Chaffetz: Poor people would have health coverage if they didn't spend money on that new iPhone

[PatrickforO]

146. OK, aside from the repugnance of this comment, let's look critically at the claim that

people have choices. What if your're priced out of the market and can't afford coverage even if you give up your iPhone and every other thing that makes life in any way worth living - rid yourself of cable, television, everything but basic furniture and by generic everything. You probably STILL won't be able to afford healthcare on the ol' wild-and-wooly wide-open rodeo that is the 'free market'.

So, what's your choice and what is freedom?

Well clearly you are free to die. The GOP just hopes you have the decency to do it out of sight so it isn't awkward for them.

As to choices? Oh, gosh, we have to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps, so you clearly haven't been working hard enough! Get a third job! So no fun, EVER, and work 18 hours a day.

And this is a great country? An EXCEPTIONAL county?

Hey, for the upper echelon, it IS! It's GREAT! And YOU can aspire to that, too! You just have to work really, really, really, really, really, REALLY HARD. Oh, and it would help if your parents were rich so they could send you to get a good college education at a good school, and you wouldn't have to graduate $100K in debt.

Oh, and it would help if you are white.

And it is better if you're not Muslim, or Jewish, or African American or Hispanic.

And it's better if you're not a woman, and if you are, be white and childless, because the 'ol 'free' market is BRUTAL to single moms.

So, you get the idea. The guy is a piece of smug Republican shit.