Thank you, Alan Grayson
By
leslie ⋅ September 30, 2009
⋅ I finally got an apology from someone in government today for the needless death of my son. Republicans called for an apology to Congress after Rep. Alan Grayson, D-Fla., said the GOP health plan is, ”Don’t get sick, … and if you do get sick, die quickly.”
Rather than apologize to Republicans, Grayson apologized to the dead and their families.
OK, so the rhetoric was a little shocking, but it’s true when nearly 45,000 people die every year because they don’t have insurance and corporate executives are making millions of dollars a year as they deny one in every five claims.
So far, Congress hasn’t been able to pass any legislation to stop the rampant greed that takes all those lives. The American people want serious reform and it has yet to come, blocked by Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats.
Two-thirds of the bankruptcies in this country are because of medical bills and we are the only industrialized nation in the world that lets all this happen.
So, thank you, Alan Grayson, for your apology for the death of my son. You’re the first public official who has done so.
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Alan Grayson rocked! I called his office today and told them how impressed we were by him. (And that if he ever gets tired of Fla, to come to Asheville~the woman who answered the phone went to school at Montreat Anderson!) Hubby called Shuler’s office and told them, he needed to be more like Grayson! The good fight continues!
Is that what the we want? The latest Gallup poll show 54% against 38% for.
It’s what we need. Maybe if someone you love is denied care and dies a slow, painful death as a result, you’ll understand how immoral our system is right now. I’m working to prevent your ever having to live through it. To hell with the polls — it all depands how you ask the question anyway. Once the public option is explained to people, 70 percent want it. So, let’s talk about the morality of allowing 45,000 people to die every year. My son deserved to live. My heart will never heal from losing him.
I’m an American citizen too, and I want my country to do better than this.