GOP Doesn't Care if You Die

[davekriss]

5. That is just so f*cking INSANE!

"2. A rejection of health care egalitarianism, namely a recognition that the wealthy will purchase more and better health care than the poor. Trying to equalize health care consumption hurts the poor, since most feasible policies to do this take away cash from the poor, either directly or through the operation of tax incidence. We need to accept the principle that sometimes poor people will die just because they are poor. Some of you don’t like the sound of that, but we already let the wealthy enjoy all sorts of other goods — most importantly status — which lengthen their lives and which the poor enjoy to a much lesser degree. We shouldn’t screw up our health care institutions by being determined to fight inegalitarian principles for one very select set of factors which determine health care outcomes."

We can elect to grant our selves rights in a truely democratic society, such as egalitarian health care. Sheese! And it does not have to take money out of the pockets of the poor, we can just resume Republican Eisenhower tax rates on the rich!

Argh! This just raised my blood pressure by ten points!