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Wow, listen to these fools. Ron Paul is out of his mind. He actually thinks churches will pay peoples medical bills. The teabagger crowd cheered for this nonsense and the rest of the candidates appeared to agree. Just let the uninsured die, which includes children. It's a damn shame that we've reached this point where people such as this are vying for an opportunity to be the leader of our country.
This is a tough issue because being conservative and for smaller government you don't want the government to force people to buy a product like health insurance but in the same token we don't want to pay for someone who as the question was posed makes plenty of money but just decided they would rather have a new car or buy an 8 ball and a hooker rather than health insurance.
It's hard to feel bad for someone who chooses not to buy insurance knowing the consequences and then wants me to pay their way
Like Ron Paul said hospitals, non profits, churches step in and care for people. I recently had a large hospital bill, hospital had a program taht helps people with low incomes they picked up 5k worth of hospital bills for me that others had donated. You know what I did, I went ahead and donated $500 to this fund with my income tax refund.
Wow, listen to these fools. Ron Paul is out of his mind. He actually thinks churches will pay peoples medical bills. The teabagger crowd cheered for this nonsense and the rest of the candidates appeared to agree. Just let the uninsured die, which includes children. It's a damn shame that we've reached this point where people such as this are vying for an opportunity to be the leader of our country.
I'm a big fan of Ron Paul, but I think he misses the mark on this one. The answer should have been that with a reformed health care system and limited government interference, the person in the scenario that Wolf brought up would not have the choice of $300/mo. health insurance or none at all. With the removal of government interference and increased competition in health care, costs should move back to something more reasonable so that a perfectly healthy 30 yr old male shouldn't have to spend almost $4,000 a year for health insurance.
When the audience shouted "yes", I was astonished. It's crazy that this is the type of crowd that will for the most part decide which Republican will run against Obama.
rfr69, The crowd response was gutteral, not thoughtful. It differed little from cheering on a hanging 150 years ago, no doubt. It displayed the worst attributes of semi-human behavior.
For a change, the crudest people were in the audience.
In fairness, 2 years ago, there was a very civil TP rally 1 mile from here, at City Hall. Those people no doubt are ashamed of the crowd tonight..night and day.
Correct. Also exposing the TP's worst attributes, which should for good, deep six it in swing states.
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