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Reasons to call it The Healthcare Holocaust.
By Rob Kall (about the author) Page 1 of 1 page(s)
For OpEdNews: Rob Kall - Writer
What kind of intention must exist for a massive death count be called a holocaust?
A recent study put the annuals deaths due to lack of health insurance
at about 45,000 a year. That's up from previous estimates of 18,000 to
24,000.
That was before seven million people lost their jobs and soon, their health care.
That didn't include the people who are under-insured or who have been
intimidated by insurers who have denied reimbursement for coverage of
treatment or medication. I think the numbers are much higher, more like
100,000 deaths a year due to not having health insurance and an even
bigger number for the underinsured and intimidated or reimbursement
denied, but let's just go with an equal amount. so we're talking about
100 to 200,000 even 300,000 deaths a year.
Multiply that by the fifteen years since the Republicans and DINO-
democrats who sold their souls to corporations blocked Hillary
Clinton's efforts to reform health care and you have some ugly
numbers-- 1.5 to 3 million dead because politicians did all they could
to prevent those people from having the kind of access to health care
that every person in Canada, France, England, Germany, Italy, Japan,
Taiwan, and the rest of the modern world all have.
I'd say those numbers reach holocaust proportions.
I'd say the intention by Republicans and Democrats like Max Baucus,
with their dirty health care industry lobbyist money, was to create a
situation that led to these deaths. That makes them accessories to
them.
Yes. It's a holocaust. Yes, those politicians who have blocked
universal health care for all Americans deserve to be accused of
helping to perpetrate a holocaust.
Grayson deserves our thanks for using the holocaust analogy. We should
take it further. So many already unnecessarily dead, so many more
sentenced to die because Max Baucus and Blanche Lincoln, Charles
Grassley and John Boehner and a few dozen blue dog democrats recruited
by Rahm Emanuel care more about the profits of health care corporations
that the tens of thousand who will DIE because these
politicians sold out their souls. Maybe we should show their dead
bodies, like we've seen the skulls of the victims of Pol Pot in
Cambodia, and make it clear that these Republicans and Democrats are
killing people every day. They're saying what Grayson said wasn't
NICE? Goddamn right it wasn't . But it's the truth and should be
shouted throughout the halls of congress.
skulls from the killing fields of Cambodia
from flickr by narcissus...
This is not an affront to Jews. There are partisan Jews who will attack
Congressman Grayson, but by doing so, they are abusing THEIR history of
the Jewish people, using the real holocaust to politicize their
accusation. This is not a Jewish issue. When so many die because of
the intentional actions of others, it IS a holocaust and any Jew who
remembers the holocaust will want to do all that is possible to prevent
another one. THe shameful thing is, the holocaust in America is SO
preventable. The question is, do Barrack Obabama, Nancy Pelosi and
Harry Reid have the courage to do the right thing, which is not a weak
public option that is triggered, like Olympia Snowe sells us-- just a
prettier gas chamber for the dying. No, the answer is single payer--
the end of private health insurance in America. Anything less is soft
pedaling to those who want to keep the dying, the killing happening.
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...)
The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.
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