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Eliot Rosewater

(34,288 posts)
Tue Mar 7, 2017, 01:16 PM Mar 2017

Those darn phones are expensive: Fox News helps GOP rep. save face after comparing health care to [View all]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/those-darn-phones-are-expensive-fox-news-helps-gop-rep-save-face-after-comparing-health-care-to-iphones/


‘Those darn phones are expensive’: Fox News helps GOP rep. save face after comparing health care to iPhones


A republican lawmaker headed over to Fox News to walk back his widely criticized comparison of iPhones and health care.

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) told CNN’s “New Day” that purchasing health care was a matter of personal responsibility, which he argued should not require government intervention.

“Maybe, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds of dollars on, maybe they should invest in their own health care,” Chaffetz said Tuesday morning


My entire body trembles in rage and anger when I see or hear any republican speak, especially this filthy prick.

You are taking my tax dollars to destroy my country and withold healthcare from me and my family. I just wish the idiots who vote for you would wake the god damn fuck up.
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Wait. So you can get full healthcare for the price of an iPhone? leftstreet Mar 2017 #1
GOP math: $20 for a pill that costs $800. Initech Mar 2017 #4
I'm going to have to profile Chaffetz in "People Who Somehow Got Elected" next week. Initech Mar 2017 #2
I can tell you how he got elected. Hate. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #3
"My entire body trembles in rage and anger..." dchill Mar 2017 #5
I wanna know why the christian right isnt ANGRIER than I am. I dont claim to be Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #6
I am an avowed agnostic... dchill Mar 2017 #9
I actually have been a student of Jesus to one degree or another during my life. Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #11
"nonsensical judgment..." isTHE basis of their so- called religion. dchill Mar 2017 #14
hey Chaffetz - my lifesving operation cost $200K; my chemo cost $250K wordpix Mar 2017 #7
He has his, and will forever given the job he stole. So he doesnt care Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #8
GOP cruel, they should be linked to this word. Would love to give them the health care wordpix Mar 2017 #17
GOP..government shouldn't tell you how to eat healthy but they should tell you if you can have a nikibatts Mar 2017 #10
Incredibly insensitive with a side order of cruel gratuitous Mar 2017 #12
And when he makes comments like this, millions of middle class COVERED white Eliot Rosewater Mar 2017 #13
Everyone knows people on food stamps use their iPhones to find stores with the best crablegs DefenseLawyer Mar 2017 #15
The arrogance coming from the GOP is hopefully going to be their downfall in 2018. manicraven Mar 2017 #16
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