America to Sick People: Drop Dead!

Is America the meanest, least compassionate, most uncaring nation on earth? Maybe the people aren't, but the United States government certainly is.

There are men and women in Congress who would have you and me suffer and die rather than give up the money that insurance and other "health industry" companies give them.

There are men and women at insurance and other "health industry"companies that will sentence you to pain, suffering and death in order to live lavish lives.

These are the facts of life. This is what America is all about. It is a shameful, sinful, horrifying place to live for people who do not have health insurance.

We walk through our days on eggshells. Maybe we wake up with a pain. There's nothing we can do about it. Maybe our eyesight is deteriorating. "So what?" America says, "Go blind."

Maybe we have a cancer growing where once we thought we had it removed. When we had health insurance, we could go get a scan and check. Now all we can do is worry that it might come back.

America says, "Fuck you, our bottom line is more important. We don't really care if you drop dead or not. Even if you have enough money to pay the rates we set, you've been sick. Go away."

Our own eyes have seen and our own ears have heard the viciousness of Republican politicians and "reporters" and voters and the stooges that the "health care" industry has pimped to appear at the town meetings. We've heard the outrageous lies. All of it to make sure those of us without health insurance suffer and die.

In the past six weeks, we have seen the face of evil. Every single politician and every person who wants to keep those of us without health insurance in danger, and every single insurance company employee who has ever been involved in denying coverage because of the bottom line....that's the face of evil.

If America comes out of this process with anything less than a way for this nightmare to end, those of us on the outside looking in will know, as we pass hospitals and doctors offices and know that we are not welcomed there, that we must suffer and die at the hands of other Americans.

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Comments

[debkatz007]

From my friend John Burton: "Private health insurance execs make: Ron Williams Aetna $24.3mm, H. Edward Hanway CIGNA $12.2mm, Angela Braly Wellpoint $9.8mm, Dale Wolf Coventry Health $9.0mm...These high salaries get passed to us through high premiums, making private insurance less affordable. The head of Medicare makes only between $143,500 and $196,700. The public option will mean more affordable insurance because lower costs."

As long as profit and bloated salaries are part of the picture, our healthcare system will never put people's health needs first.

[Fez]

Any so-called civilization should be judged by how it treats its youngest, oldest, and weakest citizens. By that standard, the US ranks with several failed states in Africa. In fact, the US has officially become a failed state, with a government that is accountable only to its Wall Street pimps and not its citizens. When our Chinese owners re-write US history in 10 years as they foreclose on their loans, they will note that we abused our elders, ignored our children, and killed off the sickest and weakest under the guise of "family values." Soprano family values.

[Carol Stanton]

SELFISH MAYBE...

[Carol Stanton]

why does my post have to be approved...what ever happend to freedom of speach.

[Carol Stanton]

We need healthcare reform now...no more putting off; soon boomers will be retiring and this matter is only going to get worse not better. The public option is what we need to get these insurance companies to lower the prices...they need competition....the public option will give us leverage.
Those that dont want it, either are stock holders in the insurance companies, or work for them, or have some interest in them. Things cannot keep going as they are in healthcare....We need reform and we need it now, Doctors, hospitals, nurses...they all know this... Those of you who do not want to rock the boat because you are happy with what you have....keep what you have. just help out those who do not have healthcare...if you turn your back on them...then eventually...it going to be you or a family member, its just a matter of time.

[Rosy]

It's really true. I have several anti-reform friends whose opposition to reform boils down to, "I've got mine, I really could care less about anyone else." Or as one self-described republican acquaintance put it to me, "why should I have to take care of people who won't take care of themselves?" Apparently in this alternate reality, anyone who is self-employed, works for a small company, or otherwise does not have a wonderful health policy available through their employer, is "not taking care of themselves."