Bachmann: The Obama Administration Plans To Turn Us Into Castro's Cuba With Health Care Plan

[babylonsister]

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Bachmann: The Obama Administration Plans To Turn Us Into Castro's Cuba With Health Care Plan
By Eric Kleefeld - July 27, 2009, 10:46AM


Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has done it again, Think Progress reports. On Friday, Bachmann said the public-option proposal is in fact a plan to turn America into Cuba, by driving the private health insurance industry out of business:

"What the Obama administration will do with health care is make us like Havana in 1959, when Castro came in," said Bachmann. "In other words, no private health insurance company will be able to write another health insurance policy once the government takeover comes into place."

This is not the first time that Bachmann has likened President Obama's America to Castro's Cuba. Back in March, during her infamous call for revolution, she also said: "Do we get into an inner tube and float 90 miles to some free country? There is no free country for us to repair to. That's why it's up to us now."

She's got a point. If America becomes like every other industrialized nation and guarantees universal health care, where will people take refuge when they yearn to breathe free and go bankrupt from crushing medical costs?

[NavyMom]

1. This heffa is crazy as a rabbit on crack..nt

[Grey]

3. Welcome to DU.

Nice to meet you.

[peekaloo]

4. lol and welcome to DU!

although no need to denigrate crack rabbits with the comparison. ;-)

:hi:

[NavyMom]

5. Thank you all for the welcome..nt

[Skink]

2. Can we keep Obama as president for 45 years then?

:grouphug:

[ejpoeta]

6. well, i don't see what is so bad about that when it comes to healthcare....

even if she is wrong.

[babylonsister]

7. I know, this is supposed to be a bad thing? nt

[kestrel91316]

8. If being completely unable to afford medical care is "freedom",

I want none of it.

[surrealAmerican]

14. That's exactly what these lunatics keep saying.

I find it hard to imagine that there are people who believe them.

[frazzled]

9. Arriba!

That's really all I have to say.

[harun]

10. Revolucion en los estados unidos !!!

[sellitman]

11. I hope Palin picks her as her running mate in 2012

That would insure another Obama win. Probably of epic proportions.
Two batshit Fundies would only attract the 20% crazies of the Republican party.
The rest would either vote for Barack or stay home.

[Catshrink]

12. Yep, batshit crazy

and I'm lovin' it. Palin/Bachman 2012

[MineralMan]

13. Ah...yes....Palin/Bachmann 2012...Quitter and the Dunce

Has a nice ring to it, I think...