TN congresswoman says sick kids shouldn't get insurance...

[Archae]

How about we take away HER free health care?

Meet Diane Black, the new GOP congresswoman from Tennessee’s sixth congressional district. Like most all of her GOP colleagues, she's eager to repeal health care reform. Why? Because she thinks it's a really bad idea to require insurance companies to provide coverage for sick children:

There is a mandate there that insurance companies must insure children up to the age of 24, and what we have found is that there are a lot of insurance companies that are just saying we’re not going to be in this business any longer, because we know that we can’t survive if that’s what we’re going to do.

And the second piece of that was to insure children regardless of their health care history, and as a result of that, I know several health care insurance agents in my district who have said we’re just dropping any insurance for children whatsoever.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2011/1/5/933588/-New-GOP-rep:-Sick-kids-shouldnt-get-health-insurance

[derby378]

1. She represents insurance companies instead of the people who voted her in?

Scratch that - she represents insurance companies, but not her constituents?!?

Why am I not shocked anymore?

[still_one]

4. What if her constiuents feel that way? That is a disturbing thought

[still_one]

2. Besides the immorality of her position it would be much more costly because the only alternative

They would have is the emergency room which is not only more costly, it does't provide preventive care or vaccinations, which the tax payees would still need to pay, unless she believes the poor should die, in which case she is no longer a member of the human race and the lowest scum on earth

[w8liftinglady]

6. exactly what I see on a daily basis

I dropped on my knees and thanked Congress for allowing me to insure my 20 year-old.

Every one of my patients I cared for who would have benefited from insurance...all the 20 year-olds who needed hypertensive meds . all the 30 year-olds who needed insulin, all the heads of families who didn't have cancer diagnosed early because they had no money and waited until the last minute,every teen I saw let a bite fester into a pit that required a partial amputation,every pregnant mom who lost her baby and then her own life because she had no access to prenatal care, every young adult I see who's gums are so inflamed the infection has spread to their trachea,requiring a tracheostomy...

Let her take responsibility for every death that occurs because of her heartless beliefs.

[still_one]

12. In order for them to take responsibility they need to have a conscious /nt

[GeorgeGist]

3. Eat the kids.

Save the Rich.

[DCKit]

5. Someone needs to drag her kicking and screaming through the doors of a church...

just to see if she'll burst into flames.

[jtrockville]

7. Do we need further proof that health insurance is a SCAM?

If they actually have to pay for health care when someone gets sick, then game over?
Why do we accept this?

[Recursion]

8. I think she's taking Huckabee's position, which is somewhat less appalling than presented

Namely, to require pro bono treatment of sick uninsured children, as a way of keeping premiums down.

[surrealAmerican]

9. If what she's saying about the insurance companies is true ...

... (and I somehow don't believe it is), then she is drawing the wrong conclusion from the circumstances. If they refuse to insure children, then the state needs to insure them. This can be done. Many states have children's insurance programs for those that don't qualify for, or can't afford private insurance.

[TheKentuckian]

11. When you actually want to help people AND insist on the for profit middle man in the mix

you create a pretty massive clusterfuck that is a wealth funnel for the insurance cartel.

The entire concept fails when all the downside goes to the state. If you allow that then the insurance companies are placed into a heads they win/tails we lose kinda deal.

The only sensible thing to take away is that the insurance cartel is a counter productive factor in the health care system.

Six trillion little pools under 50 different kinds and degrees of regulation to a for profit organization for a "product" that one cannot determine their needs in advance that renders no service and no tangible product is inherently wasteful, putting the state on the hook to absorb the downside makes it a fairly scammy situation. The people get fleeced both ways, taxes and the blood tithe to the cartel.

[Kennah]

10. Send the little freeloaders to the union workhouses.

:sarcasm: