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jefferson_dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 08:46 PM
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Teabaggers cheer for death again, this time for letting uninsured die.
Edited on Tue Sep-13-11 04:45 PM by jefferson_dem
The Crowd On Health Insurance

A bit of a startling moment happened near the end of Monday night's CNN debate when a hypothetical question was posed to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? "Are you saying society should just let him die?" Wolf Blitzer asked.

"Yeah!" several members of the crowd yelled out.

<SNIP>

The answer may have struck a truly libertarian tone but it was clearly overshadowed by the members of the crowd who enthusiastically cheered the prospect of letting a man die rather than picking up the tab for his coverage.

-- Sam Stein

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/tea-party-debate-_n_959142.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000008#28_the-crowd-on-health-insurance

VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrQHcMucLVU&feature=player_embedded
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tinymontgomery Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 08:53 PM
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1. Some sick mother fuckers
What has happened to this country and humanity in particular?
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davidpdx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:17 AM
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15. Sick fuckers is an understatment
The party of "moral values" has not only been run off the road, it's been hijacked.
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Vicar In A Tutu Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 08:54 PM
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2. What do they think of abortion?
Specifically very early on?
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 09:09 PM
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6. If you're out of the womb, you're fucked.
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davidpdx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:16 AM
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14. Well not necessarly
They screwed around with trying to keep the ex-husband in Florida from taking his wife off life support. It's whatever really fits their twisted description of "saving lives".
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 08:40 AM
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18. Oh well, it's a quote from G. Carlin.
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 10:17 AM
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20. If you're pre-born, you're fine, if you're pre-school, you're fucked! n/t
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RoccoR5955 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 08:57 PM
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3. weird, ain't it...
most of those teabaggers are against abortion, in any case, yet after it's out of the womb, KILL IT!
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my2sense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 09:06 PM
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4. Yeah - and they THINK they have
the moral high ground. Hypocrites...each and every one of them.
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arcane1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 09:07 PM
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5. Wolf totally screwed up that insurance question
instead of a man who makes a conscious decision not to buy insurance, the question should've been about a man who cannot bloody AFFORD insurance!!!!!
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OwnedByFerrets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 09:18 PM
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7. Ding Ding Ding
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 09:25 PM
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8. "communities and non-government institutions can fill the void"
yeah, Ron- they have such a good track record in that regard :crazy:
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Vicar In A Tutu Donating Member (298 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 03:42 AM
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11. Ron Paul's shrug, as if to say...
"That's their problem" was more chilling to me than the response of at the intellectually moribund shitheads slumped & slobbering in the audience. That manis supposed to be a fucking doctor? Can you imagine if you've gone to him with a health-complaint, he's doing some sort of procedure and suddenly gets a call telling him that your insurance doesn't cover that specific area? You're out of there; he's not even going to wipe the blood away!

Fuck me. And people wonder why no genuine Cancer or AIDS cures have been released. It's because these kind of people work among the biggest, most profitable medical establishment in the world.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 04:56 PM
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22. This is where our country is headed...
no one seems to give a damn about anyone but themselves. It is very chilling, indeed.
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Cosmocat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 08:01 AM
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17. SERIOUSLY ...
Sadly, there are about 30-35% of this country who REALLY believe that. They just don't understand the scale of it one bit.

We have an amazingly generous and giving people, but the non-government sector cannot even BEGIN to address the cost of health care in particular for more than a small percentage of those who cannot afford or access it

It just is childish.
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awoke_in_2003 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 04:57 PM
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23. They don't seem to understand anything...
until it lands on their own doorstep.
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 10:27 PM
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9. Are these the same people that argued against universal health care
because they would have death panels?
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-11 10:32 PM
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10. What in the hell would possess any human being to cheer for the
death of sick people. They are just evil.
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In Jest Donating Member (35 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 04:11 AM
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12. God Bless Liberty!
:patriot:
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RandomKoolzip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 10:24 AM
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21. Right - the liberty to die if you happen to be unlucky.
Living without a net - ain't that what America's all about?


Well, not since the 1830s, it hasn't....but hey! Americuh! Fuck yeah!
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Enthusiast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 05:05 AM
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13. This comes as no surprise.....nt
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paparush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 06:24 AM
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16. Isn't that what Christ said, "Let them die..."
The hypocrisy of the Baggers is just bone jarring.
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-13-11 08:48 AM
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19. Should have then asked him what he thought Jesus would have done
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 01:21 AM
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24. Folks who don't mind allowing that kind of mentality rule this nation
are on this site.
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-14-11 01:33 AM
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25. followup question should have been
what if the uninsured is one of YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS
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