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When Congressman Alan Grayson said on the House floor that the Republican health reform plan was “don’t get sick, but if you do, die quickly,” Republicans demanded an apology. Grayson refused.
Instead, Grayson said the only apology he would make would be to the nearly 45,000 who, according to a recent Harvard study, die each year in America because they couldn’t get health care for lack of insurance. He invited people to send in their stories. They did.
www.NamesOfTheDead.com
Tonight, Grayson is again on the House floor, reading a few of the stories. There are several more segments at this site.
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Recommended. Thank you, scarecrow. Rep. Grayson’s heart is near as big as he is. It was very difficult for him to read these stories. He truly is living up to his oath, indeed not only representing his district but all the poor and uninsured in America. He truly loves this country and our people.
WOW.
This should be on every fricking channel.
Which of course means it will be ignored by every fricking channel.
Goddammed this country needs to wake up.
One of the more moving videos I’ve seen on YouTube.
Thanks for posting it.
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scarecrow, Rep. Grayson, struggling to keep from breaking down, reads letters about the poor people who died in this country due to lack of insurance that would allow them to get medical care; what was the president who campaigned on that very issue doing? Informationclearinghouse gives us a peek. Here’s an excerpt (it gets worse):
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scarecrow, I cannot maintain any kind of objectivity about this. Will you please check out the story and if you find it worthy, write a diary on it?
Thank you.
Powerful stuff.
We are allowing the people in Our Congress to spend our money on wars and just about everything else, without taking care of our people as to basic healthcare.
We are seeing right now that so many just plain don’t care about those people that died, and the ones who might.
We should not have to wait to try and vote them out of office, but should have a way to recall any of them who oppose taking care of our people. with our money, and making that the first priority.
Now we find ourselves hoping, and some even praying that there are enough that care, to pass even the worst of healthcare bills, Seeing that some won’t even let it come to a vote. What will it take for the American people to decide it’s time to remove these people from our Government.
But but but he called a lobbyist a ho’ in an obscure radio program last month! That’s all the frickin’ GOP/media complex cares about.
Withoug attacking the world’s oldest profession, aren’t lobbyists like prostitutes in a way, though? Although in the one case I think it’s a matter or economic exploitation, in the other it seems to be a profession of choice.
(You shouldn’t have to figure out which is what. Needing to pay off graduate student loans doesn’t count.)
What makes Alan Grayson appealing to people, especially in the blogosphere, is that he just comes out and says things. When Joe Wilson of South Carolina did it, the GOP rallied ’round like Sherman was marching on Atlanta.
But they go digging to find Grayson Gems, and they did deep. Then, they want to make a big deal out of it.
The verbal farts of their own, broadcast on prime time no less, are quickly forgotten.
I watched part of that on CSpan yesterday. It was very moving. I appreciate Grayson’s action. These deaths are happening all around us. But they happen quietly. Nobody hears about them except friends and family members. Our corporate media is not interested in publicizing these cases. It’s the same for cases of Americans who die from not being able to afford treatments like biologics that their insurance company will not approve and for the cases of Americans who die daily from medical mistakes.
What about those who with insurance who died? I mean, having insurance doesn’t mean you’re covered, at least in this country. And, of course, this doesn’t get into the area of iatrogenic mishaps that lead to death.
I’m looking forward to the day that Grayson gets to say something like that on MTP. I’d like to see him take on Gregory.
Isn’t Grayson that K Street Whore?
Please remember, what goes around comes around.
All the Bush haters who called him this that and the other, never thought the shoe would be on the other foot. And, Obama doesn’t like it. He shouldn’t, but the critics had lots of lessons over the last 8 years.
The only way civility will ever return–and I don’t think it will–is if the party of the uncivil reigns in their own. By the looks of this thread, that aint happening any time soon.
Also, I know lots of people who had insurance, got covered and also died. I know a lot of people on Medicare who died. Will Grayson read their names??