In the US, 45,000 people die every year because they cannot afford basic medical services, according to a Harvard study.
Helen Redmond
When Tea Party supporters at a recent Republican presidential debate in Florida laughed wickedly and shrieked out “YEAH!” to Wolf Blitzer’s question to Ron Paul asking if society should let an uninsured person die, I wasn’t surprised.
The hatred and immorality of the Tea Party that burst into wild applause and enthusiastic affirmations at the notion of letting a human being die was on parade before the vote on the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act 2010.
Tea Party linked candidate Ron Paul’s position on health care was regurgitated with a range of Republican talking point lies: People aren’t turned away from hospitals, church charity can cure the crisis, and medical costs are skyrocketing because “individuals have stopped taking personal responsibility for their health care”.
The idea of taking personal responsibility for one’s own health is an ideological, artful dodge that means the government has no responsibility to provide health care to its population. The individuals currently taking the blame for not taking responsibility for their own health and costing the system too much are the obese and diabetics.
Congressman Paul is fanatically anti-government, yet he’s spent his entire adult life either campaigning for government office or in the employ of government. Now he’s running to be president of the “big government” he rails against. Rich Republican government-employed politicians like Ron Paul will never be uninsured because their federal government sponsored health coverage will never be dropped or made unaffordable. They have access to the best health care with ten health plans to choose from.
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