Angle Suggests Free Market Could Solve Pre-Existing Conditions Coverage

[laughingliberal]

Nevada Republican Senatorial candidate Sharron Angle suggested on Monday that she'd prefer free-market remedies to a legislative mandate that insurance companies be required to cover people with pre-existing conditions.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=post&forum=389

And, yet, the White House believes it's the 'professional left' who supported a public option who needs drug testing.

[MineralMan]

1. Sure, because that has worked so well so far.

Of course, maybe she means that in a free market system, the ones with pre-existing conditions will just die off. That sounds more like her.

[joeybee12]

2. Exactly, survival of the fittest...

or, what she and others really mean, survival of the richest.

[MineralMan]

9. But, you see, the richest ARE the fittest. That's Calvinism in

action. Your wealth is evidence that God is smiling on you and that you're one of the chosen ones predestined for salvation. It's so simple, if you just look at it. :sarcasm:

[closeupready]

4. Right, in a free market system, if you can't pay for health care, you don't get it.

Problem solved. :sarcasm:

[Xipe Totec]

7. in a free market system, if you need health care, you don't get it.

They want people who pay but don't use the service.

[closeupready]

21. Right - fewer operating expenses lead directly to bigger bonuses.

And higher profits.

[Warpy]

3. Stupid ass, if the free market worked, we'd all be covered

I hate wishing ill on people, but I do wish these smug believers in the invisible hand fairy would all get seriously ill and find out exactly what happens when the free market settles everything.

My guess is that they wouldn't like being written off any more than I do.

[Hannah Bell]

5. those with preexisting conditions go bankrupt and die. problem solved.

the free market = dog eat dog, the war of all against all.

[Cleita]

24. And their families go homeless when they die.

I have seen it happen.

[KamaAina]

6. This is why I'm calling her Sharron "Obtuse" Angle

:dunce: :dunce: :dunce:

[Kingofalldems]

8. I love that story

[BzaDem]

10. The public option has nothing to do with pre-existing conditions.

If you had a public option but no regulation banning pre-existing condition consideration, the public option would get all those with conditions, and premiums for the public option would be 10 times what they would be in the private market. The public option would have been useful in lowering costs in general (or at least getting started in doing so), but not more so for people with pre-existing conditions.

My point is that some on the left wanted the current bill to die because it didn't have the public option. These people (while having different views than Sharon Angle) actually would have preferred the same outcome that Sharon Angle wants (let the "free market" deal with the problem) over the bill that passed.

[laughingliberal]

13. I didn't say it did. I just think the WH might find need to focus their intervention efforts on...

some people who are showing clear signs of impairment and not those who advocated for effective solutions to our problems. And your analogy is fail.

[BzaDem]

16. They weren't focusing on all people who supported a public option. They were focusing on people who

didn't think HCR was a good bill worth passing BECAUSE it didn't have a public option.

If you pretend they were attacking all public option supporters, your argument works. But the former is not true, so your argument is a straw man.

[laughingliberal]

18. Whatever. You can say you're only attacking the Catholics who still eat fish on Fridays...

but chances are a lot of Catholics who eat meat on Fridays will be offended, too.

Their messaging is dumbassness. They spent a week defending this attack and 2 weeks later we see stories of the WH trying to get the liberals in line. Duh!

[BzaDem]

20. I would say their problem was wasting a week "defending" themselves when nothing they said needed to

be defended (or wasn't obvious). But whatever.

[laughingliberal]

22. Yes, but you aren't one of those they needed to convince.

They've done themselves no favors with those who are considering sitting out the elections.

Here's the deal: The 'centrist' dems need no convincing-they got just what they wanted. The right leaning independents aren't going to vote for them no matter how much liberal bashing and sucking up to the right they do.

Their targets are off and their messaging has been dumbass. They insult the dog doo-doo out of the left and sit around scratching their heads wondering why liberals aren't enthused. For a bunch of allegedly smart guys....

[JCMach1]

11. There is no such thing as 'Free Market' in health care... and that's the problem

For years we have operated 'as if' it does operate under those principles...

In fact, choice has never been built into the system and that's the problem with ANY market solution... including Obamacare...

Only single payer is going to work. The sooner we get there, the easier the transition is going to be.

[rucky]

12. Is that the healthcare for chickens person?

[laughingliberal]

14. No, it's the nut job who defeated the chickens for checkups person. Our state is a zoo. nt

[Bitwit1234]

15. OH boy yeah we see how the free market worked for

the US and their jobs. And how it is working for the world buying our goods instead of us importing the junk they make and buying it. Not one of he countries that flood our country with products buy anything we make here.

[Iggo]

17. She just likes to say 'Free Market'.

It's one of her buzz words. Pay no attention.

(I spel gud)

[laughingliberal]

19. Lol! nt

[COLGATE4]

23. It's obvious - it's all in God's hands, therefore if you have a

preexisting condition you'll either get better or die, all on your own. No market solution needed.