RNC Chairman Supports Rights of Patients to Choose Their Own Unaffordable Health Care

The Man of Steele: Truth, Justice and the Pharmaceutical Companies' Way

WASHINGTON - Michael Steele, the Chairman of the Republican Party, said President Obama's current health care proposal threatened to undermine not only health care, but the very concept of unaffordability itself.

"We support an open system where patients are free to choose health care they cannot pay for," said Steele. "An affordable health care option is something we simply can't afford."

"Unaffordability is the bedrock not just of modern medicine, but indeed of all business," he continued. "We didn't run up all those deficits, deregulate every regulation and soak all citizens only to see them get them get something for nothing."

He added that the Republican Party believes government should not interfere with Americans' choices, except the right to choose an abortion, a gay marriage or to not be killed by someone whose gun would have to be pried from their cold, dead fingers.

Steele questioned Obama's truthfulness, implying that the GOP had transcended Watergate, Iran-Contra, non-existent weapons of mass destruction, Dick Cheney's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell Congress" policy and affairs that cost Republicans their reputations as well as $96,000.

He said that instead of running health care, the government should stick to what it does best, which is running popular ideas into the ground. "We can't make everything affordable," he said. "What's next? Housing? Education? Above ground pools? Something has to be expensive. We're the U.S., not the Pennysaver."

He said that Republicans would never spend millions on government-run health care, only on television commercials opposing it.

Steele concluded by saying that if Obama recast his health care proposal in different terms, he might get a bipartisan agreement. "Look, we like war and secret counterterrorism activities," he said. "If he called this a War on Germs or a Surgical Strike on Time Spent in the Waiting Room, maybe we'd stop being such dicks about it."

Comments

[jan4insight]

This is almost to true to be funny! Well, it is funny :) and it's a perfect summary of not just Steele, but the entire GooP stand on everything for the last 30 years. If you cut through all the bs of the GooP talking points, it boils down to exactly the way Mr. Mitchell wrote it. Brilliant!

[hsr0601]

Let me be clear the current world-wide recession resulted from the concentration of capital toward a few, thereby revived middle class and consumer confidence would be a key to vibrant economy activity and employment as the money does not evaporate.

Basically, If ruling party changes, accordingly so does tax system , especially given the condition that the middle class is undergoing severe financial hardship as a consequence of the extremely high fuel price, mortgage rate, and insurance premium, which is a beauty and virtue of democracy as we know.

In case some people have enjoyed the benefit of exemptions, that might imply others have shouldered the equivalent of their share.
Now the time has come for the middle class and middle class-oriented party to take initiative.
In general, advanced states are characterized as a broad base of middle class, the recovery of which is what the last presidential election is about as the California budget crisis demonstrates the severity in collapse of middle class and tax decrease.
Alongside a tax on the richest, alcohol tax and ending subsidies for the private insurers can be considered to mitigate the amount and resistance, I guess.

Thank You !

[UpstateSC]

Great sum up of Steele's position. Thanks for posting.

[blood1]

Gee, what a fun way to start a MONDAY! Thanks!