Let’s Hug It Out.
According to all of the kids and other assorted trendsetters President Obama is in, he is hip, he is cool. I tragically am probably not so cool and as such have decided to take small steps in my life to be more like him. As a first step in my imitation and eventual metamorphosis into a much cooler person I have decided to completely make up statistics such as “10 Trillion People Will Read This Article”. To you and I this may seem an impressive statistic to make up but ultimately we have to yield to the master, see exhibit A from Obama’s arm twisting of the Democrats before the healthcare vote on Saturday:
What’s in our grasp right now is a chance to prevent a future where every day, 14,000 Americans continue to lose their health insurance, and every year, 18,000 Americans die because they don’t have it.
Really? So 420,000 people a month are losing their health insurance? 4,000,000 plus a year? See I just assumed things were going well since on July 23rd of this year the President said at a town hall meeting:
This is not just about the 47 million Americans who don’t have any health insurance at all.
Fast forward less than two months to September 9th and Obama was appealing for help for the 30 million uninsured. A month and a half, 17 million newly insured now that is change I can believe in!
It would be wrong to move on without acknowledging the ominous 18,000 Americans die every year from not having insurance whopper. Now I’m no community organizer but I do have some experience in healthcare and have worked directly with over 300 hospitals nationwide over the last 10+ years and to the best of my knowledge “death by lack of insurance” is not an option on any death certificate. You are probably far more likely to die of cancer, heart failure, or hell being trampled to death at a Jonas Brother’s concert then dying of a lack of insurance. I only bring this up because I know it to be a completely made up statistic, hospitals do not track in any way shape or form the number of uninsured who die in their facility, there is no bureau or department that reports the number of people who have died without insurance so this 18,000 number is not an exaggeration like the uninsured number it is an out and out made up statistic. A falsehood. A lie. Worse than that it’s the lowest kind of fear mongering, it’s a fear mongering with no basis in reality.
This debate on healthcare is complex enough without mucking it up with lies so give it a rest unless you want to be one of the 4,113,017 people a year die of lying.
Excellent, Veruckt! I’m number 375,002 to read this post in the last minute.
When this whole imaginary crisis and debate re-emerged over the last year I knew barely anyone in the mainstream media would question the numbers. There are so many elements of this debate that drive me crazy but here’s just one: One of the implications by Obama, Pelosi et al is that having insurance equals access to health care or better health itself. Health insurance is a policy not a panacea.
Does Obama bear any responsibility here for any of the real numbers of uninsured people? The reality is unemployment is up and most people who have insurance get it through their employer? Oh, wait, that’s the jobless recovery.
538,897.2 people have contracted lung cancer since you started reading this. Do something, anything! Think of the children.
Or course people are “losing their health insurance.” That’s what happens when you tie it to a particular job, and when your policies have the effect of raising unemployment to heights that Jimmy Carter left for Ronald Reagan. (Gotta get in a “blame the previous guy”, too.)
So rather than decoupling the two, our Prevaricator-in-Chief wants to nationalize it, thus giving the FEMA people who were so adept at handling Katrina a permanent man-caused disaster that’ll make people begin to welcome the way they handle the natural disasters.
40,000 people went homeless while I read this, 30 children were abducted by complete strangers and 400 people died of bee stings and then became gay.
Good job, V.
Floyd, you forgot all about the alien abductions and Zombie attacks.
Don’t they ever teach arithmatic in schools anymore….. Hey Barack…1 + 1 = 2…2 + 2 = 4…. even a terribly dyslexic moron like me KNOWS THAT!
Oh wow..we have a new blogger here n stuff! Good one Veruckt!
I have managed to somehow survive without health insurance for over two years now. Does this mean that the Grim Reaper will be coming for me at any moment?
No — the grim reaper strikes those without life insurance. A quick death is relatively cheap.
Many thanks all. It really is astounding that no one and I mean no one questions the President’s numbers or any of the statistics that are trotted out in this debate. Even the uninsured numbers from the Census Bureau are based on an optional question that was only done on a small percentage of census surveys between 3 and 5 years ago (the findings weren’t released until 2007). Even calling them an approximation is giving them undeserved legitimacy.
We have bigger fish to fry here. Do you know how many people become amputees each year from untreated rugburn? 973. Yes, it’s true because I said so.
Do you know how many people die each year in shopping cart accidents?
I didn’t think so. But Oprah and Obama do, just ask them.
So are you replacing Mike, ya know, since that whole Ann Coulter thing?