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In reply to the discussion: they don't fucking get it. POOR people can NOT save anything because they don't have $ [View all]mountain grammy
(29,038 posts)Like many other Republicans, Congressman Roger Marshal, R KS. said he wants the health care system to rely on the free market rather than Obamacares regulations. He measures success in how many people can afford to leave the Medicaid program and enter the private insurance market.
Just like Jesus said, The poor will always be with us, he said. There is a group of people that just dont want health care and arent going to take care of themselves.
Pressed on that point, Marshall shrugged.
Just, like, homeless people.
I think just morally, spiritually, socially, [some people] just dont want health care, he said. The Medicaid population, which is [on] a free credit card, as a group, do probably the least preventive medicine and taking care of themselves and eating healthy and exercising. And Im not judging, Im just saying socially thats where they are. So theres a group of people that even with unlimited access to health care are only going to use the emergency room when their arm is chopped off or when their pneumonia is so bad they get brought [into] the ER.
https://theintellectualist.co/republican-lawmaker-the-poor-dont-want-health-care-because-theyre-lazy-and-will-die-anyway/