WTF?!?! @Mike_Pence: Millions losing health insurance is the very essence of living in a free soci

[riversedge]

Paul Ryan basically said the same thing a while ago.--Health insurance is a matter of Liberty--that People can choose not to buy h. insurance (but we can not buy it if have no money to do so!!)




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WTF?!?! @Mike_Pence: Millions losing health insurance is “the very essence of living in a free society” http://shareblue.com/pence-millions-losing-health-insurance-is-the-very-essence-of-living-in-a-free-society/#.WXoIlOUlbfk.twitter … via @owillis

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Pence: Millions losing health insurance is “the very essence of living in a free society”
By Oliver Willis | July 26, 2017

Mike Pence callously described the scenario in which millions would lose coverage under the Republican health care bill as "the very essence of living in a free society," dismissing the harsh reality of such a negative policy.
Fox News

Mike Pence has a seriously disturbing view of freedom.

Sitting down for a prime-time interview with Fox News host and favorite of neo-Nazis Tucker Carlson, Pence offered an offensive take on the devastating result of the health care repeal bill that he, Donald Trump, and congressional Republicans are insistently pushing and which would cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance.

Carlson asked Pence if the repeal effort would be “worth it” if the outcome led to “millions fewer Americans” having health insurance.

In response, Pence said “the very essence of living in a free society is people get to make their own decisions,” accepting the destructive results of the legislation as the price of doing business — and enacting the tax cuts for the wealthy tucked inside the bill.

CARLSON: But if after a year or two of giving people more choices, millions fewer Americans had health insurance, would that be worth it?

PENCE: Well, it’s — it’s — the very essence of living in a free society is people get to make their own decisions. But the president and I truly believe that if you lower the cost of health insurance, if you give Americans more choices in health insurance, that more Americans will choose, more employers will choose, to have and offer health insurance to their employees and have health insurance for their families.

[MineralMan]

1. War is Peace!

All Newspeak...

[Vinca]

2. Putting the absolute craziness of this statement aside, what the GOP fails to remember when

they opine on the freedom to not have health insurance is that when the uninsured person falls down a flight of stairs and breaks both legs, it's taxpayers and people covered by insurance who end up with the bill for their care.

[C_U_L8R]

3. But hey... Republicans offer choices

Pay or die.

[Zoonart]

9. The Republicans are all about choices dontcha know...

unless there are vaginas involved..or you know... the gay.

[MindPilot]

24. Or cannabis.

Apparently Pence subscribes to the Bobby McGee* definition of freedom.





*"freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"

[onethatcares]

35. they're all about states rights too exept

when it comes to pot and abortions.

[Zoonart]

38. Yep.

That'd be them.

[dalton99a]

4. They need to privatize air and make people pay for it

FREEDOM!

[Iliyah]

5. Lets do this. How about for freedum sake, a-hole pence,

take your family off of any health care insurance for like forever, and come back to me with your "freedom" conclusion.

[elehhhhna]

6. Putin's back up cock holster

[gohuskies]

7. Pence, Lyin' Ryan and the Turtle are modern day Marie Antoinettes

Disgusting disregard for doing the right thing in order to line the pockets of the likes of the Kochsuckers.. We're in for really chaotic downfall of true American ethics and values.

[atreides1]

12. If only!

There was a chance they ended up like her...only kidding!!!

[roamer65]

8. Next month's chocolate ration will be increased to 23 grams, from 25 grams.

Double plus good!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. He is so fucking vile!

[bronxiteforever]

11. An American VP who hates Americans. Pence vision of the us is

Where nobody has health insurance but everyone has a gun and there are only white people and men have all the jobs.

[eleny]

13. It's only a choice if you can afford it but decide not to buy it

[smirkymonkey]

25. Thank YOU!

Are these assclowns really that dense or do they just think we are too stupid to see through their bullshit?

[eleny]

31. the base is so blinded by their various hatreds that they're eating shit and believing it's candy

[GallopingGhost]

14. He's a piece of shit

and an embarrassment to Christians everywhere.

Don't count on those angel wings just yet, Mikey.

[Glimmer of Hope]

15. Ugh. Simple minded idiot.

[greymattermom]

16. So if folks are free from having health insurance

and emergency rooms free from having to treat them?

[Bad Thoughts]

17. As they say, Arbeit macht frei! eom.

[Lifelong Protester]

18. Yep, he is the essence of

"up is down".

[Moral Compass]

19. This is why some are not calling for Trump's impeachment

If Trump goes then we have Pence. If
Pence goes then Ryan. If Ryan goes then Hatch.

Having someone as President that thinks like this is truly horrifying to contemplate.

Using this reasoning if are not able to afford water, food, Healthcare...then you are free to die. The blessings of liberty I suppose. Freedom is just another word for nothing left to lose (Me and Bobby McGee).

There are so many in the Republican Party that think this way... Is it a virus? A worm from outer space that has infected their brains?

They call themselves Christian, but in their hearts they would be at home with the worshippers of Baal.

[haele]

23. Actually, I think Baal would be more honorable and just than the "god" of the Evilangelicals.

Baal was a Caananite weather god who hated snakes, the brother of Hadad, a fertility god. He also hated snakes, just like the other period Levant weather deities eventually known as Yaweh or El. He had seasonal sacrifices, along with the typical emergency sacrifices. Like most gods of the time, he was pretty capricious. But other the fear of pissing him off and suffering bad weather, he was generally considered beneficial, and when his worshipers merged him with his brother, he turned into the head of gods or a god of kingship - because good harvests, healthy livestock, and continuing pleasant weather was critical for a tribe's long term survival.

The monotheistic Israelites considered him more of competition to their god, rather than particularly evil god. Since their god was jealous, Baal worship had to be totally discredited.

Mammon, now - that's the one the Evilangelicals really worship. FWIW, Mammon isn't really a god, it's the "spirit" or practice of love for immediate power and all it's trappings over all else - a totally nihilistic philosophy and spirituality. Sort of like the "Dark side of the Force"

Haele

[sprinkleeninow]

28. Infestation of the moral majority pest. n/t

[politicat]

20. Pence has never experienced a day of financial insecurity. Not one.

Born in 59, his parents owned a chain of gas stations (at which they didn't shift work) partially inherited. 60s gas stations were service stations -- oil, tires, repairs and fuel. Service stations printed money in the 60s. He was too young for Vietnam (turned 18 in '77) so that was never a worry for him. Went to college on his parents' dime, through law school. Spent almost no time in private practice, probably because his extremely limited record doesn't look very good. Used campaign funds to support himself (not illegal at the time); seems to have run for the contributions at least twice.

He's been on Wingnut Welfare or the public purse since 1988.

Dollars to donuts, he's never dealt with any of the household paperwork. That's "Mother's" job. He maybe signs a policy once a year, maybe sees a doctor when Mother tells him to go, doesn't make his own appointments, isn't his own healthcare advocate, never took a day of sick/vacation/PTO to care for his own children. If she got hit by the proverbial bus, he would have no clue how to run the household.

He is so isolated in his privileged bubble he has no clue. He has no concept of a "free society" because he's never been part of one that wasn't built for his benefit. He's always had the cheat codes. And it shows. He's an idjit, as my grandfather used to say.

[hunter]

32. Oh my! I didn't realize he was that young.

I figured he was born in the 'forties at the very latest, maybe one of those guys too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam. I didn't even bother to look at his age, didn't realize the empty evil consuming his soul had reached the surface like that.

What the hell happened to him? Was he bitten by a Reagan vampire? Can he see himself in a mirror?

[onethatcares]

36. like the conman said

"he's straight out of central casting".

[Docreed2003]

21. In other words, healthcare is not a right in Pence's view...

In the wordview of these sick fucks, there's no place for universal coverage because it would interfere with "freedom"...the only "free society" these slugs care about is the free market and the ability to make profit at the expense of screwing people. There's is no "freedom of choice" if that choice is unattainable.

[Ilsa]

22. His conclusions are based on lies.

The cost of insurance will go up at least 20% over time.

Of course, none of it matters coming from a douchebag.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

34. But he and Trump "truly believe" unicorns are going to shit rainbows.

According to Stephen Colbert's (the character, not the person) definition of "truthiness" Pense and Trump nail it: believing that something is true despite evidence to the contrary.

We've had a 30 year experiment of "free (unregulated) markets" and lower taxes on the rich, and the result is out country is worse off by every metric than any other country in the world. Well, not every metric -- we have a larger military force than the next five countries combined.

[LyndaG]

26. That's some creative b.s.

They should be ashamed.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. "Freedom's just another word for 'nothing left to lose . . . . '"

[world wide wally]

29. So, apparently, there is not other free nation on Earth if bring ripped off for health

care is the "essence of living in a free society".
Except Somalia of course.

[Egnever]

30. That's not really what he said

it's twisting his words.

That said what he said is bullshit because they are taking away choices and raising premiums not the opposite.

[NastyRiffraff]

33. He "truly believes"

Pence believes a lot of bullshit. This is just another one.

I can't stand to listen to him. He always looks and sounds like he's sleepwalking.

[Solly Mack]

37. Yeah, right.

it’s — the very essence of living in a free society is people get to make their own decisions.

But not when it comes to women having choices.

Pence is a liar, typical state of being for a theocrat.

They're not callous and cruel, liars and hypocrites - they're giving us the freedom to die!