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"Rep. Roger Marshall (R-KS) thinks that there is a segment of the population that doesnt want health care and he doesnt want to have to pay for them.
According to an interview with STAT News, the Kansas doctor explained that the Medicaid expansion under Obamacare helps the poor but most of those people just dont want healthcare.
Just like Jesus said, The poor will always be with us, he explained. There is a group of people that just dont want health care and arent going to take care of themselves.
When pressed to clarify he simply shrugged and explained that the Medicaid population is on a free credit card, as a group and that those people dont take care of themselves so theyll end up costing taxpayers more money.
So theres a group of people that even with unlimited access to health care are only going to use the emergency room when their arm is chopped off or when their pneumonia is so bad they get brought [into] the ER, he said."
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/poor-people-dont-want-health-care-just-like-jesus-said-gop-rep-justifies-killing-medicaid/
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,945 posts)What the actual fuck?
still_one
(92,492 posts)GWC58
(2,678 posts)contempt for the poor and less fortunate.
SharonAnn
(13,781 posts)If they don't use preventive care, then we don't incur the cost for that.
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,947 posts)Skidmore
(37,364 posts)of his license to practice medicine.
still_one
(92,492 posts)3catwoman3
(24,088 posts)..."Just like Jesus said," is immediately suspect before you read/listen any further.
This idiot is a goddamned doctor, fer crissake. An obstetrician, no less, caring for women at one of their most vulnerable times of life. I wouldn't want someone as heartless as he obviously is to get anywhere near me. He must have taken the Hypocritic Oath rather than the Hippocratic.
I would like to see the statistics on which he bases his vile statement.
Stinky The Clown
(67,837 posts)Demsrule86
(68,768 posts)still_one
(92,492 posts)surrealAmerican
(11,367 posts)... it won't cost much to insure them.
Of coarse, this is a self-serving lie, so that hardly matters.