Tea partiers cheer to let uninsured die

[Liberal_in_LA]

Tea partiers cheer to let uninsured die, Ron Paul says let churches help

When debate moderator Wolf Blitzer brought up a hypothetical young, uninsured American in a coma, he asked, “Are you saying society should just let him die?” and the tea party crowd cheered, some shouting, “Yes!”

Rep. Ron Paul, the other candidate from Texas and the most libertarian of the GOP hopefuls, was more compassionate than that in his response, as a doctor and as a Christian.

Paul, a Baptist, referred to his early career working at the Santa Rosa hospital in San Antonio, where churches helped cover costs of needy patients so the Catholic system “never turned anybody away.”

“We’ve given up on this concept that we might assume responsibility for ourselves, that our neighbors, our friends, our churches would do it,” said Paul, an opponent to federal healthcare as well Medicaid and Medicare plans.


http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011/09/tea-partiers-cheer-to-let-uninsured-die-ron-paul-says-let-churches-help/?tsp=1

[Scuba]

1. It's only a short walk from "let him die" to "kill him". n/t

[Marthe48]

2. But if it were a relative of theirs

they'd want no expense spared. Repugs tend to help themselves first. And only.

Do you notice that pain relief, alcohol, tobacco, antibiotics and natural remedies, such as red yeast rice, are regulated to the extreme, so if we want to self-medicate, we can't, or we go to jail. So much for relying on ourselves, Dick. I mean Paul.

[dtexdem]

3. But "compassionate" Ron Paul says treat him if sufficient charity care can be found.

Which mean, let most of them die but trumpet a few saved by "charity."

[Initech]

4. Such sick, twisted minds. Fox News rots your brain.

[Johonny]

5. i wonder if that will make tonights daily show

[JaneQPublic]

Maybe they'd have more compassion if they thought of the coma patient as...

...a very mature fetus.

It just goes to show that these teabaggers have gone radically farther off the conservative cliff than the right-wingers a few years ago who protested pulling the plug on Terri Schiavo.

[geardaddy]

7. +1000

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. So I guess if I get sick and can't pay my medical bills

I'll just head down the street to that nice Lutheran church in my neighborhood and they'll take care of everything. Problem solved.

[Bake]

9. The Lutherans might ... the Baptists, not so much.

:hi:

Bake

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

11. Lutherans, in general, seem to be a pretty compassionate bunch

(maybe not so much the Wisconsin Synod, Michele Bachmann's old church until she decided they weren't flamboyantly fundie enough), but I don't think they're going to be funding bone marrow transplants and artificial legs and dialysis any time soon. They might offer up a hot dish or two, though.

[randr]

8. This exlains all we need to know about the tea party

“We’ve given up on this concept that we might assume responsibility----
Government IS the result of people assuming responsibility.

[tawadi]

10. Churches can cover health care costs? Not gonna happen.

Churches have too many sex abuse legal bills these days.