Today, in the U.S. Congress, while Republican lawmakers teabagged outside the Capitol with the manipulated, misled and mostly racist and ignorant teabaggers who associate health care reform with the Jewish Holocaust of World War II(??!!!), fascism, Nazis, concentration camps, Hitler, McCarthy, and God knows what else, Alan Grayson spoke the truth on the House floor. Grayson is hard at work for the people he represents.
Update on yesterday teabagging event in Washington. Investigative reporters and bloggers learned that yesterday's event was sponsored by Koch Industries, a firm whose owners give large donations to right wing causes. It provided 40 buses, free transportation, signs and doughnuts for participants. In other words, yesterday's teabagging was yet another ginned up and fake populist, grassroots movement.
Unfortunately for far too many Texans, our lawmakers are either too out of touch, lazy or corrupted by greed to even read the health care reform bill. The Party of No, Never seems to be far more comfortable partying in a wacko world of lies, fear and hate.
All Texas Republicans are opposed to health care reform with or without a public option. They are opposed to competition and the freedom to choose one's insurer. Texas Republicans prefer to protect the profits of the health insurance industry rather than address the needs of their constituents in their home districts.
The uninsured dead in Texas district by district follows below the fold.
TX 1 Gohmert 155 dead
TX 2 Poe 162 dead
TX 3 Johnson 144 dead
TX 4 Hall 134 dead
TX 5 Hensarling 151 dead
TX 6 Barton 136 dead
TX 7 Culberson 103 dead
TX 8 Brady 138 dead
TX 10 McCaul 127 dead
TX 11 Jackson 124 dead
TX 12 Nelson 156 dead
TX 13 Thornberry 144 dead
TX 14 McCloskey 146 dead
TX 19 Neugebauer 132 dead
TX 21 Smith 119 dead
TX 22 Olson 150 dead
TX 24 Fraser 138 dead
TX 26 Burgess 162 dead
TX 31 Carter 124 dead
TX 32 Sessions 209
Folks, pick up the phone. Call your Rep. Give him or her the facts above. Ask why he/she is opposed to health care reform.
Remember, our members of Congress receive the best tax payer funded government run socialist health care that tax payer money can buy. All for $500.00 per year.
Members of Congress are not subject to the death sentences handed out by private health insurers.
Do they support death sentences for their constituents?
The Congressional Budget Office said on Wednesday that an alternative health care bill put forward by House Republicans would have little impact in extending health benefits to the roughly 30 million uninsured Americans, but would reduce average insurance premium costs for people who have coverage.
The Republican bill, which has no chance of passage, would extend insurance coverage to about 3 million people by 2019, and would leave about 52 million people uninsured, the budget office said, meaning the proportion of non-elderly Americans with coverage would remain about the same as now, at roughly 83 percent.
The budget office has said that the Democrats' health care proposal would extend coverage to 36 million people, meaning that 96 percent of legal residents would have health benefits. The Democrats' bill would cost $1.1 trillion, with the costs more than covered by revenues from new taxes or cuts in government spending, particularly on Medicare.
