Part Five: Rep. Alan Grayson: "We Can Save These People Or Let Them Die"

After the Republicans fail to stop him from giving his speech on the floor of the House, Rep. Alan Grayson discusses health care in terms of real lives and real stories.

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[RenkorsHorde]

A Democrat... with balls... now I've seen everything.

[monkeypeopleofearth]

5 stars!

[justice79170]

@nvieira100 I'm not on welfare, never been. But I would like to see the high taxes that I pay go to helping people that need help instead of it going to corrupt corporations, corrupt members in Congress and most of all the corrupt financial institutions on Wall Street. If people on welfare could operate like they do, we would all be very successful

[kaysandesses]

@nvieira100 Agreed.

[nvieira100]

@kaysandesses Actually, "welfare" is what the bible calls "charity", so in a sense they should be getting welfare from their religion as well.

[kaysandesses]

Sorry, I misread parts of your post and incorrectly interpreted your position as being radically religious. I understand your point that there is a difference between action and no-action but I cannot agree that pro-life and anti-welfare are consistent from a humanitarian point of view. Most abortion opponents gain their viewpoint from their religion, and their anti-welfare stance from their politics. Their differing origins make them inconsistent. You passed the race question.

[rrp1973]

You make alot of incorrect assumptions about me. I stated I am pro choice and I sure as hell am not brainwashed by any religion. I disagree with prolifers on the moral status of a fetus.

You can support welfare and still acknowledge my points. The right to be left alone and the "right" to be provided for are completely different.

I am not sure why you brought race into this, it is irrelevant.

[kaysandesses]

rrp1973 writes:

"Being prolife and anti welfare are not inconsistent positions to hold. I am pro choice, but I see no inconsistency here."

That's is perhaps one of the most depraved, uninformed bit of nonsense I've ever read. You see no inconsistency because you're brainwashed by your religion. Tell me, would it make a difference if the only people on welfare were white?

"People dying from a LACK OF ACTION is a completely separate matter."

Google "depraved indifference".

[AGiantSloar]

Yes, more like this please. We need more righteous moral leadership like that of Rep. Grayson!

[munrotat]

hope you get your health care working.. it's cin crazy state now. thankfuly we have here in finland 100% health/sosial care, ewerybody get's food/home/medisine, i admit it cost alot but the benefits are mutsh bether :) oyul have the hole population healthy and working.. im so hapy i was born here in finland, sweden and norwhay have same system. no mather what happens you whill not starve or need to sleep outside. think about that. i gladly pay my taxes for that, life is covered no mather wha

[spphilthy]

We need free health care BUT free healthcare will be more coastly than what people know. The worth of the dollar will drop the more we barrow money from the Federal Reserve and the World Bank. We have been borrowing and increasing debt for a decades, almost a century.