| 120 People a Day looks like a typical Townhall Meeting (old style meetings)
Nada! Oops! See Ya!
120 People a Day looks like a small town rally
Oh well, it was nice knowing ya!
120 People a Day looks like an average College Lecture
Insurance? you don't need no stinking Insurance -- Just Don't Get Sick!
Cold hard Facts are a funny thing -- they are generally boring, and not much fun to cover. Talking about
Facts is the quickest way to get most people to change the channel!
Yet Facts are what modern advanced societies -- are supposed to be based on ...
Here are the Facts, Alan Grayson was trying to get us to focus on:
Health Insurance
and Mortality in US Adults (pdf)
Andrew P. Wilper, MD, MPH, Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, Karen E. Lasser, MD, MPH, Danny McCormick, MD, MPH,
David H. Bor, MD, and David U. Himmelstein, MD
[pg 1]
The United States stands alone among industrialized nations in not providing health
coverage to all of its citizens. Currently, 46 million Americans lack health coverage.1 Despite repeated
attempts to expand health insurance, uninsurance remains commonplace among US adults. Health insurance
facilitates access to health care services and helps protect against the high costs of
catastrophic illness.
[pg 6]
Conclusions
Lack of health insurance is associated with as many as 44789 deaths per year in the United
States [...] Despite widespread acknowledgment that enacting universal coverage would be life
saving , doing so remains politically thorny.
At the time of this research, all authors were with the Department of Medicine at Cambridge
Health Alliance, affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA.
Hmmmm? Doctor's in favor of Universal Health Care -- Who Knew?
Doctors strongly In Favor of the Public Option, just like the Nation
The Facts are out there -- Too bad just speaking the Facts -- DOESN'T GET YOU HEARD in today's modern
"profit-based" media!
Well, when "vitriol" is the coin of the realm, Using it is one sure fire way to get heard! Just ask Bachman,
Beck, and Limbaugh, and Cantor, and
Boehner, and Coburn, and Hannity and Palin and ...
just ask any Republican -- they're experts at this "game" ...
Meanwhile, What does 120 People a Day DYING looks like, anyways? ... What does even 12
People a Day look like -- that about the size of an average social clique
Just don't ask your Corporate Media -- because they don't much care either ... They chase
scandal -- Not Tragedy!
120 Stories ending each day -- and no one is listening ... not yet, anyways.
afterall ... They're only numbers ... the Unemployed, the Uninsured, the Unnecessary Deaths
... They're only AMERICANS!
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