Mass Murder - Ultimately worse then 9-11

[avebury]

Why haven't people been screaming that a vote to kill the Affordable Care Act is flat out mass murder. Anybody voting to kill AHA will be flat out guilty of willful negligent homicide.

A rational person knows that millions will lose their insurance. A rational person knows that there are thousands to hundreds of thousands of people with serious medical conditions who won't be able to afford insurance or to pay for their care. They will die. Anybody who votes to kill AHA knows that and will vote to kill it anyway. They will ultimately be responsible for a greater loss of life then 9-11. How does that not make them domestic terrorists?

Each state needs to find a way to track the loss of life and, every time someone dies, there needs to be a public announcement. Obituaries need to include a statement that ________ (US Senator/US Rep) voted to kill the AHA and I died.

I am not website development savvy but a website to collect all the information would be great. Imagine being able to query How many people in District _______, State _______ have died due to the death of the ACA? Imagine electronic billboards that can be updated with the loss of life due to the death of the ACA. Imagine someone like Rachel for example saying on his/her show: It has been _____ days since the death of the ACA and it is estimated that _________ people have died as a result.


That information should be taken and shoved down a Candidate's throat at re-election time.

[MichMary]

1. Facts are stubborn things...

A rational person knows that there are thousands to hundreds of thousands of people with serious medical conditions who won't be able to afford insurance or to pay for their care.

This is already true. We got a quote from an insurance agent on the "choices" available to us on the individual market: $1700.00/month, $9000.00 family deductible. And of the two policies available to us here in rural Michigan, one covered one of my docs and the other covered neither.

There are already hundreds of thousands of people who can't afford that kind of premium, and choose not to seek medical attention because of astronomical deductibles. The ACA is not perfect, and anyone who thinks it is is being willfully ignorant.

[avebury]

2. The problem is that the Republicans are stubborn in their

insistence of a for profit insurance system and refusal to see health care as a human right. Single payer, non-profit is the way to go. Other countries have that, quite successfully, and they don't drive their people into bankruptcy or a coffin in the process.

I know someone who went to Costa Rico for surgery and she had fabulous treatment at a fraction of what she would have paid here in the US.

I don't know if it is possible but I am surprised that more people don't look at going to Canada to have their children. Would their children automatically have dual citizenship? Is it possible to use anchor babies to gain Canadian citizenship? I don't know if they would be able to take advantage of the Canadian health care system. It would be worth investigating.