Rep. Alan Grayson, we love ya.
Count on SearchIndia.com to cut you a check during your next election.
We promise.
Last night, this Democratic Congressman from Central Florida (mostly the Orlando area) hit the nail right on the head when he said:
If you get sick in America, this is what the Republicans want you to do: If you get sick America, the Republican health care plan is this: Die quickly. That’s right, the Republicans want you to die quickly if you get sick.
Folks, please click on Grayson’s image below to watch his brave and honest speech on the House floor.
Folks, as a recent study by Harvard Medical School researchers has made clear: 45,000 Americans die every year because of lack insurance.
One death every 12 minutes in America.
And the people responsible for these avoidable deaths are America’s greedy scumbag quartet of doctors, insurance companies, pharmaceutical firms and hospitals who resist any reform that’ll reduce their profits.
And of course, their Republican supporters in Congress.
Bloody Unpatriotic Animals.
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Hei, how does it work in America?
Over here, we have private and general hospitals. Privates are relatively exp so you use either use insurance or if you have cash to pay for it. In government, well there’s a waiting list but it so much more affordable. For example, a 400 – 450 tooth surgery in private may come to around 100 if done by a professional dentist or even less by a trainee dentist in a government hospital. Medications are at least a quarter of the priced charged in private.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
You write: how does it work in America?
In America, if you don’t have insurance and you fall sick, you die. There’s no such thing as a govt hospital here (with some stray exceptions).
Every 12-minutes, someone without insurance dies here in America.
No kidding, sweetie.
Don’t believe all that drivel you read about how we are the richest country and all that nonsense.
We are at the bottom of the pile. Please see this chart.
What do the alphabets represent in the chart and is it recent?
Ok that sounds really bad. Which means if you guys can’t afford insurance and have no money, you are telling me that’s no help at all?
I dont believe it! Which means where healthcare is concerned, you might as well move into my country and Malaysia is considered 3rd world. We have got University Hospitals and government staff get extra benefits from these GHs. We have one GH in every district.
That sounds bad guys and i cant believe after so many years, its still the same system.
You mentioned profits from all these quarters….and hence why there’s been no changes..its sad to note what the world has come into. Your life actually means nothing where money is concerned.
In India, I hear they fool the patient’s family by operating on them so many times just so they can hike up the bills.
SearchIndia.com Responds:
1. In India, if you are poor and go to a hospital, they steal your kidneys (and presumably other parts of your anatomy too).
In the U.S., we haven’t gone that far yet.
2. Regarding your question on the alphabets in the chart, D is close to fail grade (A is best grade). The chart is not that old.
For more information on the chart and the study, please visit here.
3. You write: Which means if you guys can’t afford insurance and have no money, you are telling me that’s no help at all?
Well, we can roll over and die. Nice alternative, na?
A lot of bankruptcies in the U.S. are caused by obscene healthcare costs.
4. You write: Which means where healthcare is concerned, you might as well move into my country and Malaysia is considered 3rd world. We have got University Hospitals and government staff get extra benefits from these GHs. We have one GH in every district.
Very true. Every 12-minutes, someone without insurance dies here and we pretend it’s not happening here.
It’s an image issue. After all, we’re the ‘richest country in the world.’
The motherfu**ing doctors, insurance companies, pharma firms and hospitals here have purchased the Republican Party (and a few Democrats too) and stymie all attempts at reform.
SI wrote: Don’t believe all that drivel you read about how we are the richest country and all that nonsense. We are at the bottom of the pile. Please see this chart.
A survey of countries would likely show that U.S is the most obese nation in the world and that angle cannot be overlooked in the debate over health care reform since obesity has devastating consequences to health. Here are excerpts from a New York Times article I recently read about how the agri-business is thrown into the mix of players (along with insurance companies) that are culpable for the sad state of affairs.
From the article:
“There’s lots of money to be made selling fast food and then treating the diseases that fast food causes.”
“As for the insurers, you would think preventing chronic diseases would be good business, but, at least under the current rules, it’s much better business simply to keep patients at risk for chronic disease out of your pool of customers, whether through lifetime caps on coverage or rules against pre-existing conditions or by figuring out ways to toss patients overboard when they become ill”
And the complete article is here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/10/opinion/10pollan.html?_r=1&sq=food,%20health%20care%20reform&st=cse&scp=3&pagewanted=print
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Nice story (in above NYT link) on the connection between our highly subsidized agri-business (cheap junk food) and overall poor health of the nation (U.S.).
Lately, we’ve started eating sprouts mixed with tomatoes, mushrooms, feta cheese et al.
And liking it too.
“Bloody Unpatriotic Animals.”
Look who says that!! WOW
SearchIndia.com Responds:
We were referring to the healthcare mafia here and their Republican pimps in Congress.
My condolences man, hope the system changes
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Obama seems determined to usher in some reform.
Unclear yet how far he can/will go given the tremendous resistance in the Senate.
The poor man faces tremendous obstacles.
There are so many nut cases here who insist Obama is not an American.
And we thought we left the loonies behind in India!
SI: And we thought we left the loonies behind in India!
Ha ha ha ha, ouch!
You planning to launch WWW3 with your India readers izzit ?
SearchIndia.com Responds:
Nah, we love our Indians wherever these anopheles mosquitoes may breed: India, America, Malaysia, Singapore, UK, Canada, Australia,, New Zealand, South Africa, Fiji….