Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY)Compares Undocumented Emergency Care Patients To Shoplifters

[proud2BlibKansan]

As part of this week’s installment of the “Senate Doctor’s Show,” Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY) claimed that uninsured undocumented immigrants who seek emergency hospital care have created a situation that’s “just like a store where there’s a lot of shoplifting.” Based on this logic, Barrasso also concludes that undocumented immigrants shouldn’t even be allowed to purchase insurance with their own money:

When I talked to high school groups and they ask about this , I kinda refer to it just like a store where there’s a lot of shoplifting. The owner of the store has to raise the prices for people who pay their own bills — who pay their own way — to make up for what they lose in shoplifting. These folks in the emergency room aren’t shoplifting in the terms of stealing things, but they are using services getting bandages and casts and all sorts of different things and they’re not paying for it. Then the question is, how do you do that?

And a reporter asked me, should we sell illegal immigrants health insurance to pay the way? I don’t think you want to give that kind of — any certification to somebody who is in our nation illegally — somebody who has broken into the country. They broke the law by coming here illegally. And I think that applies to Social Security, I think it applies to drivers’ licenses, as well as to health insurance.

Watch it:
http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2009/09/21/john-barrasso-health-care/

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. A guy like that needs the twilight zone experience, where he all of a sudden

is an illegal in need himself. My guess (not worth looking) is that that heartless asshole has never even had to go to the grocery store for himself.

[babylonsister]

2. That medical compassion is just dripping right off of him. nt

[TransitJohn]

3. Want to know what's really sick?

Our good Senator Barasso is a physician himself. :puke:

[babylonsister]

5. I know; that's what's so startling about all that compassion. nt

[sandnsea]

4. His theory is to prevent people from buying food

and then lock them up when they are "forced" to shoplift.

I don't even know how someone gets to be like this. Monster is the only word that springs to mind.