Posted on 05/07/2017 5:20:31 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Idaho Republican Rep. Raul Labrador sparked outrage from his audience and online after saying "nobody dies" for lack of health care access in a town hall Friday night at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho.
Labrador made the comments the day after the U.S. House passed a GOP-led health care bill repealing and replacing chunks of Obamacare. Labrador, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, was responding to an audience member who expressed concern about how the bill would affect Medicaid recipients.
"You are mandating people on Medicaid accept dying. You are making a mandate that will kill people," the audience member said, before being drowned out by Labrador's response.
"No one wants anybody to die," Labrador said. "You know, that line is so indefensible. Nobody dies because they don't have access to health care."
The line immediately drew audible outrage from the crowd, as well as ire from social media users.
Labrador was similarly booed for a comment he made last month that health care isn't a "basic human right."
Former Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney was fiercely criticized for a similar comment he made in 2012.
"We don't have people that become ill, who die in their apartment because they don't have insurance," the former Massachusetts governor told editors of the Columbus Dispatch.
It's unclear how many people would lose health insurance under the current version of GOP plan, which has yet to be scored by the Congressional Budget Office.
A 2009 study published by the American Journal of Public Health before Obamacare became law, said 45,000 people die annually from lack of health insurance.
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TITLE: New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage
New study finds everyone dies. /s
The truth hurts when liberals have to think
I do wish Republicans would learn how to massage their messages; they always say things that sound “mean” to their idiot constituencies. They ain't the party of stupid for nothing.
Here's a start...call DC pols offices and ask why ads are allowed that promote specific pharmaceuticals.
Dr.Thomas Sowell’s 3 questions that can be put to practical use by all conservatives in our daily political conversations and blogosphere exchanges:
“I’ve often said there are three questions that would destroy most of the arguments on the left.
The first is: ‘Compared to what?’
The second is: ‘At what cost?’
And the third is: ‘What hard evidence do you have?’
There was no need to change the insurance of 300 million people for 20 million.
How can someone die from lack of insurance?
This is like saying that auto insurance prevents accidents.
This was such a DUMB statement, especially since dems and the msm LIVE for this stuff.
Emergency care is access to healthcare.
We need a younger, more in touch REAL conservative core in our congress.
We don’t have that.
That people who don’t work and pop out kids at 13 on should get health insurance is a warped left wing way of thinking.
The Constitution guarantees a level playing field for hard workers.
Not abortion on demand, sex changes and SNAP
Nothing outrages them more than when emotional blackmail fails.
The best medicine can do is remove what is injuring the body. The best that pharmaceuticals can do is substitute for a poor diet.
He said the wrong thing. What he meant is Nobody dies due to lack of access to health insurance. The battle we are waging is not about healthcare, it is about insurance and how to pay for it.
Our problem is that some politicans don’t get that.
With all graciousness extended to this moron, have we completely lost the ability to get any message across in the Republican party? Almost makes me want to run for congress. I won’t take the demotion from pastor, however.
I think I won’t be Republican anymore, but will change my affiliation to Independent. This is more accurate of me anyway.
Did they die from lack of health insurance or because they ate vegetables?
Wouldn’t it be wonderful if leftist morons would stop believing the world is out to kill them. It’s a lie and the sooner one stops believing in lies, the sooner one becomes a conservative and a Republican. Facts are just too difficult to deal with for the average democrat. I don’t even want to begin the list of lies they desperately want to believe in.
What he said is accurate. There's no one who dies because he doesn't have medical insurance--because he can always go to an emergency room. And if there's a free market for medical insurance (which will cave the price to 1/5 of what it is now), emergency rooms won't even be over-stressed.
Stop thinking about, and discussing, access to health insurance.
Health insurance is not health care, and to the extent that insurance providers also engage in authorizing or providing care, it’s bad.
“Emergency Rooms are why people never die unless they are near death. Of course, you may want to die when you get the bill.”
I was recently at a large party which was a Christian attended event. Present was a man about 100 pounds overweight. He is also on Medicaid despite being only 40 and in excellent general health. He started getting hives and decided it was life threatening. I’ve had worse hives and question his assessment as he had more than enough breath to go outside and suck down a few cigarettes. Several of the attendees offered to take him to the hospital. He elected to call 911 as “they take you in instantly and you don’t have to wait for hours with the trash people.” According to what he said later his total cost was $700 for the ride. For somebody tight on money that seems ridiculous. (You should have seen the expression on the faces of several people attending when he said trash people. Some people are kind in what they don’t say.)
Trust me, if you get to the ER and your hives are large and visible, they’ll take you right away. I’ve seen and experienced a bad case. I suspect he was being paranoid.
You can only afford this level of paranoia if somebody else if footing most or all of the bill.
Our problem is that some politicans don’t get that.
No, our problem is that the political class is well aware of the difference and enacts unconstitutional legislation anyway to gain more control and access to more money to grow government.
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