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Tea Party Debate Audience Cheers Idea Of Letting Sick Man Without Insurance Die (VIDEO)

The last two Republican presidential debates have been some of the most macabre on record. Last time around, at the Reagan Library, the crowd gave the biggest applause of the night to the 234 executions that have occurred in Texas while Rick Perry was governor.

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[sizequeen]

In his defense, the subject of the question was a young single person who *elects* not to buy insurance. Wolf made a big mistake in that phrasing.

He should have asked what should someone who cannot *afford* 200-300 dollars a month do if they get cancer. He should have asked what Paul plans to do about the fact that a person could pay into insurance for years, and then find that their illness is not covered or not fully covered by insurance. Wolf should have asked about the high rate of medical costs related bankruptcies.

This is a horrible, horrible clip that reveals the heart of the GOP and the Liberterians, but Wolf's question was weak-sauce.

[sihaya09]

Agreed.

[erunamiryene]

True, but still. Cheering about ANYONE dying in the hospital when there are means to save them is just fucking terrifying. It's just ... ugh, I don't have words for it.

[moonshaz]

Nauseating would be one possibility. Out of too many to count.

[militsa]

These are important distinctions, and you have a good point. I would like to see the audience's reaction to a better-constructed question. (Though I'm sure they would continue to disappoint me.)

[bnmc2005]

Semantics. Many of those people are "electing" to not get health insurance precisely because they can't afford it.

[red_pill]

not so much. at least in the qustion, it was construted such that

- his got a well paying job
- but dosent buy live insurense

its a poor question. it fails to shed any intresting light on the issue, becous OF CORSE ron pauls gona say "well, he could aford health care but didnt (presumbly, given how the questions set up, to buy jet skis or something in his head) and now his getting his compunse"

a better, and more insightful question, would have phrased it as "didnt pay for health so he had room for his kid in a bigger flat" or whatever, to show that, it was a cant aford sitution. alsa, wolf blitzer didnt.

[bellonia]

Maybe it's just the circles I run in, but nobody I know who "elects" not to buy health insurance for shits and giggles. Usually, it's "I can't afford it" or "I can't afford it and pay rent at the same time" or "I have pre-existing medical conditions".

[hammersxstrings]

i have friends, multiple, that don't buy healthy insurance cause they're lazy. or they were so used to being under their parents plan and aged out and just never did it. not very responsible, i know, but that's how it was *shrug*

[bellonia]

-shrug- there are exceptions to every statement. I'd still say that a) they don't deserve to die for being irresponsible, and b) they are the minority, so even for an example I'd call it inappropriate.

[muppetfromhell]

That reminds me I need to get renters insurance.

[keeni84]

me too

[hammersxstrings]

i would love to see an answer to that, from him. about not being able to afford it. I've always loved that argument from conservatives, who use the bible as a moral shield but don't want to actually live by it.

[bib_specialist]

Because, in Blitzer's world, nobody is uninsured because they can't afford it or their employer doesn't offer it. Blitzer doesn't know anybody personally who is like that, so to him in his elite Villager world they don't exist. Also, if he had asked the question the other way, the GOP might have gotten mad at him and God forbid think he was a liberal, and we can't have that, can we?

[lickety_split]

In his defense, the subject of the question was a young single person who *elects* not to buy insurance.

So he still deserves to die?

[sizequeen]

Did you read the whole post, or stop after that sentence? My opinion of Paul's attitude is perfectly obvious.