44,700 + people die each year due to lack of insurance coverage. Many of them die in Emergency Rooms, because they waited too long to seek medical attention. Don’t lie to us about “just go to an Emergency Room, they have to take you…”
Rep Grayson is outraged that the U.S. would allow this to happen. Republican politicians are opposed to changing the status quo, they get way too much money from the health care and insurance industries, just like some Democratic politicians do.
But there’s more to the unwillingness of the Republican pols to do the right thing for America, they want Obama (and the Democrats) to fail. They don’t care about those 44,700 + people, or their relatives and friends. They put party and power ahead of our country, and ahead of our less fortunate countrymen. It’s the Republicans that endorse Death Panels, only they do it by proxy, outsourcing it to the insurance companies.
I applaud Rep Grayson, and I pity the heartless supporters of the GOP.

I am glad the citizens didn’t listen to them.

Hmmmm, interesting. Makes me wonder: If Ken Burns had made Sicko, would health care reform be a done deal?

*Sigh.* Probably not, because only us liberals watch PBS.

However, if Judd Apatow had made Sicko, at least the young folk would care.

Senators Rockefeller, Schumer, Stabenow and Widen of the Senate Finance Committee Sub-committee on Health, did a great job of pointing out that the Medical Industrial Complex’s contribution to Health Care Reform, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) is $20 BILLION and in return they will get $500 BILLION in TAX-PAYER FUNDED SUBSIDIES. Democratic Senators baucus, conrad, carper, lincoln and nelson voted with the republicans to kill the public option 09-29-09.Criminally corrupt politicians are the reason the U.S. is ranked near the bottom of every catagory when ranked next to other modern, industrialized nations. Time for publically funded elections. lieberman $12.6M, mcconnell $7.8M, baucus $7.7M, cornyn $6.7M, kyl $5.6M, grassley $5.4M, ensign $5.2M, conrad $5.1M, cantor $4.9M, nelson $4.9M, burr $4.8M, boehner $4.4M, hatch $4.4M, lincoln $4.1M, vitter $3.9M, carper $3.6M were paid by the Medical Industrial Complex to kill Health Care Reform. (Source: OpenSecrets.org, Aug. 09)Follow the Money: LinkCall Congress and demand, Single-Payer Health Care for All!(Toll Free # House and Senate)1-866-338-1015 _____ 1-866-220-00441-800-473-6711 _____ 1-866-311-3405Sign Single-Payer Petitions: Link LinkDon’t let the Medical Industrial Complex steal your Health Care from you and your family by donating huge sums of money to Crooked Politicians in order to maintain the Status Quo. Keep up the good fight.SEMPER FI!

I guess Wolf Blitzer is a “teacup” poodle………

Maha, get someone to pick up some shiitake mushrooms, and google “dragon mist soup”, great for a cold or flu. ‘Hope you feel better soon.

Wolf was the one interviewing Maha when I first heard of this site.
Wonder why he was so shocked at Grayson. Do you think he has read the repug plan or is it just a stack of blank pages they are waving?

There’s a thingy on national parks on PBS these days.
One of the things it says is how the logging industry was putting out ads saying if you make this a national park, you will lose jobs and only hurt yourself. It also said the logging industry was clearing 60 acres a day trying to get as much as they could before the land was bought by the citizens for a national park.

I am glad the citizens didn’t listen to them.