Dick Cheney — Here’s $8,000 — Keep Yourself Alive (Good Luck)
July 11, 2011 at 8:58 PM Leave a comment
Former vice president Dick Cheney is trying to avoid a sixth heart attack – with the help of a battery-operated turbine.
Powered by battery packs strapped to Cheney’s chest, the ‘Left Ventricular Assist Device’, a turbine implanted near his heart’s major chamber, pumps blood into his aorta and circulates it throughout his body.
Fitted a year ago after his fifth heart attack, its rotor spins between 8,000 and 10,000 times a minute, lifting the strain on his weakened organ.
In a rare outpouring Cheney hailed advances in American medical science.
‘I’ve been extraordinarily fortunate to live in a place and a time when all that was going on,’ he todl [sic] the Wall Street Journal.
So, how much does all of this cost Dick? Hundreds of thousands of dollars?
After all, your Paul Ryan wants us peasants to get by on an $8,000-a year health insurance stipend.
Yo, Dick, try doing that and we’ll talk again in six months.
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