So much propaganda comes out of the anti-health-care crowd these days. All the anecdotes about horrors in Canada and the U.K. as if somehow we couldn't rapidly find HUNDREDS of WORSE stories about horrors with health insurance, pharmaceuticals and health care providers under our ridiculous system for every story from a socialized medicine system they might come up with. They harp on the costs, ignoring the horrible costs we pay now, a higher percentage of our GDP devoted to health care costs than any other nation. They talk about "government bureaucrats coming between you and your doctor," when right now we have insurance company clerks interposing themselves between you and your health care, with personal and professional incentives to deny you that care that would not affect any governmental decision.
We need to come out with some much starker and blunter TV advertising. We need this to counter the anti-health-care propaganda -- which consists mostly of lies or at best anecdotes that are deliberately misleading if technically factual -- that is being so effectively spread by insurance and pharmaceutical companies and Republicans, who act in coordination and with the cooperation of our various TV entities who know which side of their bread is buttered by advertising revenue and campaign contributions.
We need an ad that makes the point that opponents of health care are KILLING AMERICANS by the THOUSANDS, every single day of every week. They are causing injuries to go untreated, causing us pain and suffering by the millions, draining our bank accounts and costing us jobs because our products are so much more expensive than those of our competitors, all to save the rich a few pennies on their taxes and preserve the obscene profits of the insurance and pharmaceutical fatcats.
Our ads need to point out that the big pharma and insurance companies, and the Republican (and some Democratic) legislators they have so effectively bought, ARE KILLING AMERICAN MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN in numbers far greater than any wars we may fight, far greater numbers than fall to cigarettes or obesity, far greater numbers than we lose to automobile accidents or violent crime.
THEY ARE KILLING US FOR MONEY. We need to drive this point home with as much forcefulness as we can muster. It's the whole point. THEY ARE KILLING US! BY THE THOUSANDS! TO LINE THEIR OWN POCKETS!
We need to say these things. We can give examples of parents who have lost their children, children who have lost their parents, and families who have been bankrupted and who have lost their homes. We need to FIGHT!
Unless people start pressure Congress for health care and insurance reform, the medical industrial complex will once again stop it. And millions upon millions of people will continue to suffer because of corporate greed.
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