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.