Tea Partiers Cheer to Let Uninsured Die, Ron Paul Says Let Churches Help

(Posted on September 12, 2011 at 10:42 pm by Kate Shellnut on a pro-Rick Perry website)


When debate moderator Wolf Blitzer brought up a hypothetical young, uninsured American in a coma, he asked, “Are you saying society should just let him die?” and the tea party crowd cheered, some shouting, “Yes!”

Rep. Ron Paul, the other candidate from Texas and the most libertarian of the GOP hopefuls, was more compassionate than that in his response, as a doctor and as a Christian.

Paul, a Baptist, referred to his early career working at the Santa Rosa Hospital in San Antonio, where churches helped cover costs of needy patients so the Catholic system “never turned anybody away.”

“We’ve given up on this concept that we might assume responsibility for ourselves, that our neighbors, our friends, our churches would do it,” said Paul, an opponent to federal healthcare as well Medicaid and Medicare plans.

He confirmed this position with a tweet from his official account: The individual, private charity, families, and faith based orgs should take care of people, not the government.

Raised in a Lutheran family, two of Paul’s brothers became ministers and he chose to “minister through medicine,” he told Beliefnet during the last election.

The idea that individuals and churches should have more authority over their own healthcare—and education and other matters, according to Paul—does strike a chord with some conservative Christian voters, particularly those who are concerned about federally funded programs whose money also goes to birth control, the morning after pill and other treatments they may oppose.

Michele Bachmann also emphasized the need for people, particularly parents, to make their own healthcare choices when she argued against Gov. Rick Perry’s inoculation of Texas girls with the HPV vaccine, a position that will appeal to some conservative Christians for the same reason.

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What's the surprise? It wasn't that long ago slaves were often hung & burned at the stake, dismembered, castrated while a crowd cheered. The fire would burn slowly causing the victim great pain while the crowd cheered. That was the mentality than & it's no different now for many folks, accept it has to be kept concealed. That's the mentality of certain groups, many of you live around these folks & send your children to schools with these folks, many of you are very comfortable around these folks. Many of you would stare & not even say, "hello,"at the unknown black person, many of you wouldn't even know folks of this character unless they showed this side of their character.  

No, the Tea Party doesn't believe in the theory of evolution (snicker, snicker)... 

I dont believe in the theory of evolution either but the Tea Party folk are hard hearted and need to know Jesus.

President 2012 Dr. Ron Paul said it well:
“We’ve given up on this concept that we might assume responsibility for ourselves, that our neighbors, our friends, our churches would do it,” said Paul, an opponent to federal healthcare as well Medicaid and
Medicare plans.

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