Grayson Reads The Numbers Of The Uninsured Dead From Republican’s Districts

The Whistler • November 6, 2009

Everybody’s favorite whack-job democratic congressman was at it again last night.
He spent about twenty minutes reading the number of “uninsured dead” from each Republican Congressman’s district. I’m not sure just where he got that number, or how he can show that because someone is or was uninsured they didn’t recieve care. But – the fact that those folks died seems to be proof enough for Grayson as he wriggles even lower into that swamp Pelosi promised to drain.
The video is posted in three parts, but the first two are nearly ten minutes long each and without large quantities of adult beverages at hand I couldn’t stand it, so I posted the last one, which is short and shows the final moments when the chair yanks the floor out from under this toon.
The other two parts are up over at the Huffington Post if you can stand it. By the way, click over there and read the comments left by the readers. They seem to think this guy is some sort of hero. Frankly, that sort of low standard is why the left is what it is.

Grayson has his own website called, somewhat ghoulishly, The Names Of The Dead in which he claims that 44,000 are dead because they didn’t have insurance (I still can’t imagine how he got that number) and wants you to tell him if you know of anyone who doed because they weren’t insured. Empirical fact gathering at its finest, don’t you think?
This guy needs meds.
Update by Rob: Grayson is no doubt using this study, which claims 45,000 annual deaths due to a lack of health insurance, as the source for this rather unfair attack on Republicans.
The problem is that study is fatally flawed and ultimately meaningless. The study amounted to a survey of people asking them whether they were or were not covered by health insurance. If they said they weren’t covered by health insurance and died at any point in the future the conclusion in the study is that they died from a lack of health insurance.
If they got run over by a car and would have died even with health insurance they still died because they didn’t have health insurance. If they later got health insurance but then also got cancer and had it treated but lost their fight they’re counted as dying because they didn’t have health insurance.
This study has been around for a while. To date, Democrats haven’t made much noise about it presumably because it’s such an awful study. It would take someone as dumb as Rep. Grayson to use it as a basis for a political argument.

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http://Array sayanything-2819

Lack of insurance does not cause death. Lack of care will. The truth is that people without insurance can get the care they need, but many of them don’t know it. Also, even people with insurance will put off seeing a doctor until their conditions are badly in need of treatment.

This guy is a disgrace and should be told to shut up by his own party.
Mongol

Libs’ “reform”
1) Unconstitutional. Mandate is against constitution. If they pass it there will be a revolution. Hopefully just political.
2) Unsustainable. Pretty much anywhere it has been tried. Yes yes even Germany and France are slowly gutting it.
3) Expensive. Mrs. Bottox bill is anywhere between $1.5-2.4 Trillion.
4) Does nothing to address the main problem – costs. In fact it will drive them through the roof. It’s called supply and demand, for those wondering why.
5) Will fund abortion. Unlike some here, my ethics are less than flexible.
6) Deny coverage based on pre-existing conditions. (the new bill is based on HR 3200, and HR3200 had a loophole to allow for that.
6) Make those in critical conditions without insurance wait 6 months before they can sign up. Here is another name for it… hurry up an die.

Let your reps know what I let mine know long time ago. If you already have, make sure to remind them before Friday. We will have their political hides on the wall, if they let this pass (not simply vote against it, but let it pass).
jimmypop

love this guy. keep them talking people!!!
Brent

Grayson is a good finance guy, but he caught the “I’m doing well and feel guilty, so government should transfer wealth to poor people” syndrome.
http://fu.com/ robert108

Grayson remains on the Crazy Train. His nickname is “Acorn Boy”, apparently.
sayanything-1714

Rob doesn’t like it when the Liberals play the Conservatives game. He loved it when Palin was talking about Death Panels.
lock’m'up

Even if only 1/4 are legit, that’s a lot. The current proposals are not great. We should ease up on the proponents of single payer. Single payer makes sense financially, and I don’t see that I would have to break with my beliefs to back it.
sayanything-8606

It’s a record. Grayson has earned the Jackass of the Month Award two months in a row. Considering all the competition this is an amazing achievement. One more consecutive month and he earns Perpetual Jackass status. My money is one this guy.
http://www.2plus2equals5.net winston_smith1

i like this guy. because he doesn’t have anything to lose. he can say but he’s got yall talling, doesn’t he? now if only the republicans had somebody who would say outrageous things, maybe he could get them to talking.

by the way, grayson is like ron paul in his hatred of the federal reserve bank.
http://sayanythingblog.com robport

I updated the post to reflect the study Grayson is using as a basis for this. It’s a crap study that was essentially a survey of people asking whether or not they have health care. If they answered no and died subsequently, regardless of the cause and regardless if they might have gotten health insurance in the intermediary time, the study concluded that they died of a lack of health coverage.

It’s bunk.
bikebubba

OK, this flawed study indicates 45,000 people each year might due due to a lack of health insurance–even though the CBO’s numbers suggest that a lack of health insurance is actually culpable in only about 8% that many, or maybe 4000 deaths.

Now let’s compare with Lancet’s estimate of how many people would die every year if the U.S. had European cancer survival rates; 200,000.

Even if Grason were right, and he isn’t, I’d still take what we’ve got over what Pelosi wants to give us.

It also bears noting that the methodology of Grayson’s favorite study, and it’s acceptance as peer reviewed by the Journal of Public Health, demonstrates very clearly that peer review isn’t doing its job very well. Take note next time you hear a study is “peer reviewed.”
SteveCan

What a complete ass…….

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