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"So there’s a group of people that even with unlimited access to health care are only going to use the emergency room when their arm is chopped off or when their pneumonia is so bad they get brought [into] the ER.”

Hey, genius, THAT'S THE WHOLE FUCKING IDEA. People should have access to health care in part so that emergency rooms can deal with, you know, emergencies, instead of having to cater to people who can't get in to see a doctor because they have no insurance.

I was rereading Morison's history of the U.S., specifically the chapter on the Eisenhower administration, in part because I wanted to be reminded of what it was like when (some) Republicans were (supposedly) sane. It alludes to how Ike brought into his cabinet a bunch of rich guys who wanted to destroy the agencies they headed (sound familiar?). The Kansas farmers were furious at Ike's agriculture secretary because he kept trying to cut farm subsidies. Incidentally, Kansas (where Ike was from) voted overwhelmingly for him. And now their heirs are voting for people like Sam Brownback and this goofball.

There are some people who are just too stupid to survive, and it ain't poor people without insurance.

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(Dis)Hon. Rep. Marshall,

I realize this may come as a shock to you, but the Founding Fathers enshrined in the Constitution and in law, by way of our first treaty, that the US is NOT A CHRISTIAN NATION, so stick your head in a toilet and flush.

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