The Rethuglican "Walk It Off!" Health Care Plan:

• Don't Get Sick

If you insist, then

• Die Quickly

Thank you, Alan Grayson (D-FL) for showing Democrats that it's OK to have a spine and demonstrating that the Republicrits never pass on a opportunity to lie in order to get their way. Some people are saying that Grayson's use of 'holocaust' was a bit over the top (I'm among them). However, Alan Grayson is Jewish. The significance of Hitler's (The) Holocaust [ with a capital "H" ] is seared into his very being. He carefully chose "holocaust" [ with a lower case "h" ] because it fits. In health care in America we have a dictatorship that decides who lives and who dies a slow painful death from lack of proper medical care.

To my Repubnican friends:

This is not about government taking over anything. It's not about taking away freedom, or killing anyone with taxes, or setting up death panels, or any of the other lies that the health insurance industry is paying to dupe you. Actually, health insurance companies

• limit your freedom by tying you to a job that provides health insurance
• raises and raises and raises premiums
• have real death panels (they're called "claims department")
• can drop consumers at a whim - thereby threatening people with death or bankruptcy

This is about fixing a vital infrastructure that is broken. That vital infrastructure, health care in America, no longer functions well. The current caretakers of the system have no intention of changing the system unless the change will enrich them more - at YOUR expense.

If the health insurance companies would bring us affordable universal health care, there would be no need for regulation and real competition.

Unaccountable insurers are just like an unaccountable financial system: they can tear the country apart while sucking out all of the resources of the American People.

Drunk drivers kill more than 14,000 people each year - and drunk drivers face jail time and years of restricted freedom and years of financial difficulties. 46,000 people die each year because of inability to pay for health care. That number grows every year.

Health insurance companies are rewarded for making insurance unafordable. The more people they keep out of the system, the more money they make. Insurance company profits are up 428% in the past 6 years. In that time 25% more people have become uninsured.

We are bombarded with lies about how incompetant government is. So explain why it is that Medicare uses 97% of its revenue to pay for medical care, but private insurers use 70%-80% in revenue for paying claims. The rest goes to a bureaucracy that is rewarded for denying claims, to other overhead expenses, to unconscianienable salaries for top executives, and to exhorbitant profits.

As an aside, let's see if government is really incompetent. Call fedex or UPS. Ask them how much it costs to deliver a 1 oz letter withing 250 miles - on the 2nd Day (with a good chance of overnight). Then ask the Post Office the same question. 'Nuff said?