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September 18, 2009

WTF does "pro-life" really mean in the real world?

Above is a pic of an anti-healthcare protester at Congressman Wu's Town Hall in Portland earlier this summer. Below is a pic of a Teabagger at the "Tea Party" in Forest Grove this past April.





Study links 45,000 U.S. deaths to lack of insurance:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 45,000 people die in the United States each year -- one every 12 minutes -- in large part because they lack health insurance and can not get good care, Harvard Medical School researchers found in an analysis released on Thursday.

"We're losing more Americans every day because of inaction ... than drunk driving and homicide combined," Dr. David Himmelstein, a co-author of the study and an associate professor of medicine at Harvard, said in an interview with Reuters. (emphasis supplied)

Posted by Kevin at September 18, 2009 10:01 AM