Children can only believe what adults tell them. - anon

This child lost his mother at age 7. It makes sense that - au contraire

A child cannot have an adult understanding of a situation, - anon

A child of 7 can understand all too well what his mother's death means. - Marcelas appears to be

blah blah blah. Anyone who will use a kid in this way - for desperate sympathy is a stooge.nm

I most certainly did hear him speak - anon

Standing by OP. What miserable bunch of sick people - would support such ugly, ugly commentary?

And I stand by what I said, no one is picking on this child, - anon

Repeated denials do not make it so, dear. The goons comments - were despicable.

same for you, and you and I have no relationship - anon

Terribly sad - is it not?

I agree. You have to be ignorant, gullible, or both to - believe this spin. Liberals are desperate

So I take it the 2 of you think what Beck, Malkin and Lush said - is perfectly acceptable.

What you said is so ignorantly twisted, but I should - not be surprised...and if you would actually

Read transcripts. Saw videos. The cons triumvirate - hawk nothing but snake oil and venom.

Ah, I am honored to be a sheep rather than - a goat! nm

This is so ridiculous. "attacked 11-year-old boy". READ - They didnt... spinner! nm

Oh, but they did. Caught on video and by their own hand. - Cons should be ashamed of themselves. nm

Baloney. They did not attack the kid. Get over it.nm - MN

Obama health care - conservative typist

High and mighty, hate thy brother mentality. Expect nothing less - from wingnut factions. nm

You are so correct. But, dont expect them to listen. - They are brainwashed, it seems.nm

The right is no more brainwashed than the left and that is a fact! - anon

Umm.. I was talking about the left being brainwashed. - ..and they are!.nm

pointless - buckeye

Typical responses from those who - live for

A little info on your blaring headlines about Marcelas - Backwards Typist

I know some of you just LOVE the fact that I'm posting here but the facts are, the 3 commentators were attacking the dems for exploiting the boy, not the boy. I chose only a few paragraphs because his transcript is so long, but you can read it with the link I'm providing below. (FYI: I do not listen to Rush. I just decided to check up on this story). I am still NOT in favor of the whole health plan. I am in favor of parts, but now that it's up to 2700 pages, what else have they stuck in there? Pork again? Probably.

Rush:  "They do the same stuff over and over again.  Senior citizens, now some kid, they bring up a bunch of people in wheelchairs or whatever.  It's all about how this country is so rotten, people are dying and nobody cares, the country with the best damn health care in the world.  And they get up and tell lies and have other people tell lies and exploit these people.  All the tug on people's heart strings to make them feel guilty, make them feel the only way we're going to save lives is through Obama.  But we're not going to start saving lives for four years.  Here now, ladies and gentlemen, the capper on this outrage, from Senator Patty Murray.

PATTY MURRAY: It happened to Marcelas; it happens to a lot of people. The system we have in place today doesn't provide options for people when they are just at the edge. Marcelas's mom was doing all the right things, a single mom raising three little kids. She was working hard.  She lost her health care because she lost her job. Marcelas stood up and he came up to a United States senator and he's gone up to the 29th floor of the federal building and he's flown all the way across the country to face this big crew of press people, because he has the courage that his mother left him to remind all of us what this debate is about.

RUSH:  I guess I was right, this 11-year-old kid just stood up, he went to Washington somehow, flew there, then approached a US senator, then went up to the 29th floor of the federal building. He flew all the way across the country and had the guts to face the media, with all these Democrats standing beside him."

Here's the story from the Seattle Times, March 8th.  "Local Boy Who Lost Mom Takes Health Care Story to DC -- His mother, Tiffanny Owens, was working as an assistant manager at Jack in the Box when she began suffering from mysterious vomiting and diarrhea in September 2006. By October that year, she had missed so much work that she lost her job -- and her insurance. Two months later, Owens sought emergency care at Swedish Medical Center's Central Area campus, where a doctor diagnosed her with pulmonary hypertension, a serious type of high blood pressure involving the arteries in the lungs. In January, she again went to Swedish's emergency room and was hospitalized for eight days." All this without insurance. She was treated.  Repeat: She was treated, and she had no health insurance.

"Owens' mother, Gina Owens, said her daughter, who didn't qualify for Medicaid," don't know why " "avoided regular visits to a doctor despite frequently throwing up blood." She just wouldn't go.  (NOTE: Just wouln't go) "In June 2007, Tiffanny Owens was hospitalized yet again, this time at University of Washington Medical Center. After a week of unconsciousness, she died at age 27, leaving Marcelas and his two younger sisters. Gina Owens has custody of the three children." Now, the woman's mother (this Gina Owens who has now has custody) worked for the "Washington Community Action Network," an ACORN offshoot, "the state's largest consumer-advocacy group. Her death made the family's cause personal." So not ACORN.  SEIU.  She worked for the Service Employees International Union, the mother of the woman who died, again from the Seattle Times.  And also from the Seattle Times story: "Health Care for America Now" which is George Soros, Obama and SEIU, "paid to take the boy and his grandmother to DC." So the whole thing was orchestrated by the SEIU.  The boy's aunt, grandmother, whatever it is, Gina, works for the SEIU.  The SEIU... In other words, a woman who got treatment at two different hospitals without health insurance, her illness and death are being exploited by the union that her mother works for -- and now the kid's trip was paid for by the union.  SEIU and all of this, that's Obama.

And, a comment from the Seattle Newspaper from a retired RN:
Ok, I feel very sorry for this little boy losing his mother.

But, I take issue with this story. I am a retired RN, having worked at Harborview Hospital for close to 15 years. This headline implies that this young man's mother was unable to get medical care and therefore died as a result.

Swedish Hospital and the University of Washington Medical Center are TOP MEDICAL facilities! Two of the best in this country!!! What does not make sense is that the mother did not go in for check-ups. Harborview does not deny people from coming into their clinics.

Office visit fees are "peanuts" compared to the cost of hospitalization. This unfortunate woman was NEVER denied care in any hospital. I guarantee you that a social worker would have visited this young woman before she was discharged from the hospital each and every time to make sure she had post hospital clinic appointments lined up. This is standard procedure!

At age 27, with pulmonary hypertension, this woman was one very seriously ill woman. There are way too many holes in this story to be of use for promoting the current healthcare bill.

Worse yet, this article implies that our healthcare system was responsible for this woman's death. Shameful Seattle Times!!!

http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_031210/content/01125116.guest.html

The child attackers exploited Marcelas for his sympathetic appeal - on behalf of HCR, pure and simple.

Guess you didn't read the transcripts in full.Things you seem to be forgetting - Backwards Typist

Twice in 7 months, evidently not enough for terminal illness - Marcelas proudly spoke by choice...

Well, okay. I will agree with part of your post - Backwards Typist

Glenn Beck's Transcript - Backwards Typist

Again, GB is not attacking the boy. A partial transcript follows AND the link if you want to read the whole thing. So, before you all attack anyone, please, DO YOUR RESEARCH!

GLENN BECK, HOST: Apparently, the health care reform debate is going to reach its zenith this week. Is it ever going to end?

The progressives are pulling out all of the stops. But what they're saying now is that if you don't want this health care bill, you just must hate the poor. You must have absolutely no charity in your heart whatsoever.

You see, they know that you do have compassion for those who are less fortunate — because you're Americans. Americans are the most charitable people in the history of the planet by far. They know that. And that leads them to this understanding: The way to get their power is to play on that compassion. They will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Let me show you something that should disturb you on what was trotted out on Friday. Now, let me make this clear, this is a terribly sad story. This little guy who stepped up to the microphone, how do you not ache for him? What he's gone through.

But what he's being put through now — knowingly by adults — is obscene. The senators are exploiting him and it's absolutely despicable. Watch:

But even without health care, she went to the hospital and received treatment, at least two times. The second time was for eight days in the hospital. Now, how is that not having access to health care?

For whatever reason between the visits to the emergency room, she refused to go back to the doctor, despite the fact that she was vomiting blood. Was no one saying "Please go back to the doctor"?

I grew up in Washington State. Believe me, they offer a plethora of existing government assistance programs to anybody who's laid off or unemployed. If you're worker and you're unemployed, they got assistance for you. Just like Marcelas' mom.

Why didn't she enroll? Did she enroll? These are the questions that were never answered with these stories, because the answer too often doesn't fit the agenda.

Marcelas' grandmother now says that they applied for Medicaid for Marcelas' mom in the eight months between losing her job and when she died. Well, did they wait too long? If they did, can't we hurry that process up? There is something wrong with the process if that is true. But I don't know if it's true.

What I do know is: If an unemployed single mother of three can't get Medicaid, who can? Maybe that's where we should start looking to fix the system, because that's a change we can all agree on and we can change it today.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,589472,00.html