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October 2, 2009

Rep. Grayson: Healthcare Reform Needed to “End this Holocaust in America”
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Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson of Florida is coming under criticism
from Republicans after he said on the floor of the House that the
Republicans’ healthcare plan involved wanting people to “die quickly.”
Grayson has refused to apologize to Republicans.

Rep. Alan Grayson: “I would like to apologize to the dead, and here’s
why. According to this study, ‘Health Insurance and Mortality in US
Adults,’ which was published two weeks ago, 44,789 Americans die every
year because they have no health insurance…Let’s remember that we should
care about people even after they’re born. So I call upon the Democratic
members of the House, I call upon the Republican members of the House, I
call upon all of us, to do our jobs for the sake of America, for the
sake of those dying people and their families. I apologize to the dead
and their families that we haven’t voted sooner to end this holocaust in
America.”



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