Part Seven: Rep. Alan Grayson On Health Care Deaths: These Are People

Rep. Alan Grayson tells the stories from his site, http://www.namesofthedead.com.

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[adrya1983]

Do these republicans have no heart? How can you fight for the high insurance cost? We know why, because the republican party make more money from these insurance sompany, than their actual job, so they take the money rather than let people live! My grandma and my uncle are both victims of this. It's been 8 years and I still hurt from my graqndma's death. It really ruined alot in my life. I don't understand why anyone will fight this bill. It's unexcusable! Or it's because they're garbage.

[CorkxOnxThexFork]

Grayson 2012

[Meade556]

@jimbad05 Ben Nelson is not a Democrat and thank god he is leaving, secondly many blue dogs did vote in the House for the public option because it was an option a market based way of bringing down health care costs. Insurance companies make huge profits, where you get this idea that they make small profits, I have no idea.

[Meade556]

@adrya1983 How could you it was all nonsense

[OneVoiceMore]

"We the people, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity do Ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

I'm no fan of this bill, but NO BILL would suit both parties, so both parties should take the lesser of two evils between IMPERFECT BILLS and NO BILLS AT ALL.

[OneVoiceMore]

@jimbad05 And this 'socialism' jag spewed by morons doesn't wash with people who READ, such as the Constitution.

In the PREAMBLE, one of the primary purposes of government, PERIOD, is to 'promote the general welfare', not in the sense of a handout, but in the sense of 'GENERAL', meaning for everyone. Ultra-capitalism, not socialism, is what keeps life-saving treatment out of the hands of the poor and middle class.

It RUINS them. Don't just posture. THINK.

[OneVoiceMore]

@jimbad05 Seriously, you don't live on this planet. Although it's a hotbed topic, medicinal marijuana, legal in a number of states, saw the Republicans crapping on states' rights, using Federal law to prosecute and bypass state laws for people who are sick and dying.

So how about this:

Why don't you put away the crapola illusion that it's about PARTY, instead of the reality, which is that this is a weapon of class warfare?

[OneVoiceMore]

@jimbad05 I'll address this ill-founded talking point: Because the LEADERS of countries want the best care in the world, which is POSSIBLE here, but not available to everyone, period. It's extremely intellectually dishonest to equate the elite with the people that as you write your little rehearsed memos are dying by their hundreds daily.

But while we're asking questions, why did Republicans make it ILLEGAL to go to Canada for cheaper identical medicine?

Talk about the drug companies, too.

[adrya1983]

@jimbad05 I totally agree with everything you just said.

[jimbad05]

@adrya1983 address costs, we need to address the doctor shortage and the shortage of other skilled medical personnell. Their wages need to rise to encourage more to enter the profession. We need to be raising payments and reforming malpractice insurance. We need to be pushing the AMA to allow medical schools to offer more seats. We need to create a national insurance market which allows people to shop across state lines for insurance - opening up competition that Obama talked about

[jimbad05]

@adrya1983 First, the Republicans blocked nothing. The Democrats had supermajorities. The Republicans didn't even need to show up. The fact is, many moderate and blue dog Dems were uncomfortable with the public option. Secondly, if we're going to address cost, we need not demonize insurance companies. They make a small profit. Blaming them is like blaming the local gas station owner for high gas prices (which liberals also do from time to time.. see, price gouging witch hunts). If we're going to

[adrya1983]

@jimbad05 So you're telling me, you would rather a person die, that can't afford coverage, so that the insurance companies, can keep their cost extremely high? Your argument is hard headed, don't get me wrong, the reform passed is garbage, because it doesn't insure that cost will go down and it inforces everyone to buy insurance, most who can't afford it. The only thing good about this, is you can't be turned away do to a pre-existing condition. Republicans blocked the public option.