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Tea Party Crowd Yells Let Him Die

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This is an indication how radical and far right the Tea Party is.

 
First the applauding for executions in Texas and now the willingness to let people just die if they didn't have insurance. Man the blood thirst in the republican party is border line medievel. And they say us liberals are godless.
 
Wait until it's their own uninsured 30 year old kid. With the destruction of worker rights and benefits that they have supported, it might not be long until they experience that firsthand.
 
Freedom's just another word for nothin' left to lose.
 
This is an indication how radical and far right the Tea Party is.
That was hardly some standing ovation. It was two or three people. Extrapolating that to the entire group is wrong.
 
That was hardly some standing ovation. It was two or three people. Extrapolating that to the entire group is wrong.

So what would the Tea Party's position be on this? Base on their rhetoric so far, I think that they agree with the ones that shouted, they just didn't have the balls to stand up with them.
 
First the applauding for executions in Texas and now the willingness to let people just die if they didn't have insurance. Man the blood thirst in the republican party is border line medievel. And they say us liberals are godless.

It's just a matter of which God you look at. Mine is much closer to the God of the OLD Testament, not the wussie one from the New Testament.

Wait until it's their own uninsured 30 year old kid. With the destruction of worker rights and benefits that they have supported, it might not be long until they experience that firsthand.

Some of us would have no problem with that. If you can't find a job that provides insurance at age 30, maybe you should just "go away".
 
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Some of us would have no problem with that. If you can't find a job that provides insurance at age 30, maybe you should just "go away"

Sometimes I think that you are someone of a different political persuasion doing a caricature of a right winger. The rest of the time, I'm concerned that you might not be.
 
Paul couldnt even answer that question...he knows the answer....Society WILL PAY...this isnt medival america....
 
Sometimes I think that you are someone of a different political persuasion doing a caricature of a right winger. The rest of the time, I'm concerned that you might not be.

....Be afraid. Be VERY afraid.

....You don't want to see me angry. You wouldn't like me very much when I'm angry.
 
It's just a matter of which God you look at. Mine is much closer to the God of the OLD Testament, not the wussie one from the New Testament.



Some of us would have no problem with that. If you can't find a job that provides insurance at age 30, maybe you should just "go away".


That wasnt the question....it was a 30 yr old that didnt want to pay for insurance who had a good job....
 
Competent adults should be able to decide whether they want insurance. Obviously this means also accepting the possible outcomes of that decision.
 
So what would the Tea Party's position be on this? Base on their rhetoric so far, I think that they agree with the ones that shouted, they just didn't have the balls to stand up with them.
I think that was a rather poor example by Blitzer. Instead of giving an example of where someone willfully chooses not to have health insurance because they feel they're healthy and don't need it, he should have painted a picture of someone who honestly can't afford it and then become gravely ill.
 
I think that was a rather poor example by Blitzer. Instead of giving an example of where someone willfully chooses not to have health insurance because they feel they're healthy and don't need it, he should have painted a picture of someone who honestly can't afford it and then become gravely ill.
I your example is good, however the mandate portion of Obamacare is meant to catch people like Blitzer's example.
 
They didn't really chant let him die, did they. Nice try though. Secondly, they guy should've had health insurance. Why should we have to pay for his lack of responsibility?
 
This is an indication how radical and far right the Tea Party is.



Yeah but with the amount of insensitive, demeaning, sexist, or other bigoted statements liberals have made, I still would not be idiotic enough to attach that to the whole of the mindset. Well, some would, just as others have been more than willing to do so with conservatives around here in the past. I still think it idiotic.
 
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They didn't really chant let him die, did they. Nice try though. Secondly, they guy should've had health insurance. Why should we have to pay for his lack of responsibility?

We shouldn't have to pay for it. Unfortunately, unless you put Charles Manson in charge of hospital admitting, we will pay for it because no one other than a total sociopath would let someone die rather than providing them with life saving treatment.
 
I have yet to hear anything from a Tea Partier that contradicts my conclusion that the main requirement for being a Tea Partier is simply to be a selfish prick. All of their policies are selfish. All of their rhetoric is selfish. These people want everything to be about them. I have no respect for people with the social graces of a five year old.
 
"who is going to pay for it if he goes into a coma?"

IMO comatose patients probably have a hard time paying their bills whether they have a insurance policy or not.

If I have insurance that I pay for out of pocket and I should slip into a coma, I am guessing that my insurer will not keep paying my bills seeing how I would no longer be able to pay my premiums due to my inability to write checks etc.

It is my understanding that if I cant/don't pay my premiums my insurance simply goes away(please correct me if I am wrong).
 
"who is going to pay for it if he goes into a coma?"

IMO comatose patients probably have a hard time paying their bills whether they have a insurance policy or not.

If I have insurance that I pay for out of pocket and I should slip into a coma, I am guessing that my insurer will not keep paying my bills seeing how I would no longer be able to pay my premiums due to my inability to write checks etc.

It is my understanding that if I cant/don't pay my premiums my insurance simply goes away(please correct me if I am wrong).

More than likely in such a scenario one or more of the following would occur:

1. Someone in your family would be granted power of attorney and would either make your insurance payments themselves, or pay them out of your estate.

2. If your employer offers long term disability insurance, your health insurance premiums would be paid out of it.

3. In the event that your insurance was dropped due to your losing your employment, or non-payment, the hospital would apply for temporary Medicaid coverage for you so that the hospital continues to get paid for your care. Assuming you did not have a large amount of assets, you would get temporary Medicaid coverage since you would have no income, and your care would paid for that way.

4. If you had a lot of assets, the hospital would petition whoever was given power of attorney over your estate to pay for your care out of those assets.

Many people who need long term expensive care, especially cancer patients, end up on temporary Medicaid coverage because they lose their insurance due to the inability to work while sick. God knows what our cancer death rate would be in America if we did not have Medicaid. A lot of people believe they would never end up on Medicaid, but if you get a type of cancer with a poor prognosis before you reach Medicare eligibility age, more than likely unless you are independently wealthy, you will end up on Medicaid.
 
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It's just a matter of which God you look at. Mine is much closer to the God of the OLD Testament, not the wussie one from the New Testament.

How is it that you're a Christian then? (assuming you would claim that mantle). The "wussy" God in the New Testament IS the Christian God. That's the whole point of Jesus.

I'm not saying that you have to see God the way Jesus described Him, just that if you don't believe what Jesus taught, how can you be a Christian?
 
How is it that you're a Christian then? (assuming you would claim that mantle). The "wussy" God in the New Testament IS the Christian God. That's the whole point of Jesus.

I'm not saying that you have to see God the way Jesus described Him, just that if you don't believe what Jesus taught, how can you be a Christian?

I'm NOT a Christian. I grew up Christian, and even back then had little respect for the New Testament God. Yahweh was always a much more meaningful and sensible diety than the New Testament God. I am now Spiritual, not Religious, so trying to explain how I see "God" would take a bit of time and totally derail the thread. If you're that interested, PM me and we can talk about it.
 
We shouldn't have to pay for it. Unfortunately, unless you put Charles Manson in charge of hospital admitting, we will pay for it because no one other than a total sociopath would let someone die rather than providing them with life saving treatment.

I'm not saying let him die, I'm saying treat him and then bill him.
 
I'm NOT a Christian. I grew up Christian, and even back then had little respect for the New Testament God. Yahweh was always a much more meaningful and sensible diety than the New Testament God. I am now Spiritual, not Religious, so trying to explain how I see "God" would take a bit of time and totally derail the thread. If you're that interested, PM me and we can talk about it.
I actually am very interested to hear how you view God.
 
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