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Are you the guy who posts the go-buy-vogue stuff? Cause somehow it fits.
You asked for back-up on estimated deaths from dearth of healthcare. From the Families USA site:
"In 2002, the Institute of Medicine released a groundbreaking report, Care without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late, which estimated that 18,000 adults nationwide died in 2000 because they did not have health insurance. Subsequently, The Urban Institute estimated that 22,000 adults died in 2006 because they did not have health insurance. To find out what this means for people across the nation, Families USA has generated the first-ever state-level estimates of the number of deaths due to lack of health insurance. Our estimates are based on both the Institute of Medicine and The Urban Institute methodologies applied to state-level data."
They go on to list deaths - estimated of course - state by state. Very interesting and worth a look:
http://www.familiesusa.org/issues/uninsured/publications/dying-for-coverage.html
I know, I know.......you're "not talking to me" again, because I use unfair tactics like facts and humor.
Pretty please - make it so.
You don't realize it, but your lightweight diatribes against liberal lifestyles just make you look bitter and envious.
Liberals aren't nearly as lock-step in their accoutrements as you think, but maybe if you got yourself an iPhone after all, you'd feel better. Couldn't hurt.
You've got a litany of posters on these pages who call you out as a crackpot on almost every thread.
I engage, relatively nicely thank you, with Readerreader, Old Joe, groundzero and even E-man on occasion. Any of those guys have more integrity in their little finger than you do.
You're a fool, a dishonest one. You lie that others lie, rather than ever once examining the utter drivel you put up.
You never once win an argument, because you don't have anything to fight with. You've got "iatrogenic damage and casualties", which you keep harping on even after I say it's terrible to see such deaths. You don't listen, and you don't learn.
2/3 of the country agrees with me, as do a long list of posters on these pages. Our private insurance is broken, needs urgent and major work, and the Public Option is the key.
Go back to sleep.