white ass there for 36 hours, waiting for a bed.

And have the hospital workers ignore his pleas for the first ten hours.

That's the reality check these fuckers deserve.

[Arugula Latte]

39. "We've denied your claim. You have a preexisting condition--

You are a member of the most evil family in American history, the scourge of humanity."

[Maat]

49. +1000

HeeHee.

[Technodaoist]

10. Arrrg! My Tract!

[Botany]

11. Bucky Bush war profiteer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H.T._Bush

[Hassin Bin Sober]

17. Yep. I remember old "Bucky" cleaned up when his nephew started two wars.

[Botany]

22. just a chip off the block of daddy Prescott Bush

George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited
from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly
discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial
architects of Nazism.

His business dealings, which continued until his company's assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy
Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the Bush family by two
former slave labourers at Auschwitz and to a hum of pre-election controversy.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.secondworldwar

Good God in butter what a family

[calimary]

12. Hey, at least he doesn't have health insurance problems.

[stuball111]

13. Vaughn impolores the CEo to continue the meeting? WTF!

I guess seeing the quarterly profit projection was more important than a guy dying... even if it was just a Bush...and as far as that goes... Karma? Guilt? Irony? Or the Good Lord working on the left for a change?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

19. I think Vaughn is a critic who wanted to hammer the CEO and not let her use the collapse as excuse.

[stuball111]

23. It said she was a stockholder..

representing the Citizens Coalition.. could be the case that she wanted to raise hell, UPDATE: yeah... Citizens Action Coalition seems to be the good guys... maybe they had funds invested in Wellpoint and she wanted to keep it going...:shrug: I don't know the whole story, I admit.. mebad...

[never cry wolf]

40. If you own one share, you are entitled to attend shareholders meetings

Otherwise you cannot attend. That was the price of her ticket to get in the door and and voice her opinions.

[stuball111]

25. I think you're right...

CAC are the good guys...

[Bluenorthwest]

14. That's Bucky Bush

He's a crook of the first order.

[Monk06]

15. Obviously a preexisting condition, so claim denied. Send him to the county ER. n/t

[grasswire]

16. the jokes write themselves, with the Bushes

Geez. What a pathetic bunch. Unfortunately, I share an ancestor with them about 11 generations back.

[political_Dem]

18. I really didn't know that Prescott had more sons. It seems the world revolves around Pappy Bush.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

20. He's the quiet war profiteering one.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_H.T._Bush

In 2005, reports emerged that Bush had garnered significant profits from the sale of Engineered Support Systems, a defense contractor working for The Pentagon in Iraq and Afghanistan.<2> Further reports in 2006 corroborated these stock sales in the range of $1.9 million.<3>

[political_Dem]

29. Thanks for the information. It gave me a lot of food for thought. :)

Not only are the Bushes long-lived; they've got their fingers in the pie everywhere that has to do with weapons. Much to the world's chagrin, they won't be poor due to the fact that there's so much conflict between nations.

No wonder W. put down the UN while he was in office. It would not only benefit the Repubs that the UN was seen as being useless; the international body's futility would help the former President's family too.

Son of a gun. Nothing but ulterior motives.

There's no end to the domestic terrorism the world has to endure by that damned family. :mad:

[Ardent15]

41. Oh yes. Prescott Jr, George HW, Jonathan, and Bucky

All four are evil crooks of the highest order.

Type in "China Prescott Bush Jr", "Jonathan Bush fraud", or "Bucky Bush war profiteering".

This is a BIG crime family.

[CLANG]

21. ROFLMAO!

:toast: :party: :beer: :thumbsup: :fistbump: :headbang: :applause: :woohoo: :rofl: :spray: :popcorn:

[daleo]

26. Officials at the meeting rushed over to check his insurance status. n/t

[Hubert Flottz]

27. It's the old Kenny Boy Exit trick

So now we see who was behind Wellpoint's sabotage attempt on the health care bill.

There's a Bush behind every high dollar dirty deed in the USA!

[Festivito]

44. His face reminds me of ole Kenny boy. /nt

[catzies]

55. You mean Kenny-Boy's old face. We'll never see his new one. n/t

[truthisfreedom]

30. Those bushes are a bit wobbly, huh? w choked on a pretzel and hit his head, hw puked on the Japanese

Prime Minister, and now this guy (didn't know he existed) had his fainting claim to fame.

Must be something in the genes.

[DebbieCDC]

31. Did they check his coverage before "calling for help"?

Just askin'

[hayu_lol]

32. Don't forget that old Babs is heavily invested...

in private prisons for profit.

[defendandprotect]

48. ah . . . yes . . . Barbara Bush's "beautiful mind" at work again -- !!!

:crazy:

[IndianaGreen]

36. Bush has a preexisting condition

No insurance payments!

[AngryOldDem]

37. Indy news says that shareholders are pushing Wellpoint to go non-profit.

Dr. Stone says they are recognizing that "the old business model doesn't work anymore."

It also sounds like Braly was coming under fire with some tough questions -- there was really no reason why the meeting had to be adjourned because of illness.

[RainDog]

38. and don't forget Jonathan Bush - money launderer for Pinochet and the Sauds

and, most likely, the 9-11 hijackers.

http://www.democrats.com/node/2678

[Ardent15]

42. Prescott was the patriarch and the center.

And like any loving father, he left his ill-gotten gains to his sons, who have continued his legacy of evil.

[aquart]

43. Why? Was he struggling to tell the truth?

[UpInArms]

45. how freakin' handy that this sack of shit "rolled to the side and moaned"

to make the meeting with people who might question the crooks involved stop.

pittuey - I spit in the general direction of anyone even mildly associated with the BFEE and ... I don't care it others disagree with me - but the world will be a better place when the entire corrupt family is driven into a cave in shame and horror of being destitute when their wealth is redistributed to those they stole it all from.

[WinkyDink]

50. WHY, GOD, WHY? When will the Plague of Bushes END???

[jxnmsdemguy65]

52. The Bush family are the Romanovs of corporate controlled Amerika...

and they should suffer the same fate... the whole fuckin' lot of 'em!

[undeterred]

54. Sometimes the evil just bubbles over like an oil gusher.