Andy Gill
Yeah, he’s the guy who jacked up the price of epipens – an item in which children and adults alike need when a potentially life-threatening allergic reaction occurs…
“Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance…“
But, it’s not just the costs of health care, it’s the costs of not having any health care that are unethically ridiculous; for instance: Vox reports that “On October 19, 2016, Jessica Pell fainted and hit her head on a nearby table, cutting her ear. She went to the emergency room at Hoboken University Medical Center, where she was given an ice pack. She received no other treatment. She never received any diagnosis. But a bill arrived in the mail for $5,751.”
And, then there are stories of paying thousands of dollars, out of pocket, for CAT scans, ambulance rides, and various other medications needed due to unavoidable happenstance. (you can read more on these stories here from Vice)
“Uninsured, working-age Americans have 40 percent higher death risk than privately insured counterparts… early 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health.[3]”
You Can’t Be Pro-Life and then, somehow, Anti-Universal Health-Care…
It’s the differentiation between luxury and necessity…
Yet, we’ve blurred these lines by turning our basic level human rights into these disgusting for-profit commodities.
Being pro-health care isn’t a “liberal agenda” – it’s about being a good person. And, if we want to turn it into politics then we can discuss what being pro-life actually means…
Chappelle, in his most recent Netflix special, said it best:
“You know what kills more black people than anything, more than police or terrorism…? SALT.”
It’s funny cause it’s probably true, but, it also points to a bigger problem of how misdirection works and the system keeps us focussed on things that should otherwise, probably not be primary…
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