Ooops -- had the wrong numbers --
In the Robert Louis Stevenson posting below, I used the numbers of 18,00 dead per year (directly the result of no access to medical care) -- 1500 a month, 50 each day -- slightly over 2 per hour.
OOOPS.
The actual numbers are as follows:
45,000 dead each year from lack of access to medical care
in other parameters, the death toll is:
3750 each month
125 each day
just over 5 dead each and ever hour, 24 hours a day.
So I repeat my charge that the foot dragging on universal health care, the "Yassuh, boss" response those public bribes we so laughingly call "campaign contributions," coming from pharmaceutical and insurance lobbies this amounts to nothing other than murder for money (and some privileges).
THEY ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT THE DEATHS
OF 5 AMERICANS EVERY HOUR, 24/7
because someone has paid them to do so.
It's nothing new -- Upton Sinclair noted and commented on the same phenomenon many years ago:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it."
OOOPS.
The actual numbers are as follows:
45,000 dead each year from lack of access to medical care
in other parameters, the death toll is:
3750 each month
125 each day
just over 5 dead each and ever hour, 24 hours a day.
So I repeat my charge that the foot dragging on universal health care, the "Yassuh, boss" response those public bribes we so laughingly call "campaign contributions," coming from pharmaceutical and insurance lobbies this amounts to nothing other than murder for money (and some privileges).
THEY ARE WILLING TO ACCEPT THE DEATHS
OF 5 AMERICANS EVERY HOUR, 24/7
because someone has paid them to do so.
It's nothing new -- Upton Sinclair noted and commented on the same phenomenon many years ago:
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it."
posted by Saintperle at
4:38 PM
