Saturday, November 16, 2013

1800 died during Hurricane Katrina - Zero deaths because of the ACA: No Comparison


Katrina isn’t shorthand for “bungled administration policy.”  It’s an actual tragedy in which at least 1,800 people lost their lives. Thousands of others were left stranded without food or water in their flooded neighborhoods, on freeway viaducts, in hospitals and nursing homes, and in the televised hell-hole of the Superdome. A million people were displaced, some of them permanently. Whole neighborhoods remain unrestored eight years later. There was at least $123 million in destruction, twice as much as in Hurricane Sandy.
In the ACA holocaust, by comparison, an undetermined number of people may lose health insurance policies they like. Many more, perhaps millions, have been frustrated by a kludgy website. On the other hand, at least 100,000 have signed up for insurance through the exchanges and another 500,000 or so have been newly covered by Medicaid expansion.
Oh, and there have been zero deaths as a result of the ACA woes — unless you count the death of credibility among journalists and pundits who would make such a lame and cruel comparison.


http://www.alternet.org/personal-health/most-outrageous-inaccurate-right-wing-smear-obamacare?akid=11151.294211.7nji_H&rd=1&src=newsletter924817&t=9

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