Cong. Roy Blunt - running for Senate - says the feds never should have created Medicare

[proud2BlibKansan]

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If the Republican Congressman from southwest Missouri becomes his party’s nominee, chances are good that his comment from a radio interview today will come back to haunt him.

Here’s what he told 93.9 FM in Columbia:

“You could certainly argue that government should have never gotten into the health care business, and that might have been the best argument of all to figure out how people could have had more access to the competitive marketplace.

"The government did get into the health care business in a big way in 1965 with Medicare and later with Medicaid. And government already distorts the marketplace. A government competitor would drive all of the other competitors away. What we should be doing it creating more competition.”

http://primebuzz.kcstar.com/?q=node/19170#comment-59638

Bye Roy! :rofl:

[FiveGoodMen]

1. Fucking marketplace!

God these people and their religion! :mad:

[LeftishBrit]

2. He sounds horrible

[Mist]

3. Bashing Medicare will have about the same result as bashing soc. sec, did for the

Cheney/Bush cabal--total rejection by the public.

[GCP]

6. I hope all the 65+ers who are on M/C hear this

And do what they usually do - vote.

[redqueen]

4. Keep talkin, GOPers...

keep talkin!

[proud2BlibKansan]

7. LOL!

[Vinca]

5. Guess ole Roy can't see enough dead, old people by the side of the road.

What the hell is wrong with these people?

[Cleita]

8. What a compassionate man.

:sarcasm: Without Medicare my husband would have died seven years before he did and I would be blind and most likely dead myself. Before we turned sixty five we had both already lost our private insurance plans because of the deductions, copays and ridiculously high premiums. There was nothing competitive about how we were treated. I want to see Congress have their health care, at taxpayer's expense, suspended until they come up with a practical and humane health care plan. Also, Roy Blunt seems to forget that seniors have paid into the system their whole working lives and it seems they should get their benefits when the time comes. If he knew his history, he would know that Medicare came into being because old people were suffering and dying because they couldn't afford health care. If that system worked so well back then we wouldn't have Medicare.

[LLStarks]

9. We need someone to smoke this Blunt in 2010. nt

[juno jones]

10. That'd be even better than 'drinking his milkshake'.

Although milkshakes after blunts are lulzy...:P

[opihimoimoi]

11. Does he know how many peeps out there are on or close to these 2 programs??

He has just killed his odds.....

Is it the water? What is it that makes these GOP dudes tone deaf and ignorant? The food?

[marmar]

12. How does trash like this get elected?

Doesn't say much about a good portion of the Missouri electorate

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. The gop has gone wild with this shit. I guess they know they are going to lose anyway

so they aren't sugar coating any of this Calvin Coolidge/ Hoover shit anymore. They're working a plan to take us all back to the gilded era, the days of child labor & the plague.

[MineralMan]

14. Another country heard from...

Ho-hum...

[ShadowLiberal]

15. He's probably so delusional he thinks saying that will help him

That's the problem with the current GOP, they've gone too far the right, and have been so caught up in their own fantasy land that they actually believe it's reality. They think people still care about getting more tax cuts, even though polls show record numbers of Americans now say they pay the right amount in taxes. They think we still need to deregulate the market, as if we still live in 1980 when people blamed too much regulation for causing an economic slowdown. Today everyone knows that not enough regulation helped cause this recession get a LOT worse then it would have been with the proper government safeguards and oversight.