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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts)
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 02:35 PM Mar 2013

Over 50% Of US Population Would Have NO Health Care If GOP Got Its Way.

Think about it. If the GOP were to succeed with its entire agenda on health care and domestic programs over 50% of the population would have no access to health care. Forget the churches and nonprofits because they do not want to take care of the poor or low wage workers who do not have enough to live on. The fundy churches are about building churches and financial empire. You can include the Catholic Church in that group as well. I do not see any undernourished cardinals.

What else could any sensible person conclude with the Ryan budget and GOP sequestration desires? It they had gotten what they wanted all cuts would have been domestic with raising the DOD budget and huge tax cuts for the super rich. Remember their rhetoric over the debt ceiling.

I simply not understand why voters are not hammering them at town halls. Instead McCain gets all this grief from Medicare and Social Security seniors about giving money to blacks and hispanics and amnesty for undocumented workers. Not a word about GOP cuts.

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Over 50% Of US Population Would Have NO Health Care If GOP Got Its Way. (Original Post) TheMastersNemesis Mar 2013 OP
That's one way to get their country back... bamacrat Mar 2013 #1
My understanding gollygee Mar 2013 #2
I think about it daily. BeHereNow Mar 2013 #3
this viewpoint violates democratic party leaderships demand to be more...bipartisan lol nt msongs Mar 2013 #4
Two questions: (1) Why are the Republicans so dead set on making the poor suffer? and (2) ladjf Mar 2013 #5
For #2 gollygee Mar 2013 #6
Why their position doesn't ruin them politically .... dawg Mar 2013 #9
yep die on the street lovuian Mar 2013 #7
i imagine if they actually 'got their way' no one would get one red cent from the govt. spanone Mar 2013 #8

bamacrat

(3,867 posts)
1. That's one way to get their country back...
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 02:42 PM
Mar 2013

make it so everyone else dies or leaves and they can have their dream.

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
2. My understanding
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 02:44 PM
Mar 2013

from my right wing libertarian family members, is that ideally no one would have health care coverage, and everyone would pay out of pocket. That way there would be this kind of capitalistic magic where everything would be affordable and no one would suffer for lack of services.

BeHereNow

(17,162 posts)
3. I think about it daily.
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 02:48 PM
Mar 2013

I am the mother of an adult child who has a "pre-existing" condition.
Despite the fact that we have been with our insurance company for nearly 30 years,
paying for her, now that she is 26, NO one will insure her.
She is one of the people who most need insurance and medical care.
Fortunately, we have a doctor who will continue to provide care at the cost of an office visit.
What about all the other people like her?

Fact is... the people who MOST need access to care are being denied it.
Fuck the republicans for their inhumane treatment of people, who by no fault of their
own, are being denied medical care.

I hope that each and everyone of them experience something like what we have endured this year.
BHN

ladjf

(17,320 posts)
5. Two questions: (1) Why are the Republicans so dead set on making the poor suffer? and (2)
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 04:55 PM
Mar 2013

Why doesn't their inhuman position ruin them politically?

gollygee

(22,336 posts)
6. For #2
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 05:00 PM
Mar 2013

They did suffer this past election, though not as much as they should have, and it's certainly taken long enough.

But their line is that poor people, or really anyone who needs anything, is a moocher who has a sense of entitlement. Even though almost everyone (except multi-millionaires I suppose) needs some kind of health care assistance, they manage to put "need for health care assistance" in that same category. If you don't have a job that offers health care assitance, which is not that easy to get anymore, you are a moocher and deserve whatever happens to you.

And we see people who aren't able to become independently wealthy labeled as moochers who made bad choices and therefore deserve to suffer right here on DU. Why wouldn't we see it elsewhere?

Frustrating.

I have no idea re #1. Odd that so many Republicans self-identify as Christians with that viewpoint though.

dawg

(10,624 posts)
9. Why their position doesn't ruin them politically ....
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 05:17 PM
Mar 2013

1. Most voters have health insurance already.
2. 40% of voters do not give a tinker's damn about anyone but themselves and their own family.

lovuian

(19,362 posts)
7. yep die on the street
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 05:03 PM
Mar 2013

let the poor die and decrease the population

didn't Scrooge say that .....Dickens knows just the kind of hypocrites they are

spanone

(135,863 posts)
8. i imagine if they actually 'got their way' no one would get one red cent from the govt.
Mon Mar 11, 2013, 05:14 PM
Mar 2013

except the military industrial complex and wall street bailouts.

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