GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’

[Political Junky]

Thankfully he was jeered by constituents for saying it.

GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’


Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) drew intense jeers at a town hall Friday when he defended the GOP’s ObamaCare repeal plan by claiming nobody dies due to lack of access to health care.

One day after the House passed the American Health Care Act, Labrador faced off with constituents at a town hall at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho, according to the Idaho Statesman.
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[eagle1462010]

People have been dying for lack of healthcare for decades.............so the people just let him know to knock off the BS............

The problem with our Healthcare laws are the problems of a country divided. Two sides refusing to negotiate with each other in a give an take process to come up with the best possible law that both sides can live with..............

Instead.........it's get on the back of the bus.........our way or the highway.......

Now.........pretty much the same thing to get it passed........

Tommorrow other side gets power they repeat the process.....

Main problem...............Having dumb asses from both parties rule the dang Nation.

 

[Eaglewings]

People have been dying for lack of healthcare for decades.............so the people just let him know to knock off the BS............

The problem with our Healthcare laws are the problems of a country divided. Two sides refusing to negotiate with each other in a give an take process to come up with the best possible law that both sides can live with..............

Instead.........it's get on the back of the bus.........our way or the highway.......

Now.........pretty much the same thing to get it passed........

Tommorrow other side gets power they repeat the process.....

Main problem...............Having dumb asses from both parties rule the dang Nation.

I bet every single one of the jerks who voted down Obamacare for the pre-excisting will be sitting in church all holy on Sunday.

 

[eagle1462010]

People have been dying for lack of healthcare for decades.............so the people just let him know to knock off the BS............

The problem with our Healthcare laws are the problems of a country divided. Two sides refusing to negotiate with each other in a give an take process to come up with the best possible law that both sides can live with..............

Instead.........it's get on the back of the bus.........our way or the highway.......

Now.........pretty much the same thing to get it passed........

Tommorrow other side gets power they repeat the process.....

Main problem...............Having dumb asses from both parties rule the dang Nation.

I bet every single one of the jerks who voted down Obamacare for the pre-excisting will be sitting in church all holy on Sunday.

It's a Catch 22 subject. Damned if you do and damned if you don't. If you go full left then you think Obamacare was the Holy Grail.....if you go too far right then you have those who can't pay dying do to lack of coverage or medical treatment. The amount designated for Pre-existing high risk pools is not enough.

Which is why I say both sides need to negotiate a deal and not one side or the other wins.

 

[Iceweasel]

People have been dying for lack of healthcare for decades.............so the people just let him know to knock off the BS............

The problem with our Healthcare laws are the problems of a country divided. Two sides refusing to negotiate with each other in a give an take process to come up with the best possible law that both sides can live with..............

Instead.........it's get on the back of the bus.........our way or the highway.......

Now.........pretty much the same thing to get it passed........

Tommorrow other side gets power they repeat the process.....

Main problem...............Having dumb asses from both parties rule the dang Nation.

I bet every single one of the jerks who voted down Obamacare for the pre-excisting will be sitting in church all holy on Sunday.

I don't get the connection? You think Jesus rammed socialism down people's throats?

 

[Mac1958]

GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’

It really is a shame that a person would be so controlled by their ideology that they would think - let alone say - something like that.

Much less a "leader".

What an amazingly shallow statement.
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[JoeMoma]

People will always die due to lack of "healthcare"! No "plan" is perfect. There always be people falling through the cracks in some manner when there are limited resources.

KrautHammer is right, healthcare has become an entitlement and we will be going to a single payer system in a few years. But even under a single payer system, people will die due to lack of "healthcare". We will have the government deciding who is worthy to get the best treatment quickly and who has to wait/die in line waiting for treatment. Just look at our VA system.

 

[Mac1958]

People will always die due to lack of "healthcare"! No "plan" is perfect. There always be people falling through the cracks in some manner when there are limited resources.

KrautHammer is right, healthcare has become an entitlement and we will be going to a single payer system in a few years. But even under a single payer system, people will die due to lack of "healthcare". We will have the government deciding who is worthy to get the best treatment quickly and who has to wait/die in line waiting for treatment. Just look at our VA system.

That's why expanding the Medicare/Medicare Advantage/Medicare Supplement public/private partnership would be a much better approach.
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[Iceweasel]

People will always die due to lack of "healthcare"! No "plan" is perfect. There always be people falling through the cracks in some manner when there are limited resources.

KrautHammer is right, healthcare has become an entitlement and we will be going to a single payer system in a few years. But even under a single payer system, people will die due to lack of "healthcare". We will have the government deciding who is worthy to get the best treatment quickly and who has to wait/die in line waiting for treatment. Just look at our VA system.

Yep. I grew up with military care, was in the military and was civil service at a VA hospital for 3.5 years. It sucks big time and I did see people die with crappy treatment.

 

[JoeMoma]

People will always die due to lack of "healthcare"! No "plan" is perfect. There always be people falling through the cracks in some manner when there are limited resources.

KrautHammer is right, healthcare has become an entitlement and we will be going to a single payer system in a few years. But even under a single payer system, people will die due to lack of "healthcare". We will have the government deciding who is worthy to get the best treatment quickly and who has to wait/die in line waiting for treatment. Just look at our VA system.

That's why expanding the Medicare/Medicare Advantage/Medicare Supplement public/private partnership would be a much better approach.
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That might be what happens.
I am ready to embrace the inevitable.

 

[dannyboys]

GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’

It really is a shame that a person would be so controlled by their ideology that they would think - let alone say - something like that.

Much less a "leader".

What an amazingly shallow statement.
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So nobody died when Obamacare was in place??????????
Watch. The fucking LIB MSM WILL do a daily Trump-hate piece for the next three + years showing how 'poor miss Molly Bell died at home because the evil Trump Care took away the wonderful health care she had when BONOBO was the President.

 

[CarlinAnnArbor]

Government has done so well with roads and bridges and hordes colonizing our country, who could ever oppose giving them control over our healthcare system?!

More government is always the best answer!

 

[Iceweasel]

Government has done so well with roads and bridges and hordes colonizing our country, who could ever oppose giving them control over our healthcare system?!

More government is always the best answer!

Yep. It will take a federal administrative department just for tongue depressors alone.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

People will always die due to lack of "healthcare"! No "plan" is perfect. There always be people falling through the cracks in some manner when there are limited resources.

KrautHammer is right, healthcare has become an entitlement and we will be going to a single payer system in a few years. But even under a single payer system, people will die due to lack of "healthcare". We will have the government deciding who is worthy to get the best treatment quickly and who has to wait/die in line waiting for treatment. Just look at our VA system.

That's why expanding the Medicare/Medicare Advantage/Medicare Supplement public/private partnership would be a much better approach.
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Do you think medicare is a free for all?

 

[task0778]

I thought we had a law that says we can get treatment at an ER without having insurance. So, nobody is dying for lack of insurance unless an ER turned them away and for that there needs to be an investigation, criminal charges, and a lawsuit.

 

[Mac1958]

People will always die due to lack of "healthcare"! No "plan" is perfect. There always be people falling through the cracks in some manner when there are limited resources.

KrautHammer is right, healthcare has become an entitlement and we will be going to a single payer system in a few years. But even under a single payer system, people will die due to lack of "healthcare". We will have the government deciding who is worthy to get the best treatment quickly and who has to wait/die in line waiting for treatment. Just look at our VA system.

That's why expanding the Medicare/Medicare Advantage/Medicare Supplement public/private partnership would be a much better approach.
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Do you think medicare is a free for all?

No.
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[C_Clayton_Jones]

"GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’"

Another lie from the reprehensible right.

“Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.

The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.”

New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage

 

[eagle1462010]

"GOP rep: ‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to healthcare’"

Another lie from the reprehensible right.

“Nearly 45,000 annual deaths are associated with lack of health insurance, according to a new study published online today by the American Journal of Public Health. That figure is about two and a half times higher than an estimate from the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2002.

The study, conducted at Harvard Medical School and Cambridge Health Alliance, found that uninsured, working-age Americans have a 40 percent higher risk of death than their privately insured counterparts, up from a 25 percent excess death rate found in 1993.”

New study finds 45,000 deaths annually linked to lack of health coverage

2009 article. thought Obamacare fixed all that. guess not. huh

 

[BULLDOG]

I thought we had a law that says we can get treatment at an ER without having insurance. So, nobody is dying for lack of insurance unless an ER turned them away and for that there needs to be an investigation, criminal charges, and a lawsuit.

Don't work that way. An emergency room will treat you for anything that is an emergency. If you are in the middle of a heart attack, or a diabetic episode, they will take you right in, After the immediate danger is over, you are own your own. Medical care to prevent it from happening again is not their problem. Regular care is required to manage diseases like that, and the emergency room just doesn't do that. If a baby needs a heart valve, they won't take him until he is actively dying, and at that point, it's often too late to do anything. Yes. Lots of people die from lack of health care, and the emergency room is not, and can not be the answer to that problem.

 

[task0778]

I thought we had a law that says we can get treatment at an ER without having insurance. So, nobody is dying for lack of insurance unless an ER turned them away and for that there needs to be an investigation, criminal charges, and a lawsuit.

Don't work that way. An emergency room will treat you for anything that is an emergency. If you are in the middle of a heart attack, or a diabetic episode, they will take you right in, After the immediate danger is over, you are own your own. Medical care to prevent it from happening again is not their problem. Regular care is required to manage diseases like that, and the emergency room just doesn't do that. If a baby needs a heart valve, they won't take him until he is actively dying, and at that point, it's often too late to do anything. Yes. Lots of people die from lack of health care, and the emergency room is not, and can not be the answer to that problem.

Medicaid? Healthy lifestyle?