GOP Tea Party Debate: Audience Cheers, Says Society Should Let Uninsured Patient Die

A bit of a startling moment happened near the end of Monday night's CNN debate when a hypothetical question was posed to Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas).

What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? Who pays for his coverage? "Are you saying society should just let him die?" Wolf Blitzer asked.

"Yeah!" several members of the crowd yelled out.

JoanB wrote:mistermunster

gettheminNOVEMBER wrote:Democrat Alan Grayson Claims "Republicans Want You To Die" (Longer Version)

He was RIGHT!

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mistermunster wrote:Sorry, this nation has been PROGRAMMED to get that GOLD ring any which way. Now IF the MONEY mongers DIDN'T push it. Then things would be different. It's been YES you CAN HAVE IT.....Sure NO PROBLEM.....LIVE YOUR "American" DREAM.....SIGN HERE. Because the SELLERS are driven BY PROFIT by ANY means. SO who is WRONG in All this? The Snake Oil Salesman who peddled poison with a lie or the buyer who died drinking it. Well the issue is WE should have been PROTECTED from this by inforced regulations but that TOO failed. Yet the party that SOLD us this let the "FREE"market do as they please just don't get it...Oh wait....PROFIT....PROFIT...PROFIT....It's ALL about MONEY and HOW they can LIE, CHEAT and STEAL it from you by ANY means necessary. This is the problem of this nation. MONEY trumps EVERYTHING else. All the good intentions be damned. MONEY wins. This is where we are at now. We ALL need money to LIVE but 20% of the population that CONTROLS it....DICTATES when you can have it, How MUCH you get or IF you get it at ALL. Or worst yet...HAVING the ability to make it. I don't buy into this YOU too can succeed. Maybe before but not now. They hold ALL the cards now and we are yelling at the wind. They fleeced us with the having the DREAM too BS now we get blamed for wanting it. It's ALL about money and HOW to get it. And than now too is a flawed system.

DesperateInRI wrote:

What do you tell a guy who is sick, goes into a coma and doesn't have health insurance? ...."Are you saying society should just let him die?" Wolf Blitzer asked.

"Yeah!" several members of the crowd yelled out.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/12/tea-party-debate-health-care_n_959354.html

Scrooge: Are there no Prisons? No Workhouses?

Businessman: Y-y-yes Sir, but many would rather die than go there.

Scrooge: If they would rather die, then let them do so and decrease the surplus population!

stansmad wrote:The audience cheered ? I heard TWO people holler out "YEAH". Politics at it's dirtiest.

stansmad wrote:The audience cheered ? I heard TWO people holler out "YEAH". Politics at it's dirtiest.

lendmeflight2 wrote:
What if the guy is alone and in a car accident. He is in a coma and can't answer any questions or present proof of insurance. Do we let him die just in case he is uninsured?.

JoanB wrote:

lendmeflight2 wrote:
What if the guy is alone and in a car accident. He is in a coma and can't answer any questions or present proof of insurance. Do we let him die just in case he is uninsured?.

Maybe we could have our insurance ID numbers tattooed on our arms...oh wait...doh! (Hope they didn't hear that)

tristen303 wrote:Ah Munster yes business is driven by profit, something that is good and were it not for those evil profits the left wouldn’t be able to pay for all the BS they do (the left certainly couldn’t generate the profit it’s much easier they’ve found to point fingers cry foul and extend the hand). Without profit this country wouldn't exist, the worlds economies wouldn’t exist and with the apparent view of the world’s populace (trying to doing anything they can to become Americans or use America) I think that repudiates any comments from the individuals living here protected under the freedoms that those profits paid for in hard work and blood. Perhaps there is another country that is more suitable for individuals of your political persuasion? I’m curious as to which one and if such a fantasy country exists then why not move there? Throwing stones while living in a glass house isn’t noble, and stating the obvious isn’t bad, but the entire story should be told not just the parts that fit the version that suits the problem. Ah the left all the freedoms and none of the responsibilities to go with it. Is the right right? No they are not but for some reason you have to go to them to get paid so if the right is so wrong and you’re sick of going them to get your pay do it yourself, ah wait now comes the lecture of how you can’t anymore the system is gamed….I know. I find it funny though that if you need a majority to get elected (and as you so often point out the right is only for the wealthy and the wealthy only represent what 5% let’s give you 10%) and if the Dems need the poor and the Repubs need the wealthy then it makes sense that for each side to win a majority that they have their base growing and strong……so let’s see the Repubs need people that see wealth creation work, towards it or become wealthy and the Dems need people that don’t believe in wealth creation or that you can achieve it (and that those that do are the elites or robber barons or whatever cool left term of the week needs to be used). Which side would I want to be affiliated with? One needs more wealthy to get elected…..the other needs more poor and needy to stay elected ah wait I forgot that’s where the part of the electorate is stupid and manipulated (unless of course they vote Dem then they are smart) but saying that isn’t elitist is it your just helping he little people. But my question to you is then if they voted right leaning and never moved up the income ladder or never saw the “golden ring” (love that term) as being attainable then your side would be elected all week long and especially on Sunday. They certainly would vote Repub after never getting ahead ever, yet they do. In this coming election Obama sadly will lose, the Dems will lose the Senate and all the elitists on here can rant and rave about how stupid people are (except for them) and point fingers to the other elitist (not them) you know the guys that got elected, ah the hypocrisy of it.

ranbrow123 wrote:

tristen303 wrote:Ah Munster yes business is driven by profit, something that is good and were it not for those evil profits the left wouldn’t be able to pay for all the BS they do (the left certainly couldn’t generate the profit it’s much easier they’ve found to point fingers cry foul and extend the hand). Without profit this country wouldn't exist, the worlds economies wouldn’t exist and with the apparent view of the world’s populace (trying to doing anything they can to become Americans or use America) I think that repudiates any comments from the individuals living here protected under the freedoms that those profits paid for in hard work and blood. Perhaps there is another country that is more suitable for individuals of your political persuasion? I’m curious as to which one and if such a fantasy country exists then why not move there? Throwing stones while living in a glass house isn’t noble, and stating the obvious isn’t bad, but the entire story should be told not just the parts that fit the version that suits the problem. Ah the left all the freedoms and none of the responsibilities to go with it. Is the right right? No they are not but for some reason you have to go to them to get paid so if the right is so wrong and you’re sick of going them to get your pay do it yourself, ah wait now comes the lecture of how you can’t anymore the system is gamed….I know. I find it funny though that if you need a majority to get elected (and as you so often point out the right is only for the wealthy and the wealthy only represent what 5% let’s give you 10%) and if the Dems need the poor and the Repubs need the wealthy then it makes sense that for each side to win a majority that they have their base growing and strong……so let’s see the Repubs need people that see wealth creation work, towards it or become wealthy and the Dems need people that don’t believe in wealth creation or that you can achieve it (and that those that do are the elites or robber barons or whatever cool left term of the week needs to be used). Which side would I want to be affiliated with? One needs more wealthy to get elected…..the other needs more poor and needy to stay elected ah wait I forgot that’s where the part of the electorate is stupid and manipulated (unless of course they vote Dem then they are smart) but saying that isn’t elitist is it your just helping he little people. But my question to you is then if they voted right leaning and never moved up the income ladder or never saw the “golden ring” (love that term) as being attainable then your side would be elected all week long and especially on Sunday. They certainly would vote Repub after never getting ahead ever, yet they do. In this coming election Obama sadly will lose, the Dems will lose the Senate and all the elitists on here can rant and rave about how stupid people are (except for them) and point fingers to the other elitist (not them) you know the guys that got elected, ah the hypocrisy of it.

Too poor to be a republican, too smart to use paragraphs.

ranbrow123 wrote:
Too poor to be a republican, too smart to use paragraphs.

tristen303 wrote:Actually I don't have a computer I have to use my phone (can't afford both) anything long is difficult to correct due to screen size, I'm sure you understand.