Rick Santorum, last track I had, still wants to be President and actually believes he has a shot at it. Of course he also believes that someone is proposing free healthcare to pretty much everyone and that there are sinister political motives behind it. Nevermind that the ACA only subsidizes some people who receive health care and that the majority of Americans will still be paying private insurance companies for insurance.
He puts forth this torturous argument:
And the reason is because most people don’t get sick, and so free health care is just that, free health care, until you get sick.
Really? Most people don’t get sick? Ever? And as for the political conspiracy part of it…
Then, if you get sick and you don’t get health care, you die and you don’t vote. It’s actually a pretty clever system. Take care of the people who can vote and people who can’t vote, get rid of them as quickly as possible by not giving them care so they can’t vote against you. That’s how it works.
And there I thought that not providing them even the hope of health care outside of an ER was how you get rid of the sick people so they can’t vote for you. Oh, wait…whose policy basically consists of that? Hmmm. (Where’s that snark html tag when you need it?)