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I'm sure it doesn't surprise you that Monday's Tea Party debate for the Republican Presidential candidates was pretty awful. No news there, but something important actually happened. CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul a question that could expose the true cruelty of the entire Republican field.
Blitzer told the hypothetical story of a healthy 30 year-old man with no insurance who goes into a coma and needs treatment. Blitzer asked Ron Paul this qeuestion: "should we just let him die?"
Members of the audience shouted out "Yes!" and the room erupted into applause. Ron Paul agreed with crowd. It was disgusting.
For the 50 million Americans without health insurance today, the question remains: what do the other Republican Presidential candidates think? Do they agree with the crowd at the last debate shouting that rather than treating a 30-year-old uninsured man, we should just let him die? We deserve to find out their answers as well at the next debate.
Join other DFA members and demand that Google, co-sponsor of the next Republican debate, ask all the Republican candidates this question: "Should we just let him die?"
For the Republican candidates pandering to their Tea Party base this may all seem like a big game to win. But for the uninsured in America, it's no game -- it is literally life and death. Ron Paul should know that. His own campaign manager, Kent Snyder, died of pneumonia in 2008 because he was uninsured. When he died, Snyder had over $400,000 in medical bills.
We know Ron Paul doesn't stand on the side of his own campaign manager and the millions of other uninsured Americans, but where do the other candidates stand? At next week's debate, Google can ask them to go on the record.
Let's make the sure they do. Add your name to the petition now. We'll deliver the signatures to Google before the debate next week.
Thanks for everything you do.
- Charles Charles Chamberlain, Political Director
Democracy for America
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