"Courage is contagious." ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Alan Grayson <[email protected]> Date: Fri, Mar 11, 2016 at 11:37 AM Subject: North Pole Socialism To: Robert Naiman <[email protected]>
<http://action.senatorwithguts.com/page/m/157a9bfe/6e15fbb/763237c0/2fd0e17/129645356/VEsH/> Dear Robert, *If you believe that healthcare is a human right, then show your support, right here and right now, for someone who agrees with you – Senate candidate Alan Grayson >> <http://action.senatorwithguts.com/page/m/157a9bfe/6e15fbb/763237c0/2fd0e17/129645356/VEsE/>* I went to the North Pole a few years ago. I’ll save that story for another time. The staging point for trips to the North Pole is Longyearbyen, in Norway. At 78° North, it is the northernmost permanent settlement. Two thousand people live there. There aren’t a lot of flights to and from Longyearbyen, so I ended up spending a few days there. I particularly enjoyed the snowmobile tour to the ship frozen in ice. But I certainly didn’t enjoy it when I got hurt. There is a long, deep ice cave underneath the glacier outside of town. I went on a tour of the ice cave. This involves climbing up and down the side of underground ice cliffs, hanging onto a rope. I lost my footing, and fell five feet flat on my back, on the ice. Enormously painful. I barely made it out of the cave to the long tracked vehicle that took us back to town. And I kept thinking that the next flight that I could take back to the mainland was several days away. Plus, Norway has “socialized medicine.” Oy. When we got back to town, the tour guide took me straight to the hospital. Yes, a town of only 2000 people in Norway has a hospital. The doctor gave me a very thorough physical examination. He took X-rays, to see whether I had broken any bones. He took blood and urine tests, looking for signs of internal bleeding. He rubbed something into the bruised area. He gave me a large supply of aspirin-codeine tablets. After seeing all the test results, he told me that nothing was broken, nothing was bleeding, and I would be miserable for a week or two. At the check-out desk, I asked how much I owed. Answer: $47. Forty-seven dollars. *Oooooooooooh, “socialized medicine.” Doesn’t it sound just awful?? Not. I support Medicare for All, and I hope that you’ll show your support for that right here and right now >> <http://action.senatorwithguts.com/page/m/157a9bfe/6e15fbb/763237c0/2fd0e17/129645356/VEsF/>* We spend 50% more of our national income on healthcare than Norway does. We have 30 million uninsured people; they have none. They live 2.4 years longer than we do, despite all that darn snow-shoveling. How can we spend so much, and get so little in return? We can do better. And if I’m elected to the U.S. Senate, we will. *Help our campaign for universal healthcare with your contribution of $15 today. <http://action.senatorwithguts.com/page/m/157a9bfe/6e15fbb/763237c0/2fd0e17/129645356/VEsC/>* Courage, Rep. Alan Grayson *CONTRIBUTE <http://action.senatorwithguts.com/page/m/157a9bfe/6e15fbb/763237c0/2fd0e17/129645356/VEsD/>* ------------------------------ Paid for by the Committee to Elect Alan Grayson
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