50 million uninsured in the U.S., but if the Tea Party has their way, many may be dead soon! That will also help our unemployment rate!
My last blog post was on the crowd reaction (and Ron Paul reaction) to Wolf Blitzer following up on a health care question by asking if the uninsured should just be allowed to die if they are ill. As the news today shows, that unfortunately isn’t a hypothetical question from Blitzer, as the number of uninsured in the U.S. has grown to nearly 50 million. Not only is unemployment an issue for the American worker, but so is health care coverage, as the percentage of employers that even offer health insurance to their employees continues to drop, as does the amount employers themselves pay if insurance is offered.
50 million uninsured, in what we ourselves supposedly think is the greatest and most powerful country on the planet? A 2009 Harvard study found 45,000 people die in the U.S. every year due to lack of health insurance. The same study found those without health insurance have an overall 40% higher risk of death than the insured. But still, we have the Tea Party and seemingly every GOP candidate railing against ObamaCare. God forbid we try to insure people and ensure equal access to health care for every American. After all, it’s MUCH more important for Tea Party Joe down the street to have an extra $30 in his paycheck so he can afford an extra case of beer a week, than it is for an uninsured mother to be able to get that lump in her breast checked out.
