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Yeah, YOU, Senator Joe Lieberman.

I’m going to say this as s-l-o-w-l-y as possible and enunciate clearly to make this easy for you.

HEALTH CARE REFORM IS A COST REDUCTION.

HEALTH CARE REFORM IS A BUSINESS STIMULUS.

ESPECIALLY FOR SMALL BUSINESSES, THE CREATOR OF MOST NEW JOBS.

WE NEED HEALTH CARE REFORM RIGHT NOW.

I don’t know who let you off the leash and took off your muzzle so you could talk trash about waiting on health care reform until economic conditions improved. But we’re going to have to talk with the powers that be and have you spanked and removed from your chairmanships.

I suspect you got a call from the corrupt Karl Rove requesting you slow down or stop health care reform; he probably called you once again and called in a chit, reminding you who helped buy your current term in office after you blew off the will of the Democratic voters in your state in 2006.

Or maybe your corporate overlords had their way with you and whispered sweet nothings in your ears which sounded like threats to fundraising for your next run. You really should get your hearing checked, because even with more insurance industry PAC money I doubt you have a chance in hell in your state this next cycle. We are going to make it much, MUCH harder than we did last time, you can bank on it and start planning your retirement.

Look, every single business in this country (other than the insurance industry whispering in your ear) is PAYING TOO MUCH FOR HEALTH CARE. It really, REALLY hurts small businesses, which represent more than 50% of non-farm workforce payroll and can make more than 1.5 million jobs a year in a good year.

It’s a form of unofficial business TAX, savvy? One business owners didn’t vote for. One they must accept because there is no competitive option.

The current cost of health care in this country is making business owners non-competitive.

It’s driving jobs overseas.

It’s cutting into American businesses’ ability to innovate new products and make new America jobs.

And in spite of paying more per capita for health care — that’s per each individual American, in case I am using words that are too big and unfamiliar to you, Lieberman — at roughly $7300 per person we are paying more than any other country in the world.

Yet we die earlier on average than citizens of other developed countries, and we don’t provide coverage for 50 million Americans (that’s the equivalent of 16 states without coverage — and some of them vote in your state).

50 Americans die every damned day because they don’t have health care, and some of them are voters in your state, too. Do you think the 50 Americans who’ll die tomorrow or the day after for lack of health care think we should wait for reform until economic conditions improve?

Do you, Senator?

Something is terribly wrong here, and it’s as plain as day.

We shouldn’t have senators who are either too stupid or too corrupt to understand how bad our current health care system is and how much it’s hurting our country not to have reform RIGHT NOW.

We shouldn’t have senators who think it’s okay for voters to die rather than get them health care reform right now.

Seriously, how stupid or corrupt does a senator have to be to see that the delay advocated might be killing the very voters needed to win the next term?

2012 cannot come soon enough.