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August 12, 2009
Real Life 'Death Panels' - Part 2
The best estimate of the annual death toll among Americans of working age due to lack of insurance or under-insurance is at least 20,000, according to studies conducted over the past decade by medical researchers, and is almost certainly rising as more and more people lose their coverage as costs continue to go up.
20,000 deaths per year. Put in terms that even the wingnuts can understand: that's the equivalent of more than six and a half 9/11 attacks every year. And we spare no expense in the government-run program to smoke out evildoers, right?
But what I hear a lot of via email is that these people should get a job and stop freeloading.
Filed under: 9/11 || Healthcare
Posted By Bob Cesca | August 12, 2009 9:00 PM
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You said it. "...these people should get a job and stop freeloading." And by "these people", we who they mean.
The misconception that this is going to provide free health care, like the evil socialists, is part of what has them riled up. The idea that someone completely undeserving of help will get some. It doesn't matter that it's not free, that you'll still have to pay a premium, just not an obscenely large one. They believe that this is just one more Democrat attempt to allow minorities to freeload. And those people don't deserve it!
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at August 12, 2009 9:38 PM
We need to start talking about domestic terrorism and crimes against humanity (that's right) in reference to the health care industry. Let's tell it like it is. Close to 2,000 Americans die each month of preventable and/or treatable diseases only because they cannot afford medical care.
Where is the outrage? Where's the flag-waving, and freedom and democracy sloganeering when it comes to these innocent victims of our home-grown terrorism?
Posted by: Elizabeth at August 12, 2009 10:08 PM
And just how is the healthcare industry denying coverage not an infringement upon the inalienable rights of all to Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness? First and foremost of these is Life, right? Aren't Governments instituted among Men to Secure these Rights? It's not like they offer an a completely incidental service like a free carwash with every fill up. No, they offer a service that is fundamental, yet it's almost as if the health insurance people think they are manufacturing and providing transistor radios to people.
Posted by: ZIRGAR at August 12, 2009 10:32 PM
They don't believe that health care is a right. Property rights are more sacred to them than the health of their fellow Americans. Their right to carry a gun on their hip is more important to them than the right to health care.
Maybe that's the argument that needs to be made to them. You can't play with your property or intimidate minorities with your gun if you're sick and unable to get health care.
Posted by: Nanotyrannus at August 12, 2009 11:06 PM
>>And we spare no expense in the government-run program to smoke out evildoers, right?
Easy Commie!!! I like my 6 Billion Dollar Muslim Cave Flaming Devices. If I get hurt at least I am covered by the VA or Army(Government) Medicine. OMG...I have socialized medicine.
Posted by: GItheJOE at August 12, 2009 11:13 PM
No insurance so just get a job? Besides the fact that most of the uninsured work there is this:
On what basis do these people think we have a RIGHT to insurance from a corporation? I thought the wingnuts were all for protecting corporations and the sacred bottom line. How in the world does expecting their employer to provide them with health care fit in with the fantasy that they are so responsible that no one takes care of them?
Posted by: eve at August 12, 2009 11:18 PM
