Repeat After Me: Pro Life = Govt. Healthcare

Run time: 02:37 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju82qX1DzoM   Posted on YouTube: August 07, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: August 07, 2009 By DU Member: Plisko Views on DU: 506

 
My latest video deals with the question of life and who should be protecting it. The government may be an over bloated bureaucracy but it is the only bureaucracy that is legally sworn to protect the citizen's lives. Even people who hate the government need to admit that the one area that we give the government lots of power is when it is protecting our lives. We gladly accept this government's police protection, fire protection, rescue protection, and no piece of military hardware is too expensive to keep us safe. Why is health protection so different? It is the exact same kind of protection, mandated by the US constitution, because it deals directly with the life, death and general welfare of the citizens.


Here's a transcript:

Every Month 1,666 people die because they have either no insurance or bad insurance.

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If you're pro life, you should be pro government healthcare because only the government is sworn to protect people's lives. The same government provides police protection, fire protection, rescue protection and makes sure no piece of military hardware is to expensive to keep us safe.

"I solemnly swear to protect the American people's lives. . . . " that's the government!

Who is Blue Cross sworn to protect?

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If you're pro life. . .

The concern over abortion is a completely fair concern but there's a whole lot more life on the table right now than just that category.

Police protection, fire protection. . .

If you neighbor's house is on fire, your house might burn down too. If your neighbor's kid is sick and they can't afford to go see a doctor, your kid might get sick too!

Rescue protection. . . .

What really is the difference between military protection and health protection except that the enemy is. . . smaller? It's still invading isn't it?

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Private insurance companies don't swear to protect the people's lives.

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To a private insurance company, our health is a resource. It's either an asset which they exploit or it's a liability which they terminate. . . .

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To the government, we ARE the thing they're supposed to protect.

If you're pro life, then you should be pro government run healthcare:

Medicare, Medicade, Veterans Administration, DOD, the government employees insurance plan. . .

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Even the people who don't like government have to agree that the one thing we give the government a lot of power to do is to protect our lives and our well being.

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Given the choice between someone who legally sees you as a resource and someone who legally sees you as their responsibility, which one would you trust to make sure that your treatment won't be terminated because it's too expensive?

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You should be pro government run healthcare.

This is life we are talking about. This is life!

Why wouldn't you be pro government run healthcare?

Because only the government is obligated by law to protect our lives!

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Police protection, fire protection, rescue protection, Coast Guard. . No piece of military hardware is too expensive to keep us safe right?

If you're pro life, you should be pro government healthcare.

Please. . pass it on.

How can you be pro-life and anti health care?

Watch them sputter.

the government keep Terry Schiavo alive.

it is unfortunately going to fall on deaf ears and hardened hearts.

There is a wide swath of America that has been duped into believing that health care reform = health care mandate / take over. They are being fed a steady diet of fear and kept in a perpetual state of terror by people who benefit from their paranoia - Fox News (who profits from their ad rates by having a captive audience), the Health Care Insurers (who obviously profit from the misery of human suffering while providing NO DISCERNIBLE ADVANTAGE IN HEALTH CARE OUTCOMES!!! - in other words, they DO NOTHING FOR US AND TAKE EVERYTHING FROM US!!!) and of course the fringe wing of the once-upon-a-time Republican Party (who really are not benefiting from this at all but have become too stupid to realize the extent of the damage being done to any future they might have had).

I really believe in my heart that the people doing the protests are simply victims in more than 75% of the cases. The people showing up and screaming "ACORN" or spouting off talking points right from a right wing memo are the victims of a kind of torture. Dis-information, or even legitimate information slanted and burnished to make people reach a false conclusion as to the true intentions and motivations of the people providing that information, given on a regular an constant basis - pounded into people's heads through hours of radio and TV broadcasts, expounding the same message of fear over and over and over - is nothing if not equivalent to what is done in sensory deprivation torture of prisoners...

These people - the ones who are screaming about how they don't want any government involvement in health care - have been widely abused by their corporate masters to the point that I truly think the Stockholm Syndrome is applicable in understanding their behavior.

I am hoping to reach the reasonable faction of the conservative movement with this video. . and they do exist believe it or not because some of them are my friends. These are the people who are leaning toward the conservative philosophy of the private market and don't like the idea of government run stuff. . .but at the same time, they are also very strong supporters of certain kinds of government run agencies that protect us. . like police, military protection, and national security agencies. It should be possible to shift the thinking here from the framing of health care as an "entitlement" with all it's buzzwords like "takeover" and "cost" and "bureaucracy" to health care as a "protection" like national security issues. . all those buzz words loose their power because they are beside the point in that context.

Does anyone think that these points can be useful in the debate? It doesn't seem like anyone else is taking this angle but there's a lot of distractions going on right now.. and it makes me wonder if this was a bad time to release this video. It is getting buried under "town hall's gone wild" this week.