The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

    Let the uninsured die on the door step of the ER

    By Flavius on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 3:25pm |

    Here's the report that's going viral today.

    http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-ron-paul-gop-debate-20110913,0,3161863.story?track=rss

    I deeply disagree with those who applauded the idea of letting the uninsured die.

    But of course that's what we do already,  but we can hide it from ourselves by not looking very hard.

     

    And it's why I back Obamacare.

     

    Comments

    Has anyone mentioned the ridiculous part of Wolf Blitzer's question? That is

    “A healthy, 30-year-old young man has a good job, makes a good living, but decides: You know what? I'm not going to spend 200 or 300 dollars a month for health insurance, because I'm healthy...."

    Hah hah, you too funny grandpa Wolfy. I betcha there's a lot of healthy young singles in many states who would like to know the particulars about that top secret health insurance plan Wolf knows about that costs $200 a month (especially the ones who are having a hard time making those student loan payments.)

    ....Yet the average insurance premium for a single adult is $900 a month, according to a spokesman for the State Insurance Department.....

    For Uninsured Young Adults, Do-It-Yourself Health Care
    By Cara Buckley, New York Times, February 17, 2009


    by artappraiser on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 8:18pm

    Presumably those questions, certainly the early ones, aren't prepared by  Blitzer himself but by the CNN worker bees who would have had the time to do enough research to get the numbers right. 

    But it's not unreasonable to expect that Blitzer himself should have known enough to go tilt on that  $200 to $300 estimate.

     

    But most importantly , the question itself was a good one ,per se and because it allowed those  tea partiers to expose their indifference to the welfare of their fellow citizens.

     

     


    by Flavius on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 9:41pm

    Very good point, Artsy, I completely missed it before. $200--how ridiculous! And Wolfy and John King looked to be on speed, as if they were making history, and being soooo relevant in defining the political process.


    by Oxy Mora on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 9:42pm

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    Oh my my . . .

    Some things never change in bloggerland.

    Has anyone mentioned the ridiculous part of Wolf Blitzer's question?

    Not really ... I'd venture to say that most folks 'round here who tuned in and put themselves through hell of watching that crap were too busy picking their jaws off the floor after realizing what Paul actually said in his inimitable septuagenarian stammering way.

    Now there's a granpa for ya'.

    ~OGD~


    by oldenGoldenDecoy on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 1:28pm


    by cmaukonen on Tue, 09/13/2011 - 9:55pm

    Wrong then, wrong now


    by Flavius on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 5:21am

    Ron Paul's former campaign managed died from pneumonia, penniless and uninsured in June, 2008 after Paul pulled out of the race. He was unable to afford insurance because of a pre-existing condition. You'd think Ron Paul as a physician would feel somewhat differently knowing the facts of his former campaign manager's death. Republicans and those people in the audience ought to be ashamed of themselves, this is not the country we are supposed to be.

    http://gawker.com/5840024/ron-pauls-campaign-manager-died-of-pneumonia-p...

     


    by tmccarthy0 on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 9:48am

    Sigh.

    People can be whatever they are  led to be- yeah, within limits..

    However pretentious this sounds , I think of the last pages of the Brothers Karamzov -which I read 60 years ago-as Alosha? says to the young men to whom he's providing  guidance that they'll be able to look back in the future on this having been a period when they did and thought the right thing.


    by Flavius on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:19am

    Karamazov , and Aloysha, maybe


    by Flavius on Wed, 09/14/2011 - 10:22am