The Rushpubliscum Healthcare Plan: Grab a Tin Cup, and Hit the Streets
Brother, can you spare a surgery?
The “Party of No” couldn’t have done any better at proving that they have NO ideas, NO clue, and NO compassion.
Just look at the “solution” for a cancerous, uninsured woman that supposed Rushpubliscum bright light Eric Cantor came up with. If you get sick and you want to survive in America, Cantor says you’d better sharpen up your panhandling skills to get the money together for your treatments.
It’s really hard to believe that this punk could have done this with a straight face. Oh, who am I kidding? Of course he can. He’s every bit as stupid as the rest of the Rushpubliscum “leadership,” as well as being callous, cruel, and completely unaware of what life in America is like due to the policies his kind pushed so hard for.
There are delusional idiots who think that these guys are poised for some kind of big comeback in 2010. I really don’t know how that could be, since people like Cantor are writing the Democratic Party’s ads for them.
At the Richmond Times-Dispatch “public square” forum yesterday, Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) fielded open questions from his constituents on the health reform debate for the first time this summer.
Patricia Churchill relayed a story about a close family member who recently lost a high paying job and her health insurance. Churchill told Cantor that her relative was dying of stomach tumors and needs an operation as soon as possible. Cantor responded by suggesting that Churchill’s relative should seek “existing government programs” or find charity.
Cantor, who serves as the chief whip for his party, has said that he cannot support a health reform bill with a public option. But despite his political opposition to government insurance programs, Cantor then emphasized to Churchill that every American should be given an “option” for health care, including a government program:
CHURCHILL: I have a very close relative, a woman in her early forties, who did have a wonderful, high-paying job, owns her own home and is a real contributing member of society. She lost her job. Just a couple of weeks ago, she found out that she has tumors in her belly and that she needs an operation. Her doctors told her that they are growing and that she needs to get this operation quickly. She has no insurance. [...]
CANTOR: First of all I guess I would ask what the situation is in terms of income eligibility and the existing programs that are out there. Because if we look at the uninsured that are out there right now, there is probably 23, 24% of the uninsured that is already eligible for an existing government program [...] Beyond that, I know that there are programs, there are charitable organizations, there are hospitals here who do provide charity care if there’s an instance of indigency and the individual is not eligible for existing programs that there can be some cooperative effort. No one in this country, given who we are, should be sitting without an option to be addressed.
In an interview with ThinkProgress after the event, Churchill explained that her relative, who needs help now, probably won’t qualify for a low-income government program like Medicaid and that there are very long waiting periods for charity programs. Asked about Cantor’s response to her question, Churchill said, “it was helpful in a sense, but of course nowhere near as helpful as having this healthcare reform bill passed so that we could know that she could definitely go and get taken care of.”
Today, Cantor called for “scrapping” President Obama’s proposed public option insurance program.
Of course he did. Cantor has an excellent insurance package, and his rich owners aren’t worried about anything either. As for the uninsured…. Cantor’s views are enough like those of Ebenezer Scrooge to give you chills. About the only thing Cantor didn’t suggest was that they die and decrease the surplus population-but you know he had to be THINKING it. His own words leave no doubt as to that.
Tags: cantor, elitism, healthcare, rushpublicans
September 24th, 2009 at 11:51 am
One of the things that really disturbs me about the Repubs attitude is that after repeated reports about unemployment, the benefit cuts in programs and employer offered health care, the foreclosures, the rise in familial homelessness, the increases in deductibles, co-pays and the general cost of “healthcare” and they still think that brother can you spare a dime is going to take care of the populace. People can barely honor their own obligations and thinking that everything will be solved by charity indicates they are either the party of Pollyanna or they really, really don’t care about anyone other than themselves.
Methinks it’s the latter. And if the media would cover the facts instead of the personalities, the rest of the country would feel the same way.
September 24th, 2009 at 3:35 pm
If you’re homeless, the Repuglicans will give you a place to live. Just send them a stamped, self-addressed envelope.
September 24th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
Cantor is such a shit! I saw him at the one town hall he had tell a woman whose friend needed help that there was all kinds of programs out there for the needy she just had to look. They are friggen assholes!
September 25th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Cantor is a total piece of shit, and an embarrassment to the State of Virginia (where I live and have to see entirely too much of this weasel faced little prick on the local news). He is truly indicative of how far up their own asses the republicans have had their heads for the last 5 decades or so. And to tell a woman to go beg money from her equally broke neighbors? How f-ing stupid is that?
Can you tell I really can’t stand this little turd?