Trumpcare: Much Scarier Than Terrorism

From that notoriously liberal purveyor of fake news, Business Insider:

According to a September 2016 study by Alex Nowrasteh at the Cato Institute, a libertarian think tank, some 3,024 Americans died from 1975 through 2015 due to foreign-born terrorism. That number includes the 9/11 terrorist attacks (2,983 people) and averages nearly 74 Americans per year.

Since 9/11, however, foreign-born terrorists have killed roughly one American per year. Six Americans have died per year at the hands, guns, and bombs of Islamic terrorists (foreign and domestic).

The article goes on to point out that, among other things, Americans are 407,000 times more likely to die in a 'motor vehicle incident' than from a terrorist attack.  But this is a bit disingenuous, since the motor vehicles aren't actively plotting to kill you, and terrorists are.  One can rarely foresee a car accident, which is why they're called accidents.

There's another threat to the life and health of Americans, though, and fortunately we CAN foresee this one.  It's called the Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017, more commonly referred to as Trumpcare.  And according to researchers at Harvard, it would result in roughly 20,000 preventable deaths per year, due to the fact that it would deprive roughly 22 million people of health care.

Compared to the number of deaths from terrorism between 1975 and 2015, Trumpcare will do 270 times as much damage to Americans as terrorism.  Compared to the number of deaths from terrorism since 9/11, Trumpcare is a 20,000 times larger threat.  And mind you, this only estimates the deaths due to Trumpcare --- it doesn't even take into account the pain and suffering of the remaining 22 million people without access to health care.

There's only so much we can do to fight terrorism.  Fortunately, it's very easy to fight Trumpcare.  Just contact your Senator (especially if your Senator happens to be a Republican) and tell him or her that you oppose the Senate healthcare bill (BCRA), and you oppose any bill which makes cuts to Medicare.

The phone number for the main Senate switchboard is (202) 224-3121.