Paul Ryan has a message for all of you deadbeats: Health care is neither a right nor a privilege

[Miles Archer]

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/paul-ryan-channels-his-inner-ayn-rand-health-care-is-neither-a-right-nor-a-privilege/



Health care is neither a right nor a privilege provided by the government according to House Speaker Paul Ryan.

In a Thursday interview with MSNBC’s Chuck Todd, the Wisconsin Congressman explained that he believes the government doesn’t owe it to anyone to pay for health care. Doing so enables the government to decide for Americans “where how and when we get health car,” he said.



He went on to explain that doing so gives the government too much power over people’s lives. Notably, Ryan sang a different tune during the 2012 Vice Presidential debate when he told the audience that he didn’t believe unelected judges should decide health care decisions, Congress should. That was about abortions, however.

Todd attempted to interrupt Ryan, but Ryan persisted asked that Todd not cut him off. “I love you, we’re buddies, but ya know,” Ryan told Todd. He went on to say that what health care is, however, is a need but that the answer is not Obamacare.

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1. "I love you, we're buddies." Said Ryan to Chuck Todd. Says it all. NT

[Miles Archer]

5. Yeah, Toad just lobbed softballs at his ass

What if there is a chance, and I know it's a slim one, but what if RyanCare is somehow not the best, most wonderful, most carefully thought out health care program for children and adults of all ages and incomes? I mean, I know that's a tough question to answer and a highly unlikely scenario, but what if there's even a 1% chance of that?*



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*No, of course it't not an actual question from the toad...but close.

[Warpy]

2. Fine, buddy, turn down your platinum plated Congressional plan

and go out on the open market and see what happens. You'll be damned glad the government is now regulating those assholes so that you can get coverage after the age of 35 that will cover any chronic conditions you have instead of exempting them so you have to pay 90% of your health care out of pocket.

He lives in a perfect world where we all get full insurance at our jobs and illness is a consumer decision so that low paid workers should stick to the occasional cold and leave the cancers and illnesses requiring transplant to the people who can afford them.

[elfin]

3. Hadn't seen that last pic before Ryan and Rand--- Aargh! Creepy and perfect all at once. EOM

[Miles Archer]

7. Yeah, I just found it today

One of those "EUREKA, I HAVE FOUND IT" moments coupled with intense nausea.

[elfin]

8. Good work. I will share selectively, given many of my associates are oblivious of Ayn in her image

They are aware that "objectivism" is not applicable to a republic that needs to accommodate all of us, but not aware that it surfaced in her much earlier "novels" that they sneaked for the sex bits and the surge they felt when a "strongman" came to rescue Freedom.

Yes, I am a geezer and devoured "Fountainhead" from my parent's "library" for whatever sex info I might glean, and only much much later learned of her personal toxic influence on our republic - and yet, somehow, she got it categorized as a "philosophy."

And yet she persists... dammit.

[kacekwl]

4. "Giving the government too much power"

We ARE the government dumb ass . Not you. If WE decided it is a right then it is.

[Lanius]

6. Paul Ryan never left his college-boy Ayn Rand phase.

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9. Ayn Rand

Used Medicare and accepted Social Security when she got older.