Apparently, Michele Bachmann is a socialist

[Mustang]

Don't believe me? Read this at the end of the second paragraph:

In its place (meaning Obamacare), I’ll reform the health care system by ending state monopolies on health insurance, introducing real tort reform and providing tax incentives for health care providers who give free health care to those who cannot afford it.

BACHMANN: Little time to save America - Washington Times

 

[eflatminor]

Don't believe me? Read this at the end of the second paragraph:

In its place (meaning Obamacare), I’ll reform the health care system by ending state monopolies on health insurance, introducing real tort reform and providing tax incentives for health care providers who give free health care to those who cannot afford it.

BACHMANN: Little time to save America - Washington Times

No, just another big government meddler like all the rest. All except for Ron Paul of course.

 

[WatertheTree]

Tort Reform = Strip the people of civil liberty to trial by jury and install frivolous state mandate.

Corporate liberalism is destroying this country.

 

[C_Clayton_Jones]

In its place (meaning Obamacare), I’ll reform the health care system by ending state monopolies on health insurance…

Ignorant rightist nonsense.

Introducing ‘competition’ into healthcare will do little or nothing to reduce costs. The difference among various premiums won’t be great enough to create real affordability; if you can’t afford a $1500 per month premium, you’re not going to be able to afford one for $1350 per month after ‘shopping around,’ either.

introducing real tort reform

Another idiotic rightist myth, ‘tort reform’ will do nothing to reduce overall healthcare costs and could actually increase the risk of medical accidents:

Amid the obstructionists’ claims that health care reform is “socialist” or a means of speeding Grandma towards her deathbed, a large focus of the conservative position on health care reform has been that frivolous lawsuits drive up health care costs and require doctors to practice “defensive medicine” that’s costly and wasteful.

So far Republicans have mostly focused on tearing apart any reform with a role for the federal government, portraying it as the government dictating how long old people get to live. But an undercurrent of those complaints is the insistence of doctors, hospitals, insurance companies and ideological conservatives that medical malpractice claims are out of control and a leading cause of rising health care costs.

The health economists and independent legal experts who study the issue, however, don’t believe that’s true. They say that malpractice liability costs are a small fraction of the spiraling costs of the U.S. health care system, and that the medical errors that malpractice liability tries to prevent are themselves a huge cost– both to the injured patients and to the health care system as a whole.

“It’s really just a distraction,” said Tom Baker, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and author of “The Medical Malpractice Myth.” “If you were to eliminate medical malpractice liability, even forgetting the negative consequences that would have for safety, accountability, and responsiveness, maybe we’d be talking about 1.5 percent of health care costs. So we’re not talking about real money. It’s small relative to the out-of-control cost of health care.”

Tort Reform Unlikely to Cut Health Care Costs | The Washington Independent

Bachmann is your classic conservative: all dogma, no facts or common sense.

 

[Political Junky]

Don't believe me? Read this at the end of the second paragraph:

In its place (meaning Obamacare), I’ll reform the health care system by ending state monopolies on health insurance, introducing real tort reform and providing tax incentives for health care providers who give free health care to those who cannot afford it.

BACHMANN: Little time to save America - Washington Times

LOL, she's finished, she just doesn't know it yet. She'll drop out after Iowa.

 

[Greenbeard]

No, just another big government meddler like all the rest. All except for Ron Paul of course.

Federal laws that strip states of the ability to regulate insurance products sold within their borders would seem to be the opposite of what Paul claims to stand for. And it's not as though he isn't suggesting the use of tax credits and deductions and circumstantial payroll tax exemptions as part of his health care agenda.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Michelle is not a socialist,.

She is a big government progressive right wing statist.

 

[Chris]

Well, Bachman did live on a kibbutz....

 

[eflatminor]

No, just another big government meddler like all the rest. All except for Ron Paul of course.

Federal laws that strip states of the ability to regulate insurance products sold within their borders would seem to be the opposite of what Paul claims to stand for. And it's not as though he isn't suggesting the use of tax credits and deductions and circumstantial payroll tax exemptions as part of his health care agenda.

If you think Paul is a big government guy, I'd love to see your candidate.

 

[Quantum Windbag]

Don't believe me? Read this at the end of the second paragraph:

In its place (meaning Obamacare), I’ll reform the health care system by ending state monopolies on health insurance, introducing real tort reform and providing tax incentives for health care providers who give free health care to those who cannot afford it.

BACHMANN: Little time to save America - Washington Times

That is not socialism, it is using the tax code to manipulate social policy. They are equally despicable but not equivalent.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Mustang incorrectly is mistaking statist progressivism (reform of government, business, culture or society by political means) as socialism. Such progressivism may be left or right leaning.