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Larry Elder’s Thanksgiving Thought: The Poor Should Just STFU About Not Having Health Care!
Posted by Clif on 11/22/07 at 11:07 am
Category: Health Care, Town Hall Watch, Wingnuts
In the spirit of Thanksgiving — where we should be thankful for what we have and mindful of what other less fortunate people don’t have — Larry Elder is at Clown Hall castigating an alleged friend during a holiday dinner for worrying about poor people not having decent, or any, health care:
Just before the holidays, I had my annual dinner with longtime friends — all political liberals.
My friends’ son, now in college, asked me a health care question as I munched on a delicious dish of short ribs. “If you’re against government health care insurance, what should poor people do? What, just screw ‘em?” … [T]he harshness of the question surprised me.
The kid, of course, should really have been more tolerant of the fact that there are uninsured people and certainly shouldn’t pose any harsh questions about it to people who don’t really care that there are uninsured people.
So I said, “This is a somewhat complicated question, but the short answer is free enterprise.”
“Free enterprise?”
“The reason health care isn’t accessible to so many people is because of government interference.
I know, you’re thinking I made that up. No one could be that stupid, you are undoubtedly thinking. So follow the link and see for yourself. Then come back and we’ll see how Elder tries to justify that skull-crushing piece of idiocy.
For example, a medic in Iraq who attends to fallen soldiers — but is not an M.D. — could not return stateside and open a practice.
So you see if the government would let everybody be doctors, then everyone would have doctors! And they’d all work at Walgreen’s
Drug stores like Walgreens now have in-house, walk-in medical clinics so that people can get care for medical problems, the kind of treatment that most people need — noncomplicated, nonsurgical procedures. … Staffed by nurse practitioners who can examine patients, administer vaccines, and prescribe medications for minor illnesses, these clinics charge much less than a traditional doctor’s office visit.
Of course, you’re still SOL if you have, say, breast cancer.
Happy Thanksgiving — from Larry Elder’s home to yours.
And we also have another Thanksgiving treat for you over at Sadly, No!
