Comments on: Dr. Ron Paul’s Campaign Manager Dies Uninsured, $400,000 in Debt

By: Rick Fisk

Rick Fisk — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:34:58 +0000

Interesting that the article claimed to exist does not exist at the link given. Me thinks there is a problem with the credibility here….

By: Rick Fisk

Rick Fisk — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 05:22:30 +0000

Snyder didn’t die because he didn’t have health insurance. He died because he had pneumonia and never recovered. He was treated which is why there is a bill. What this has to do with Ron Paul’s views on healthcare is anyone’s guess.

By: qotfw

qotfw — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:22:44 +0000

Americans aren’t smart enough to deserve the universal health care most other developed countries enjoy. We are witnessing natural selection on a very large scale.

By: qotfw

qotfw — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:20:25 +0000

You would think this would be a good thing, uh, you know, getting to see your beloved maker, being in heaven and all. Like Martha Stewart says, “It’s a good thing!”

By: qotfw

qotfw — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 01:17:42 +0000

Why does god hate Kent Snyder? Was his death punishment for serving the evil racist Rep Ron Paul? Hmm…

By: Madison

Madison — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 23:40:59 +0000

You’re right. Health care is a privilege. He deserved to die.

By: Warren Redlich

Warren Redlich — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:20:33 +0000

Um … I checked the RP campaign finance filings. Snyder doesn’t appear to have been on the salaried staff or paid at all. Since when do volunteers get health insurance?

I take it back – was looking at the wrong filing. Looks like he was paid about $6K/month, or $72K/year. Seems like he could have afforded health insurance if he wanted to buy it.

By: Warren Redlich

Warren Redlich — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:18:29 +0000

Um … I checked the RP campaign finance filings. Snyder doesn’t appear to have been on the salaried staff or paid at all. Since when do volunteers get health insurance?

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 15:19:22 +0000

Dan – Please name another industrialized country where health care is provided successfully strictly on a free-market, non-regulated basis.

Sorry, you can’t. There isn’t one. In the two European countries in which the public doesn’t cover health care costs, the private insurers are strictly regulated like utilities.

When Bush rewrote the Iraqi constitution, he included the right to public health care coverage, which means US taxpayers are picking up the tab for the health insurance of 30 million Iraqis, while 50 million American citizens go without,and 45,000 Americans are dying every year as a result.

The government didn’t screw this up. Private corporations did. The health plans could fix this crisis tomorrow if they wanted to. Nothing — nothing — is stopping them from insuring everybody, except their own greed.

By: Dan

Dan — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:34:50 +0000

It is sad that so many people cannot see that the problems we are now facing in health care are due to the mess that government has been making for decades. What you are asking for is to prescribe more arsenic to cure arsenic poisoning.

Health care is merely a service that one person provides to another. If the health care markets were allowed to operate like food markets or computer markets, the prices would be decreasing and there would not be a problem with people not being able to afford health care. Manipulation of the markets distorts every decision that people make.