GOP Health Care Is An Earned Privilege And Not A Right

[TheMastersNemesis]

According to the Republican running for Gabby Giffords seat in Arizona health care is an earned privilege and NOT a right. How do you earn it as a privilege. Do you have to have earned a million dollars? A billion dollars? How do you earn your health care except with having money?

So if you have no money you cannot or have not earned health care I guess that means if you have a heart attack but have not earned your health care you don't get any medical care. Does that mean that if a Republican has a heart attack and they have not earned the health care that they will not get any treatment? Or is there a double stancard on this issue as well?

I would like them to explain what it means to earn your health care. I would like to know what one does to earn it.

[lumberjack_jeff]

1. Yes. "Who, exactly did you have in mind? Who hasn't earned that privilege?"

"You can just point to them if you don't know their names."

[ashling]

2. Do you have a link ?

[TheMastersNemesis]

3. On Think Progress - Jesse Kelley GOP Candidate.

He said that health care was an earned privilege at an event at La Cholla Country Club.

[PatSeg]

4. Much like VOTING

I heard a republican the other day say that voting is a "privilege" and no one called her on it. I yelled at the TV however.

[gratuitous]

5. And left unsaid . . .

Is that that health care "privilege" is subordinate to the "right" of the "free market" insurers and health care providers to make a profit off your illness or injury. But don't tell anyone, 'kay?

[Johonny]

6. So an unborn child has no right to health care and thus no right to life?

or am I missing something in their totally not thought out argument.

[justgamma]

7. Straight out of the Iowa Repub platform.

".02
We believe that health care is a privilege and not a right. Therefore we strongly oppose any mandatory national health care system including managed care."

[rgbecker]

8. The hope is that the internet will finally provide the information voters need to start making...

intelligent decisions. The idiotic things these GOP candidates say are finally getting out there like never before and I have hope and faith that this information will put an end to these heretofore media protected imbeciles.