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You have to admire the audacity of the right. Here’s what’s actually happening. The US is the only major industrialised country that does not provide regular healthcare to all its citizens. Instead, they are required to provide for themselves – and 50 million people can’t afford the insurance. As a result, 18,000 US citizens die every year needlessly, because they can’t access the care they require. That’s equivalent to six 9/11s, every year, year on year. Yet the Republicans have accused the Democrats who are trying to stop all this death by extending healthcare of being “killers” – and they have successfully managed to put them on the defensive.
From Johann Hari of the UK’s Independant. Via Derek Powazek.
I find the politicking involved with this healthcare debate terrifying. The Republican party has basically used grassroots politics as a club to change the dialog about healthcare reform. Once again, they have found a way to convince their rank-and-file supporters to vote in their own disinterest.
