news flash: 123 american dead, no wikileaks connection

[niyad]

News Flash: 123 Americans Dead, No WikiLeaks Connection

by Donna Smith

Today, in cites and states across the United States, 123 people died because they lacked enough money to buy healthcare services. That brings the annual death toll for 2010 to 41,082.

WikiLeaks had nothing to do with the deaths of the 123 people who died today or any of the 41,082 who died so far this year.

The 123 who died today did so with the full knowledge of all who allowed their deaths. The 123 who died today might have lived if they had access to appropriate healthcare. The 123 who died got no mention on any news program or website – liberal, conservative or otherwise. So much for the value of 123 human lives.

We Americans have become so conditioned to the cruelty of our profit-driven healthcare system that the death of 123 of our fellow human beings doesn’t even warrant the same coverage as the potential sale of Bob Dylan’s handwritten lyrics for “The Times They are a Changing.” Something is ridiculous about thinking that Dylan’s lyrics might bring $200,000 - $300,000 from some wealthy buyer who might have funded some healthcare and saved a few lives today. What’s changed, Bob?

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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2010/12/02

[Tippy]

1. K&R

[xchrom]

2. recommend

[stray cat]

3. and yet some people don't get a flu shot contributing to even more fatalities

and dick cheney isn't involved

[leeroysphitz]

4. I'm confused. I thought the health care system had been fixed.

:wtf:

[niyad]

6. well, it depends on how you define "fixed"

[Eddie Haskell]

5. That puts things in perspective.

Recommend

[niyad]

7. welcome to DU

[TexasObserver]

8. But our FOR PROFIT health care system is making money!

Don't get sick if you can't afford to pay the money grubbers.

That's the message of today's health care system.

Getting patients in debt and taking their assets after they're dead appears to part of the plan.

[niyad]

9. as grayson said, "don't get sick, and if you do, die early"

this is their way of culling the herd, apparently

[TexasObserver]

11. If the Wallet Biopsy turns up negative, you might as well make funeral plans.

"First, do no harm," has become "first, check for insurance coverage."

[leftstreet]

10. K&R

[uppityperson]

12. kick since too late to rec

[Fumesucker]

13. Error: you can only recommend threads which were started in the past 24 hours