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A Time To Kill the Killers, A Time for Outrage
By Rob Kall (about the author) Page 1 of 2 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Rob Kall - Writer
Alan Grayson
calls it a holocaust. You can argue with his use of words, but 45,000+
Americans are DYING every year because of the health care system we
have in the US now. Hundreds of thousands of families are going
bankrupt because of the health care system-- and most of them have
health insurance. 
flickr image by Colure
At a recent townhall I moderated, an audience member
asked former Cigna healthcare communications director Wendell Potter
what he thought about charging insurance company executives with
murder. "Good luck," he replied.
The system won't let such
an idea happen. It's time to kill the health insurance companies-- the
private and the pseudo public ones. FOrget about competing with them
with a weakened, delayed with a trigger, state-level opt-out public
plan. That public plan is an insult to Americans that the Democrats in
congress are trying to sell us-- an insult that is not even plan to
START phasing in until 2013. It is time to make them extinct.
The
right wingers in both parties are opposing creating a public option
that would compete with health insurance companies. They are protecting
these cancers on the american economy. Yes, health insurers are
cancers, sucking up hundreds of billions out of the economy while
making our other industries less internationally competitive.
It's
time to treat corporations like heroin and make them illegal. It's time
to start looking at the very real death panels and policies of health
insurers as murder policies which intentionally kill real humans.
It's
time to pull the plug on the protection of these massive monsters that
are strangling our economy and causing misery in the homes of millions
and millions of Americans.
It will not be easy. The
multi-trillion dollar industry will fight like a cornered animal,
lashing out, attacking politicians, probably blackmailing them, buying
them, pushing them to speak out in opposition to the public option.
It
is time to dump the public option and pass single payer health care. It
is time to characterize politicians who don't get it that single payer
is what is best for Americans and American industry as sold out or
stupid.
It is time to raise the bar. Democrats were given more
power than they've had in a long time and they must use it or they will
surely lose it.
Call your senator and tell him or her you
don't want the public option because you know it is a fraud that is
being unacceptably delayed for four years and more.
Call your
congressperson and tell him or her to sign on to support HR676, the
single payer health care bill. Tell her that failure to do anything
less is a sell out to killer corporations that are destroying lives and
families and killing tens of thousands.
On Tuesday, 1200
supporters of single payer health care came from all over the
Northeastern US to attend a rally in podunk Harrisburg, 100 miles from
anywhere. Across the US, Americans are protesting at health insurer
corporate high rises, engaging in the same kind of civil disobedience
on behalf of the fight for the civil right of health care that marchers
and Freedom Riders and restaurant sitters engaged in when they fought
for racial equality in the south in the sixties. Yes, people are
getting arrested as they protest the murderous, family destroying
health care system we have in the US.
I say that getting
arrested for the civil disobedience of standing in the ground floor
lobby is a start. But we need to hit harder if we are going to kill
these evil corporations. Yes, they are evil. Their executives set evil
policies that deny treatment, deny insurance to children who are too
fat, too thin. The executives declare that women must be sterilized to
be eligible for insurance. They say that rape victims have pre-existing
conditions. The executives set the policies and workers carry them out.
They are evil. Protesters should be protesting the murderers.
When
protesters go to health insurer high rises, they should be carrying
signs accusing company executives AND workers of murder, of being
killers. They should have signs calling for the execution and
termination of the companies, the prosecution of the executives. 
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Rob Kall is executive editor, publisher and site architect of OpEdNews.com, Host of the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), President of Futurehealth, Inc, (more...)
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