Sen. Jim Inhofe escaped the Death Panel

[Capt. Obvious]

Sen. Jim Inhofe: Obamacare Might Have Killed Me

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) told the radio station WABC on Sunday he may not have been granted his recent emergency quadruple bypass heart surgery if he was insured under Obamacare, BuzzFeed reported.

"You are talking to someone right now who probably wouldn’t be here if we had socialized medicine in America," he said on host Aaron Klein's radio show, referring to Obamacare.

Inhofe, 79, told Klein he discovered he needed immediate heart surgery for clogged arteries after going in for a routine colonoscopy, and that had he been in a country with “socialized medicine like Obama is trying to impose upon America,” the operation might have been unavailable.

“A person can find out, here in the United States, that he has this emergency situation where he has got to have immediate heart surgery. And if you are in a country other than the United States, a lot of them, you can’t get it done. In my case, with my age, that would have been about a six-month wait. Because I hadn’t had a heart attack,” he said.

We'll have piles of dead old people just like Canada

[hobbit709]

1. What a lying sack of taurine metabolic byproducts.

[riverbendviewgal]

2. What a bunch of BS

He should be called out.

I have a friend who is 80 who had it done up here.

Republicans LIE.

[titaniumsalute]

3. Inhofe's heart was in his ass?

Inhofe, 79, told Klein he discovered he needed immediate heart surgery for clogged arteries after going in for a routine colonoscopy, and that had he been in a country with “socialized medicine like Obama is trying to impose upon America,” the operation might have been unavailable.

Funny, they found Sen. Inhofe's heart shoved up his ass. No wonder he's such a shithead.

[BlueStreak]

5. There is an artery that feeds the colon

If that gets blocked, the colon dies. The colonoscopy probably identified tissues that was dying.

And guess what, the ACA requires all plans to pay for regular preventive testing including colonoscopies.

So in fact, if we can get those 45 million people insured a whole lot of them can have the same privileges that Senator Imhofe enjoys.

[BlueStreak]

6. Instead of the Vitter Amendment, here's what we should have

No Senator or Congressman should be allowed to have any health insurance -- even insurance they buy themselves -- until all Americans have health coverage.

Make those bastards have to worry every day about what happenes if they get sick and you would see a whole different attitude out of them.

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4. And that's a fucking shame