NY Times article: Mitt Romney Basically Killed a Woman

What do you think? Read Mitt Romney Basically Killed a Woman  and comment.
Thus far there are 92 comments on the article and a debate on Morning Joe and some of the other morning news shows. One commenter even mentions a "chain or causality."
Watch the ad for yourself and decide.


Personally, I know that lack of access to affordable health care will negatively impact whether or not a person lives and is cured of disease or dies from disease. People are supposed to get check ups and if your health care is from a job you no longer have and cannot or do not pay COBRA premiums, you can die from undetected disease.

And, just because the woman had insurance does not mean she still got health care. What type of insurance did she have and did she know she still was insured? Did she die because her insurance stopped?

One day everyone in this nation will make sure everyone has free, accessible health care like other civilized nations so that we may attend to other important issues at hand. No one wants to realize their own mortality but not wanting to and not being able to do so are two different lines of thought. We need free health care for everyone — free dental and vision too. (You'd be surprised at how many citizens still would not regularly see a physician, even if the appointments and or meds were free.)

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