Remember the support at this GOP debate for letting the uninsured die last year?

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http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/13/news/la-pn-ron-paul-gop-debate-20110913

Support at GOP debate for letting the uninsured die

September 13, 2011|By Michael Muskal | Los Angeles Times

<snip>“But he doesn't have that,” Blitzer said. “He doesn't have it and he's — and he needs — he needs intensive care for six months. Who pays?”

“That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks.,” Paul said, repeating the standard libertarian view as some in the audience cheered.

“But congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die,” Blitzer asked.

“Yeah,” came the shout from the audience. That affirmative was repeated at least three times. Paul, who has always had a reputation for being a charitable man, disagreed with the idea that sick people should die, but insisted that the answer to the healthcare problem was not a large government.

“I practiced medicine before we had Medicaid, in the early 1960s when I got out of medical school,” Paul said. “I practiced at Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio. And the churches took care of them. We never turned anybody away from the hospitals. And we've given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves and assume responsibility for ourselves, our neighbors, our friends; our churches would do it. This whole idea — that's the reason the cost is so high. The cost is so high because we dump it on the government. It becomes a bureaucracy. It becomes special interests. It kowtows to the insurance companies, then the drug companies.”

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1. The cost is so high because we allowed

health care corporations to go public and sell stock. And the cost is do high because we allowed health insurance companies to go public and sell stock.

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2. If everyone was making 150 grand a year like we all should be those costs wouldn't seem so high

What really happened was too many people became complacent and wages declined.

Then people tried to make up for those declining wages and rising health care costs with easy credit and by remortgaging their homes for cash until that blew up.

And here we are.

Don

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3. People died 'back in the day' - it's a romantic lie

We tell each other that churches and neighbors footed the bill when tragedy struck.

They didn't have all the resources then - they don't have them now.