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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSenator Angus King (Ind ME) "They are guillty of murder"
Tuesday begins a 6-month race to enroll as many uninsured people as possible in the Affordable Care Acts insurance exchanges. For the markets to be effective, they need millions of customers, and for elderly participants not to vastly outnumber younger ones.
Its in this context that well-heeled conservative groups are appealing to uninsured young people to remain uninsured part of a backdoor effort to undermine the structural integrity of the health care law.
Their efforts have attracted the attention of one senator who recounts how being insured saved his life when he was a young adult, and who has since then watched others die due to lack of coverage. And he doesnt mince words with those whod take risks with other peoples health security.
Thats a scandal those people are guilty of murder in my opinion, Sen. Angus King, a Maine Independent who caucuses with Democrats, told me in a Friday interview. Some of those people they persuade are going to end up dying because they dont have health insurance. For people who do that to other people in the name of some obscure political ideology is one of the grossest violations of our humanity I can think of. This absolutely drives me crazy.
Well said Senator King.
When the Republicans end up having the Independents calling them out for murder you know that a seismic shift is under way.
Tomorrow hundreds of thousands will start signing up and we will see the beginning of a significant transformational point when those numbers reach the millions.
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Senator Angus King (Ind ME) "They are guillty of murder" (Original Post)
grantcart
Sep 2013
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MoonRiver
(36,926 posts)1. I like that guy!
eShirl
(18,479 posts)2. He's pretty popular here in Maine, and we're happy we can share.
OT: everytime I see a DU thread on Sen. King, I want to link to SNL's "Colonel Angus" skit
MADem
(135,425 posts)3. Angus (I knew a terrier by that name, years ago) is working out well for the great state of ME.
Certainly an improvement in the Senate....