Figures to Die By

This section of a post at "the Seminal" by Jim White is so good and so profound I'm just going to past it all:

In an article at CNN.com, we learn how much money is being spent in an attempt to prevent real health care reform:

The health care sector has spent $263 million this year lobbying Congress for changes to reform plans, a government watchdog group estimates.

That’s a huge amount of money. How many people could purchase health insurance with that much money? According to USA Today, the average health insurance premium for an individual is $4824. Dividing $263 million by $4824 tells us that 54,500 individuals could have purchased health insurance with the funds spent by the health care sector in their lobbying effort this year.

Last month, we learned that 45,000 people a year die in the US due to lack of health insurance.

That makes one sick.