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Freepers, Birthers, Morons of all stripe, You didn’t get mad…
You didn’t get mad when the Supreme Court stopped a legal recount and appointed a President.
You didn’t get mad when Cheney allowed Energy company officials to dictate energy policy.
You didn’t get mad when a covert CIA operative got revealed.
You didn’t get mad when the Patriot Act got passed.
You didn’t get mad when we illegally invaded a country that posed no threat to us.
You didn’t get mad when we spent over 1 trillion (and counting) on said illegal war.
You didn’t get mad when over 10 billion dollars just disappeared in Iraq.
You didn’t get mad when you saw the Abu Ghraib photos.
You didn’t get mad when you found out we were torturing people.
You didn’t get mad when the government was illegally wiretapping Americans.
You didn’t get mad when we didn’t catch Bin Laden.
You didn’t get mad when you saw the horrible conditions at Walter Reed.
You didn’t get mad when we let a major US city drown.
You didn’t get mad when the deficit hit the trillion dollar mark.
You finally got mad when.. when… wait for it… when the government decided that people in America deserved the right to see a doctor if they are sick. Yes, illegal wars, lies, corruption, torture, stealing your tax dollars to make the rich richer, are all ok with you but helping other Americans… well fuck that. That about right? You know it is.
You people have all lost your fucking minds. You are selfish, greedy, obnoxious, narcissistic, and frankly… stupid. Your pathetic little misspelled protest signs are embarrassing. Maybe you ought to find the smart person in your midst and let them make up all the signs, cause man, you look like a bunch of idiots. Also you’re ugly and your mother dresses you funny.
THE REAL DEATH PANELS!
Posted on Aug 13, 2009
By Joe Conason
When Republican politicians and right-wing talking heads bemoan the fictitious “death panels” that they claim would arise from health care reform, they are concealing a sinister reality from their followers. The ugly fact is that every year we fail to reform the existing system, that failure condemns tens of thousands of people to die—either because they have no insurance or because their insurance companies deny coverage or benefits when they become ill.
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 the number is almost certainly rising as more and more people lose their coverage as costs continue to go up.
They die primarily because they didn’t have the coverage or the money to pay doctors and thus delayed seeking treatment until it was too late. They don’t get checkups, screenings and other preventive care. That is why uninsured adults are far more likely to be diagnosed with a disease, such as cancer or heart disease, at an advanced stage, which severely reduces their chances of survival.
This isn’t news. Seven years ago, the Institute of Medicine found that approximately 18,000 Americans had died in 2000 because they had no insurance. Using the same methodology combined with Census Bureau estimates of health coverage, the Urban Institute concluded that the incidence of death among the uninsured was enormous. Between 2000 and 2006, the last year of that study, the total number of dead was estimated to have reached 137,000—a body count more than double the number of casualties in the Vietnam War.
The Institute of Medicine also found that uninsured adults are 25 percent more likely to die prematurely than adults with private health insurance, and other studies have warned that uninsured adults between the ages of 55 and 64 are even more prone to die prematurely. A lack of health insurance is the third-leading cause of death for that age cohort, following heart disease and cancer.
All those appalling figures, which are real rather than mythical, do not include the casualties of insurance company profiteering—namely, all the people, including small children, who perish because of the anonymous “death panels” that deny or delay coverage to consumers.
Perhaps the most notorious case in recent years was that of Nataline Sarkisyan, the 17-year-old leukemia patient whose liver transplant was held up by insurance giant Cigna HealthCare. She died for no reason except to protect Cigna’s profit margin, but her unnecessary and cruel demise was hardly unique.
Research by the American Medical Association found that the nation’s largest insurance companies deny somewhere between 2 percent and 5 percent of all the claims submitted by doctors. That rough estimate is the best available because private insurers are not required to reveal such statistics (although they certainly maintain them), and the government does not collect them.
But in June, a House Energy and Commerce Committee investigation found that three major insurance companies—Golden Rule, Assurant and WellPoint—rescinded the coverage of at least 20,000 people between 2003 and 2007 for minor errors, including typos, on their paperwork; a pre-existing condition; or a family member’s medical history.
“They try to find something—anything—so they can say that this individual was not truthful,” said Rep. Henry Waxman, the California Democrat who oversaw the committee probe. He warned that insurance companies launch these nitpicking inquisitions whenever a policyholder becomes ill with a certain kind of condition—usually a costly and deadly one, such as ovarian cancer or leukemia. The result is denial and loss of coverage—and we now know that means increased mortality for innocent people.
So, who are the members of the death panels?
You can find them among the corporate bureaucrats who concoct excuses to deny coverage and throw the sick off their rolls. You can find them among the politicians and lobbyists who have stalled reform for years while people died. You can find them among the morons who show up to shout slogans at town halls rather than seek solutions. And you can find them among the cable and radio blabbers, who invent scary stories about reform to conceal the sickening truth.
Joe Conason writes for The New York Observer.
There’s a window of OPPORTUNITY? Now to take back our country!
Now that the Republican House of cards has crumbled, let’s not waste the opportunity, perhaps it might be the only opportunity, to restore the Constitution and give Americans their country back.
It’s pretty simple really, give the country back to the people. Strap down the lobbyists with very limited accessibility to the D.C. window. Have public funding of all campaigns with no loopholes. Take our right back to print our own money, trash the Federal Reserve (private corporation) by enforcing President Kennedy’s executive order 11110. Abolish the electoral college, it is no longer a viable mechanism for electing our President. Enforce the Anti-Trust laws on the books, there are too many monopolies that have destroy competition, the fundamental backbone, at one time, of capitalism. Stop funding the clandestine operations of the CIA with drug money. Break down the CIA into a much smaller Department, with extreme oversight. Treat all countries people, equally and fairly, we are tied too closely with Israel, and Israel is too involved with our corporate underground. Let the truth be revealed about 911 and Israel involvement with that. Rescind the Patriot Act, the most diabolical set of measures ever enacted to subvert the Constitution. End the privatization of our governmental responsibilities. Do all this and abolish all the legislation and executive orders of the worst criminal this Nation has ever known. It needs to be done in case the former winners come back and we won’t then have a chance to do it. Don’t let them come back and write their history in OUR history books!
Sarah Palin, Who would be President?
This is so funny! It’s scary!! We need someone who can think, cmon people, the Nation and the World is at stake.
US Congresspeople Told Martial Law Would Be Imposed if Bailout Bill Didn’t Pass
The liars and crooks of the Bush Administration told certain Democrats and Republican House of Representatives that if they did not pass the Bailout bill they could face Martial Law being declared by the President! Unbelievable gall, the treachery and deceit of these people is beyond comprehension, I guess that is why so many of you are blinded by the truth. I hope you wake up before it’s too late.
Iraqi Woman Interview That You Wont See on American Media
The corruption of the Republican Party and this administration has led us down this slippery slope, wasting lives, war profiteering and now ruining the American Economy. People please wake up.
