GOP Congressman Urges Self-Rationing Of Health Care After Obamacare Repeal

[EricMaundry]

Source: Huffington Post

Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-Mich.) says there’s “definitely” going to be changes in health care delivery after Republicans repeal the Affordable Care Act, and people are going to need to take more responsibility for the cost of their treatment.

He gave a personal example of how do this: When his 10-year-old son recently fell on the driveway one evening and injured his arm, Huizenga waited until the next day to take him to the doctor because it cost less than bringing him to the emergency room that night.

“We weren’t sure what was going on,” the GOP lawmaker said in a Monday interview with a local news outlet, MLive.com. “So I splinted it up, and we wrapped it up, and the decision was, okay, do we go to the E.R.? We thought it was a sprain, but weren’t sure. Took every precaution and decided to go in the next morning.”

It turned out his son’s arm was broken.

At a time when Republicans are broadcasting plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act next year, it’s an unsettling proposition that people with an undiagnosed and potentially serious ailment or broken body part should choose to get treated later, or less often, to save money.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/bill-huizenga-health-care-reform_us_585b0513e4b0d9a5945716c2

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What an asshole.

[sheshe2]

1. I posted about this the other day.

What he did was child abuse and should be charged.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

12. Call Social Services. Seriously.

I remember the earlier post. He has plenty of health insurance. This is child abuse.

[tinrobot]

2. The kid with a broken arm is not taken to the emrgency room because... money?

That's everything wrong with our system right there.

Single payer makes that sort of thing a non-issue.

[sheshe2]

25. He is a GOP REP. He has the money and insurance!

What he did was child abuse.

[Thor_MN]

32. Broken arms are just theories. Can't really know if there is a problem or not.

I hope dipshit handles a heart attack in a similar fashion.

[jberryhill]

51. Scientists disagree on what causes broken arms, or whether to treat them

[Thor_MN]

52. Arms have been breaking for millions of years, can't possibly know if it's man-made or

just a natural cycle.

[jberryhill]

53. Plus, if your arm heals at a different angle, you'll be able to reach things in new ways

Need to scratch your back? No problem with a deformed scapula!

Bones are just a nuisance that get in the way of doing lots of things.

The Big Orthopedic lobby makes billions of dollars off of this "broken bones" scam.

[Thor_MN]

56. Follow the money!!

Bones heal naturally if you don't eat processed foods and avoid vaccines.

[jberryhill]

70. Good point - I never broke a bone until after I was vaccinated!

[ProfessorGAC]

71. Wow, Are You Ever The Optimist!

Well played, Berryhill!

[decrepittex]

67. depends on who the heart belongs to

That's how Republican lawmakers want you to handle a heart attack, I'm sure their response would be quite different, but we can hope the dipshits use a "wait and make sure" approach.

[hatrack]

73. Couldn't agree more!

We need more talk shows where people present both sides of "Broken Bone Theory".

[decrepittex]

66. I doubt money was the issue here.

This politician has the best insurance available or he could have just paid the bill. It's not like politicians are destitute. He is just an asshole and it wasn't his arm. Republicans have the same attitude about being sick as my Army platoon Sgt. when someone asked to go on sick call. "You're sick?.... then die and prove it." That broken arm would have cost a parent about twelve dollars in the Netherlands where they have single payer.

[The Wielding Truth]

3. GOP Huizenga says to let your children suffer to save money. Now if he fell and was in pain would he

wait?

[elmac]

13. Hey, the fascists got away with it in Flint, MI

so they figure hell, why not do it state wide.

[The Wielding Truth]

18. What is still happening in Flint is God awful. It will not be tolerated when it happens to the

spoiled Trumpsters. If they can see it.

[davekriss]

5. Child abuse

[iluvtennis]

46. +1. What an idiot. 1) You don;t take risks with children...what is there was some unseen injury...

..to his head, internal bleeding. And 2) This guy had health insurance to take his kid to the doctor. With no Obamcare, ppl will be uninsured, and no coverage to take their kids to the doctor.

[Matthew28]

6. The entire republican party is evil and heartless

Gulls every freaking one of them.

[Marthe48]

7. Another gop pos

My niece broke her arm about the same age, a green stick break. Her parents took her for immediate treatment. Her broken arm was put in a sling. A few days after she broke it, she tripped against the step railing and jolted her arm. I have never seen her cry like that before or since.

Anybody that would hold treatment on an injured child to save a few bucks is a bastard. Anyone that would use a story like that is a prick bastard.

[keithbvadu2]

8. Huizenga will fight to repeal Congressional healthcare benefits, won't he?

Huizenga will fight to repeal Congressional healthcare benefits, won't he?

Let's see if he practices what he preaches.

[Flatpicker]

9. This is really sick. n/t

[pangaia]

10. This asshole should have his fingers cut off.

Then wait and see how he takes care of himself....

[blue neen]

11. Wow, this guy is cruel.

I feel bad for his son.

[elmac]

14. By the way

this goes against all doctors, Hospitals and even Health insurers policies who know that waiting costs more money down the road.

[Feeling the Bern]

15. Wow, Mr. Gumby. My brain hurts!

[area51]

16. Child abuse.

And it dovetails with what GW Bush said that "we use too much health services." Fuck the libertarian republican party.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. "Took every precaution"?

Sounds like negligence to me.

What if the bone were shattered and lacerated nerves or muscle internally, or
poked through the skin?

[dionysus]

75. Well' if he didnt know it was broken i doubt it was shattered to where the bone would

Be sticking through. But thats not thevpoint i guess. What he did was child abuse. Scumbag.

[The Wielding Truth]

19. Letting his child suffer is cruel. I dispise him. The next day he may still have to go

to emergency for an x-ray. What is wrong with him?

[DonCoquixote]

20. Great way to promote infections and internal bleeding

all so you can feel like some he man.

[still_one]

21. That is child abuse you asshole Huizenga.

[RegexReader]

22. You're going to be surprised at the number

of people that haven't applied for insurance through the ACA.

[napi21]

23. This guy's a jackass. I guess he doesn't know how much a broken bone hurts! If for no

other reason, he should have taken his son to the ER so they could relieve his pain!

[jimlup]

24. The medical data on this is pretty clear

you don't fucking wait on a broken arm.

Fucking idiot.

[TexasBushwhacker]

26. And this man has insurance for his family, no?

And makes $174K per year. So he made his child suffer overnight to save on a fucking copay?

I guess he doesn't know how dangerous a fat embolism is.

I guess he doesn't know if a broken bone isn't set quickly and properly, it has to be rebroken under anesthesia? Sounds expensive? It is!

[Wellstone ruled]

27. This must be the Universal Health Care

every Republican is talking about. Yah you are going to wait till morning with a kid that has a bone sticking out of his arm or leg. Let's get F--n real. More of the Stupid.

[turbinetree]

28. I posted this a couple of days back, with some minor modification........when this broke..

I have some questions there idiot , I was going to call you brainiyak, but you just don't quite make it above the level of S*** coming out of you mouth.

Have you ever gone into ****ing cardic arrest, while you are having a heart attack, there dip****?

Do you think, there doctor whatever you name is, since you think you are one.

Do you think, I should have waited until the next ****ing day, just to make sure that I was in ****ing pain ass****, so that I could save a ****ing buck?

While I was withering on the floor like a dead fish gasping for air and screaming about the pain and wanting it to stop jerk****. And then when the medics got there I had died twice once in the house and once on the way to the hospital, and then waking up and not knowing what the hell happened, because dip*** you don't know, your life is a complete blank.

Do you know dip**** what you see when you go into a cardiac arrest, well let me give you a clue, you don't see angels, you don't see a ****ing light at the end of a tunnel you are ****ing dead.

So why don't you come over to my house and will have a discussion about saving a buck!!!!


Let me tell you how much it cost in just the hospital bill for the three days I was there, over $65,000, let me repeat that, over $65,000

And then we can discuss why your being paid from the tough of the taxpayers to be a complete ass****


So F* ass**** and the ****ing horse you road in on, you are total embarrassment to what constitutes as compassion in your fascists party, and its not having any ----------------------none, zilch, nada,

And has soon a human beings start calling you what you are, an a ****ng that better off they will be and this country has as whole.

And just think you were talking about your own kid, doesn't that constitute child abuse, because if I were to do that in any shape or form, the hospital would have someone from somewhere calling me up.

You do realize that your kid could have developed gangrene are you that ignorant

[Javaman]

29. and someone said that the repukes healthcare plan was, when Obamacare first came out, was...

"don't get sick".

And there it is.

[BigDemVoter123]

30. Self Rationing?

FUCK! They won't have to self ration! The insurance companies will do ALL the rationing for us. They'll be denying coverage, cancelling coverage, changing coverage, demanding HUGE co-pays. . . It won't take ANYTHING to be denied coverage. An appendectomy when you were 12 (You are 38 now)- "REFUSED!"

[Spitfire of ATJ]

36. Remember: Trump says it will all be replaced with "something amazing"....

Or was it "fantastic"?

Some superlative.

Then there's this:

[LovingA2andMI]

31. Glad This Story Is Receiving NATIONAL ATTENTION Now....as the local story on this...

was reported here, on Monday from MLive:

Son's broken arm: Bill Huizenga says people must be responsible for own health care costs

[Akacia]

33. Abuse of a child.

I hope someone turned him in what a complete dick

[Spitfire of ATJ]

34. Why do I think this whole story is a lie?

[dhol82]

54. Did you watch the video?

Sorry, no fake news here.
Man feels virtuous for him and his son.
We have no information about what his son felt.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

64. Watch him back off on his claim when someone mentions child abuse.

[moondust]

35. Somebody needs to educate Billy.

Countries that have universal health care have ways of discouraging people from running to the doctor every time they get the sniffles.

Maybe Billy should be charged with child neglect for failing to promptly seek medical attention for his son when indicated.

[Generic Other]

37. If he'd do this to his own son

we know for sure what he'd do to yours.

[C Moon]

38. Or, you can reset the broken bone yourself, and not spend one red cent.

[Dave Starsky]

49. Or don't even reset it. Just let it heal naturally!

Save the cost of bandages and plaster of Paris. That's how our Founding Fathers did it. If it was good enough for them, it's good enough for us.

Republicans really do have this healthcare thing figured out!

[dhol82]

55. Yeah, there must be a YouTube video teaching you how to do that!

[C Moon]

65. :D

[RandySF]

39. I know of a couple in CA who got into trouble with Child Protective Services

Because they waited to get their kids' leg checked out.

[TonyPDX]

40. Trump supporters apparently don't get sick.

[Stonepounder]

41. So, I guess the night I passed out in the garage we should have waited a couple of days

to see if I lived?

(Note: the faint was caused a Atrial Fibrillation, but in the course of checking to see what was wrong, the doctors found 3 blocked coronary arteries and a hanging clot, colloquially referred to as a 'widow-maker'.) I arrived at the ER at about 11:00 pm on a Saturday night and was undergoing open heart surgery at 6:30 am Monday morning.

Yeah, we should have self-rationed.

[Hekate]

42. I grew up poor. I can tell you about "self rationing" .....

When I found myself divorced with 2 preschoolers I went out of my way to get a job with health care benefits. The job was not well paid (secretary) but by God I took the kids to the doctor when they needed it.

My parents did the best they could in the years they were raising us 4 kids, but my brother had untreated asthma, my sister got one strep throat after another, I broke a toe and my overwhelmed mother just barked at me to straighten it out myself and tape it, we had a staph infection that ping-ponged around the house for a year before my mother finally defeated it with bleach, boiling water, and a product called Perma-Chem which is probably illegal now. (As an adult I realized that a couple of visits to the doctor and some shots of penicillin could have stopped that infection cycle in its tracks.)

Self-rationing my rosy Irish ass.

[LaydeeBug]

43. Someone should report him for child abuse. nt

[Rex]

44. Thank you GOPuke Fuckface for proving how little you care about humanity.

We can expect 4 years of a hard fucking.

[SamKnause]

45. Republican Health Care Plan

1. Don't get sick !

2. If you do get sick, die quickly !!!

[duffyduff]

47. Asshole belongs in jail, not in Congress. NT

[tom_kelly]

48. I don't believe for a second that his son ever got hurt

and wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't have a son. A bunch of evil liars they are.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

50. And people get pissed when you call these maggots sociopaths. nt

[hibbing]

57. And he has insurance too!

What a colossal delta bravo.


Peace

[longship]

58. That's my fucking congress critter!!!!

Expressed my outrage when I read this. Won't do any good, but at least his office knows.

[muntrv]

59. Child abuse.

[LonePirate]

60. Perhaps if post-secondary education wasn't so expensive in this country ...

Then the supply of health care professionals in this country would be large enough to eliminate rationing or reduce costs.

[kacekwl]

61. How the fuck can I ration more than

Not going to the doctor , dentist because I can't even afford the copay. I had to go to a gastro doc for severe abdomen pain and still hounded daily for the thousands charged for a 10 min. Exam and a 5 min procedure. That was 2 years ago.

[Emilybemily]

62. That is child abuse

He needs to be investigated and perhaps have his children taken away.

[librechik]

63. IOW "GO DIE!" hint, hint n/t

[Blue_Tires]

68. Since Huizenga is already incredibly wealthy

I'll just say he's a cheap fucking asshole...

[jzodda]

69. This is one reason why diabetics like me are terrified

I cant self ration even if i wanted to.

they are literally playing with my life and im disgusted

[47of74]

72. Fuck this guy.

Fuck him. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Double fuck him, in fact.

I ain't fucking waiting until morning if it's serious.

[TexasBushwhacker]

74. Self-rationing? Can we make our own death panels? N/t