Projecting Death

Think Progress:  During an appearance on Hugh Hewitt’s radio show on Tuesday, Sen. John Thune (R-SD) pledged that Republicans would kickstart the process of repealing the Affordable Care Act shortly after the November elections and predicted that the party would be able to undo the law through the budget process “by sometime in the spring.”
 
Unimpressed by the timeline, Hewitt pressed Republicans to move faster. He compared the urgency of repeal to Congressional action in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and argued that people are already “dying” from the law. Thune seemed to agree with the sentiment:

HEWITT: Yeah, the reason I balk a little bit is only because I know people are out there dying under the burdens of this thing.
THUNE: Yeah.
HEWITT: And they expect, you know, the light speed for Congress is like molasses for the rest of the real world.
THUNE: Yeah.
HEWITT: And so it just seems to me that after 9/11, you guys moved fast, and I would hope it would happen again.

This is the projection of public policy that causes massive death.  If the GOP repeals Obamacare 30 million more Americans would be without health insurance.  Since 45,000 Americans die every year due to lack of health insurance, over a 10 year period, repealing Obamacare will doom nearly a half million Americans to death.  That's a lot of dead people on Republican hands.  That's not our opinion, it's simple math.  Democrats had best start saying so.