Tea Party Nation To Uninsured Americans: ‘Pay For It Yourself’

[ProSense]

Tea Party Nation To Uninsured Americans: ‘Pay For It Yourself’ | A dozen of Obamacare opponents associated with the group Tea Party Nation chanted “pay for it yourself” in front of the Supreme Court early Tuesday morning, implying that uninsured Americans should finance their own health care needs. The chant — which could be alternatively interpreted as a defense of personal responsibility — comes on the day that the justices hear arguments on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act’s individual health care mandate. When ThinkProgress asked a protester if she believed the uninsured should pay out of pocket for such expenses as cancer care or hospitalization, she suggested that they could enroll in the government-sponsored Medicaid program. Watch it:

http://thinkprogress.org/special/2012/03/27/452422/pay-yourself/

No one said they were smart.

[goclark]

1. YEs, we now live in " America The Ugly"

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[GoCubsGo]

2. The "I got mine, screw you" crowd strikes again. n/t

[KansDem]

3. Too bad they didn't feel that way about Bush's needless invasion of Iraq

My taxes were squandered on that senseless business venture that benefitted only a few. Now we're out trillions of dollars.

That's the hypocrisy of the TeaBaggers: It's okay to take my money to enrich the MIC and oil companies, but it's not okay to take their money so all Americans can have health care...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

4. Just wait until something happens to one of these yokels.

They, or a member of their family, will have a bad accident, or get some serious disease, and they'll discover that their insurance that they paid for themselves is insufficient; and sure enough, they can't pay their medical bills themselves, and - oops - they have to file bankruptcy. Which is basically the government saying that you don't have to pay your bills yourself.

Assholes.

[ProSense]

10. She'll just

"enroll in the government-sponsored Medicaid program"

That's from the OP.

These people are morons.

[HughBeaumont]

5. Sure, assrockets . . . I can EASILY pay a $100,000 - $500,000 bill . . . MYSELF.

I can easily afford therapeutic care, specific wheelchairs, physical therapy and home reconstruction in case I get a spinal occlusion . . . MYSELF!!

I can easily afford prescription drugs for a debilitating disease . . . MYSELF!!

I can easily afford a 50,000 to 300,000 dollar surgical bill . . . MYSELF!!!

NFP.

I'll just go to the back where my perpetually leafy money tree grows, go pluck me some cash and just shovel it into Humana, Cigna or WellPoint's coffers!

You TeaPartiers just have ALL the answers . . . why don't more people just listen to y'all???

[DenverDad]

6. The right-wing hate machine

has very efficiently convinced these morons that everything the Obama Administration does is "free stuff for black people" paid for by the tread-upon "real-American" tax payer.

[mac56]

7. Keep your government out of my Medicare!!!!!!!1!!!

[vankuria]

8. Not everyone qualifies for Medicaid

A gov't sponsored medical plan I might add. Obamacare would make everyone qualify for health insurnace. I've gotta stop reading how stupid these idiots are or my blood prssure will go up!

[hifiguy]

9. May their karma come back and bite them

and leave them begging in the streets and diving in dumpsters.

[sinkingfeeling]

11. Chants the folks getting Medicare, Tricare, and Medicaid.