What if 40,000+ people "disappeared" in the US each year? Would we revolt?

[Duer 157099]

Isn't that the number of people in the US who die each year due to lack of adequate health care?

[RC]

1. Lack of insurance. The health care is fine, if you can afford it.

That is why Single Payer is needed

[Ineeda]

2. I've thought the same thing

about inadequate health care deaths AND about the number of gun deaths per year. We should be ashamed.

[valerief]

3. +666 trillion

[HowHasItComeToThis]

14. yay

[cali]

4. deplorable as that is, it's still a false equvalency

[baldguy]

6. Yeah, it would be more humane if the insurance companies killed them outright.

Cheaper, too.

[cali]

7. and still a false equivalency

[bvar22]

8. "False equivalency"....probably,

....but certainly a valid rhetorical comparison.

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[baldguy]

5. From the corporate point of view, they're certainly non-persons.

Your status as a citizen is directly correlated with the amount of money you have. And if you have no money, you're not human.

Of course the opposite is equally true - those that have the most money, meaning the stateless, faceless, disembodied legal fictions called corporations are the most human.

[kenny blankenship]

12. Some here would say "oh that's just the fringe - and they deserve whatever reaction they provoke"

Most of the people who talk this way here aren't rich in anything but ignorance.

[Canuckistanian]

10. That's thirteen 9/11s. Every year.

At what point do people start "going Egypt"?

[malaise]

11. Don't they send more black men to prison

for smoking some ganja.

[fascisthunter]

13. and yet the bagger cult is fighting against healthcare coverage for all

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