Tea Baggers Ignore U.S. Health Care's Daily "Die-In"
On Tuesday, frothing at the mouth Tea Party faithful will protest health care reform legislation by descending on the Senate and holding a "die-in." But while the Tea Baggers will feign dropping dead to dramatize their opposition to health care reform they wrongly believe will leading to rationing, they seem blissfully unconcerned about the thousands of Americans who actually die each year due to lack of insurance.
As TPM reported:
Tea Party organizer Mark Meckler writes on his site: "The intention is to go inside the Senate offices and hallways, and play out the role of patients waiting for treatment in government controlled medical facilities. As the day goes on some of us will pretend to die from our untreated illnesses and collapse on the floor."
Of course, in the American health care system as it actually is, estimates of the yearly body count from private health insurance range as high as 45,000.
Back in September, a study by Harvard Medical School found that almost 45,000 Americans die each year due to lack of health insurance. To translate that into a metric even Tea Baggers can understand, that annual death toll exceeds the number of U.S. military personnel killed during the entire Korean War.
Even using more conservative models, the Washington Post's Ezra Klein noted, the $900 billion Democratic health care plan could save 150,000 American lives over a 10-year span. (Again, translated into Tea Bagese, that's more than was lost by the United States armed forces during World War I.) As Klein describes the " 150,000-life health-care bill":
Oddly, that label hasn't made its way into the conversation. But it is, if anything, a conservative estimate. The Institute of Medicine developed a detailed methodology for projecting the lives lost due to lack of insurance. The original paper estimated that 18,000 lives were lost in 2000, and the Urban Institute updated that analysis with data for 2006, yielding an estimate of 22,000 lives. As for 150,000, well, that's almost certainly too low. That's just the 2006 number across 10 years, which is the time frame we generally use for health care, with a third of the lives saved lopped off, as we're not going to cover all of the uninsured. But since the population of the uninsured grows every year, and so does the death toll, it would surely be higher. So call it the 150,000-plus-life health-care plan.
Of course, from their insistence that past Tea Party marches drew 2,000,000 (and not the 70,000 who actually showed up) to Washington to their belief that Medicare is not a government program and so much more, what Tea Baggers don't know is a lot. And despite the statistics showing America's 50,000.000 uninsured, 25 million more underinsured, millions of medical bankruptcies and an epidemic of self-rationing, the Tea Party movement instead echoes Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in warning of "reform that denies, delays, or rations health care" and a public option that "may cost you your life."
On Tuesday alone, the nation's private health insurers aided and abetted by health care reform's willing executioners in the Republican and Tea Parties will stand by - and lie down - as another 122 of their fellow Americans die due to lack of insurance.
It's no wonder conservatives are worried about the rise of Tea Bagger as an epithet.
(This piece also appears at Perrspectives.)
"Potitians are like dipers"...the moran sign guy must be back.
All your dipers are belong to us.....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_your_base_ar...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZoq3gPTgnE
Here's a collection of Morans
That moran guy sure gets around. Nice catch!
"MORON"
Watch the video. "MORAN" man makes an appearance. It's an old joke around here.
Thanks for the clarification. It's along the lines of "teh stoopid".
"Blessed are they that ridicule and mock their enemies and bear false witness against them... But even more blessed are they that decide that their brothers *are* their enemies, and then ridicule and mock them and bear false witness against them..."
Didn't Jesus say something like that? I'll bet Sarah Palin thinks he did...
Their favorite Jesus Quote is "I bring not peace but a sword". All the other stuff about caring for strangers and giving away your coat is metaphorical. Except the parable of the talents, that's literal -- God sends you to hell for bad investments.
"What do we want? Nothing!"
"When do we want it? Never!"
45,000 dead is like nine 9/11s every year. And just one 9/11 gave us an excuse to spend far more than the most extravagant national health plan would cost on an illegal and unnecessary war.
Many of these insurance companies are in Connecticut. Why the hell can't we avenge all these deaths at the hands of insurance companies and invade Poland or something?
45,000 divided by 3,000 (dead on 9/11) = 15.
Please watch the fuzzy math.
Thanks for the correction:
But this I could have done without:
A little early in the day for a scolding.
I'm gonna go ahead and guess it was sarcastic, as you're estimate was conservative compared to the actual number.
'bout that, Robbie
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOt3oPd2QH4
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
Tue, 12/15/2009 - 07:26 — Dr. Acula
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDNHPAULb_I
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
The idea that these people are so unconscious as to completely miss reality ...and then even worse, make up an alternate reality that only makes sense to their own is a sad sign for our fellow citizens.
But it's difficult to know what's going on in the real world, or to realize that your construction of reality is fallacious, with your head always so far up your ass.
This is a very sick and distorted thing they are doing today. I mean what do they hope to gain? People die every day due to no health care and yet they are playing out their little drama as if it is something to come. Hello tea bagging folks you are late with your drama and lame with your thinking.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
That's almost more then the number of America hating teabaggers that will show up for this.
"An average of 195,000 people in the USA died due to potentially preventable, in-hospital medical errors in each of the years 2000, 2001 and 2002, according to a new study of 37 million patient records that was released today by HealthGrades, the healthcare quality company."
If you're going to use preventable deaths as a yardstick, sounds like going to the doctor is worse than not having health insurance.
so we should probably take away the right for those affected (or the survivors) from being able to sue those responsible for the mistakes that caused the deaths, right?
yep. And give the insurance companies more power by letting them sell across state lines. Since they are so responsible and care for their clients ans whatnot....
As I said last week:
Somebody goes to this dumbass demonstration with a big ass LCD TV and a few DVDs taken of REAL hospital waiting rooms where real people are really dying from real illnesses that they cannot get care for because the tea bagging insurance companies will not cover them whether the REAL people can pay for it or not because of REAL pre existing conditions or because they have gone over their real lifetime limit of $50,000 worth of real care.
These Tea Baggers are god damn idiots.
You know what you idiots? You have to wait in your god damn doctor's office right the fuck now!!! And you have to make an appointment that you will not get for weeks or months right the fuck now. I cannot believe the stupidity of these people.
Hell, just set up a camera with live feed in any big city hospital and let them watch a true reality show. Reality in this case is pretty damned enlightening. Of course reality for the tea baggers is a whole lot different than it is for sane people. Who are these people? Are they wanna be actors or something. People who have looked for the spotlight all their lives? People like Lieberman who are so starved for attention that they forget the welfare of their fellow man?
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Here's a fact: because our son was born with a heart murmur that insurance (State Farm) termed a "pre-existing condition" (?) we paid close to $1,000 every time he had an echocardiogram. After 19 months of doing this every three months, we were close to broke. After moving to a poor state (Arkansas) and starting over, we were able to receive a program called ARkids First. Thanks to this program, we just returned last week from having an echocardiogram for the first time in years. It showed his murmur has shrunk so small as to no longer constitute a threat to his health.
We have our first worry-free Christmas thanks to this program. There should be more like it across America. Happy Holidays!!!
I'm truly happy for you and your family that the holidays will be better for you all this year. Good for you!
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
Get a bunch of idiots, an irrational cause, and some poster-board and you have a good time for all. Gotta love these folks, they have all the enthusiasm and intellect of a pro-wrestling live audience. I hope that they don't go away any time soon because TEA party stories always put a smile on my face.
$30,000 a month medical bills uh what is wrong with this picture?
This is the kind of thing that liberals should be doing? Where are they? Where are we?
Endangered Species List
We don't have corporate sponsors.
Why isn't the media trying to hammer some people for their hypocritical position on this? When someone brings up "rationing" or panels making decisions or whatever the very next question should always be: "Then why is similar behavior fine when done by insurance company." I haven't heard one big-mouthed TV pundit asked this. All these things that are being complained about are already happening but somehow, since it's being done in the "private sector," it's fine.
We need to stop discussions about left/right bias in the media (at least for now) and talk about pro-corporate bias. It's the only reason I can think of for why all of these questions about insurance companies are being buried in our mainstream media debates.
That's why they are not hammering people.
... the moment they bought into the 'false equivalency' nonsense ol' Rush Limbaugh peddled. That's where the whole 'mainstream media' garbage comes from, and it's lapped up on both the right and the left.
will be taking the metro or bus to protest health care.
What loons.
"Let's talk dirty to the animals"
top urologists in New York City and other major urban areas who pride themselves on NOT accepting any kind of health insurance whatsoever, as do some general surgeons, neurologists and other specialists whose services are reserved for top-of-the-pyramid patients.
There's no excuse to not be rich in the worlds greatest economy!
I see R-staffers and big insurance lobbyists showing up, oh, and a few useful numbskulls from the freedumbworks buses
I understand you all want your country white, uh, I mean back, but this empty display just isn't going to send the message to your senators. There's only one way that the "liberal media" will finally take your struggle seriously.
Drop dead.
For real! What's a cause without a martyr? Do you think if Jesus had said, "Eh, you know what, I'm just gonna get off this cross and spite mine enemies," you'd be misquoting him and nodding off in his churches every Sunday morning? Plus, a few people willing to die for your cause will help distract from the ones who are more than willing to kill for the cause.
So teabaggers in DC, all eleventy-threeve kajillion of you, show us pansy liberals what tough stuff you're made of, and DROP DEAD!
*looks at picture*
Hum. You'd think these people would know how to spell 'DIAPERS' since most of them are either still at that level of maturity or old enough to be wearing them again.
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/old_gri...
The RNC counters the move -
http://www.theonion.com/content/video/zombie_...
Better yet, no sympathy or remorse when these uneducated Reslug morons, that are on welfare, get terribly sick and can't get treatment.
Some of their signs are brilliant...
"Politians are like Dipers"
This was pointed out earlier, but I wonder if many of these people have a solid level of reading comprehension. Something tells me they simply go by what they are told by the corporate handlers.
ignorance, arrogance and indignation.
~45,000 American die = ~1 every 12 minutes, or 5 an hour. I wonder how many people really died during this nonsense?
Teabaggers aren't stopping Medicare expansion; Republicans didn't compromise away the public option. Teabaggers aren't named Stupak. These would be Democrats in the Congress and the White House.
These would be some of those "New Democrats" who love to point at a wingnut and say "Watch Out!" while at the same time lifting your wallet.
Republicans did not kill health care reform. Democrats sold it.
Corruption favors the wealthy.
Texas won't get kinky.
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
for baseball cleats and spittin chewin tobaccy.
They don't seem to have any useful purpose besides holding signs.
The typical 74-I.Q. Conservative will respond with:
Why is it that republicans can't spell worth a sh#t?
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