GOP to the uninsured: Drop dead

[ErikJ]

GOP to the uninsured: Drop dead

By Matt Miller, Tuesday, July 10, 5:01 PM



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Fifty million uninsured Americans would be the immediate casualties of the GOP’s “let them eat the emergency room” mentality. But all of us would be at risk. In America — alone among wealthy nations — everyone is a pink slip or job change or new illness away from finding they’ve lost coverage or are uninsurable.

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“Those folks never vote for us,” he told me, summing up the Republican mind on the issue, “and we have our priorities for the money.”

Like trillions more in tax cuts for the best-off Americans over the next decade.

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Here’s what you should do, Mr. President. In the debates this fall, pull out a small laminated card you’ve had made as a prop for this purpose. Then remind Mitt Romney that the ranks of the uninsured today are equal to the combined populations of Oklahoma, Connecticut, Iowa, Mississippi, Kansas, Kentucky, Arkansas, Utah, Oregon, Nevada, New Mexico, West Virginia, Nebraska, Idaho, Maine, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island, Montana, Delaware, North Dakota, South Dakota, Alaska, Vermont and Wyoming.

Read that list slowly, Mr. President. Then ask your opponent: Would America turn its back on the citizens of these 25 states if everyone there lacked basic health coverage? That’s what we’ve been doing for decades. You knew it was right to act when you were governor of Massachusetts, Mitt. How can you pretend we don’t need to solve this for the nation? And how can you object with a straight face when your own pioneering plan was my model?

The president should also say he’d be happy to talk reform once Republicans offer a rival plan that the CBO certifies will cover 30 million people, as the Affordable Care Act does.

Today’s Republican party won’t do it. They want the money for tax cuts for the top. They don’t care.

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[Angry Dragon]

1. +1,065

Good post

[enough]

2. k&r (nt)

[Dalai_1]

3. K&R n/t

[undeterred]

4. They really don't give a rats ass about anyone except the uber rich.

[metroeco]

5. League of Uninsured Voters (LUV)

51 million Americans are without health insurance. Today, we and our families and friends are sick, hurting, dying, bankrupt, evicted or fear the above because government and HMOs ignore us. No longer. The League of Uninsured Voters (LUV) leads with tough love to demand what polite conferences have failed to achieve.