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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOver 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.
bamacrat
(3,867 posts)make it so everyone else dies or leaves and they can have their dream.
gollygee
(22,336 posts)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)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
msongs
(67,438 posts)ladjf
(17,320 posts)Why doesn't their inhuman position ruin them politically?
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)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)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)except the military industrial complex and wall street bailouts.