Meanwhile, Little Rickie thinks that children whose parents can’t afford their medications should just die already. Because “We either believe in markets or we don’t.†From Rawstory:
Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told the mother of a child with a rare genetic disorder on Tuesday that she shouldn’t have a problem paying $1 million a year for drugs because Apple’s iPad can cost around $900.
You might have heard that one of Santorum’s children also has a genetic disorder and recently had to be hospitalized. One assumes he has insurance.
What a heartless, inhuman, f*cking, piece of sh*t, scumbag.
I wish I could say something stronger – but I even I lack the words to paint this piece of sh*t the way he should be.
Paging Dr. Dante Alighieri:
We need a new “Circle of Hell!”
Well said, gulag, bravo!
I have worked hard to do maitre chant for the likes of Bush and Cheney and their ilk, but I have more ego dissolution to allow before Santorum comes up on the screen.
Would the world be a better place if all Republicans were raptured off the face of the Earth, or what!
I keep looking for unintended downside consequences, but I just cannot find any…
May I briefly play devil’s advocate? Rare diseases are poorly understood, research is unpredictable, innovation is risky, and some sort of rationing is inevitable.
I know no good solution. Effective cheap medicine requires knowledge, which in turn requires expensive research; but other, more common, diseases also demand scientific attention.
That said… the profit motive does not mix well with such suffering and panic. This cannot be a normal free market, for one of the parties is not free. Life-saving medicine is not like an iPad; you can refuse the iPad.
What can ON- ONE say? who gives a crap? How bout some folk music, yeah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjUsKqwWVbk&feature=related
I believe that Santorum gets medical insurance as a retired senator. That makes his comments to the woman about the cost of the medicine her son needs even more despicable. There is simply no comparison between the purchase of a consumer item and medicine — One doesn’t NEED an iPad, but without medicine, one could DIE. There’s a reason he has his nick-name and he so royally deserves it.
I LOVE it when Santorum stands up and delivers a message like that; it plays well with about 20% and makes everyone else realize what a dope he is.
Keep diggin’ Ricky, you’re half wat to hell…….
I’m almost 100% sure that Wingnut Welfare has a great and low cost benefits package.
If they didn’t, these MFers would know how the rest of us feel, and wouldn’t be out there seeing who could come closest to adhering to the talking points., without like, you know, totally copying them.
And if the God he believes in doesn’t open up his heart after his daughters diagnosis, then either Ricky doesn’t have one (we know for damn sure he doesn’t have a brain), or there is no God – or, both.
Paradoctor: I think you’re right, not every situation fits well into this ‘free market’ idea that people seem to have, health care being one of the worst fits. People are way too simplistic with their thinking on economics. Many things, like the Ipad, can be assumed to fit in a rational supply/demand curve. Especially when you have them made in China in slave labor sweat shops. And then you can bank the 100 Billion in the bank. Wait, that doesn’t seem right. Or how about Walmart that has such a huge market share in many areas that they literally control pricing throughout the country. They routinely sell items at a loss to drive competitors out of business. But they can do that because they have the resources to take the loss while mom/pop shops don’t. Whats the invisible hand got to say about that?
As for Santorum, his is the logical end of the Objectivist thinking of Ayn Rand. How a devout Catholic could take major intellectual points from someone who was, at best, hostile to religion is beyond me. I personally don’t want to live in a world where I can sneer at someone who got a fatal disease that will ruin them and their family, and then just say “Tough Shit”. But I’m pretty sure that’s what Jesus would do.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAY OT – but MUST SEE commercial.
It’s run by Alan Grayson’s opponent.
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/alan-graysons-opponents-horribly-racist-off
This must have been done locally in Florida, with someone’s meth, tequila, and LSD addled teenager as the Director.
Paging Carl Hiaasen!
Says the retired Senator with government-guarnateed and paid-for lavish health insurance cover. “It’s not a problem, because it’s not MY problem!”
The only way we will ever get decent public health coverage in this country is if everyone in Congress loses their eeevvvul-guvmint-run healthcare and are banned from accepting ‘donated’ coverage from private insurers.
Utterly heartless. We see what a crock his whole fake Christianity is. The whole fraud of “private sector” worship is that, since profit is the private sector’s primary goal, you are lucky if “doing the right thing” is even part of a particular company’s mission statement.