They Just Say Stuff Like This to Piss Me Off
Okay, so it doesn’t look like they can repeal Obamacare and that’s great news.
However, it’s sumbitches like this who are shivers just looking for a spine to run up. If you are concerned that your pre-existing condition will jack your insurance rates up to $25,700 a year, there is a solution – move.
“People can go to the state that they want to live in,” Rep. Robert Pittenger (R-NC) told reporters Tuesday morning when asked if people with pre-existing conditions could be charged much more under the American Health Care Act.
“States have all kinds of different policies and there are disparities among states for many things: driving restrictions, alcohol, whatever,” he continued. “We’re putting choices back in the hands of the states. That’s what Jeffersonian democracy provides for.”
Pittenger is the the wealthiest member of the North Carolina delegation, hoarding in at $14.1 million.
I hope that money cushions his fall into hell.
Thank you to Sarah for the heads up.
Always my favorite line from state rights peeps………yes, just move to another state…
1Pisses me off too. This is my wish for that horrible person:
Let him have a non-covered pre-existing condition that flares up, requires multi million dollar tests, multi million dollar treatments, multi million dollar medications and other assorted multi million dollar expenses. Let him survive and live the rest of his miserable, worthless life under a bridge with a newspaper that has this story on the front page as his only blanket. Let this happen in South Dakota, which will be one of the 1st states to opt out and gets very cold in the winter.
2What Debbo said!
3I do hope the Christmas spirits have added new spirits to the team since the Tea party came into power. Especially The Ghost of Christmas Yet-to-Come, aka the Grim Reaper. As these soul-less Zombies die, transporting them to the ever burning fires of Gehenna will likely be a full time job.
And whether you do or do not believe in a blow torch Hell, these people seem destined for an eternity of torment to match the lifetimes of callousness and indifference which they have led.
Would I help them out? Sure. I have a can or two Sterno around here someplace.
4And after he dies of hypothermia, a la Debbo, I’m thinking of the scene toward the end of that 1990 movie, Ghost (you know the one where that gorgeous Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore are massaging clay and … I digress. Anyway, that scene at the end where the pavement opens up and Satan’s minions emerge and drag the screaming soul of the bad guy down to the depths of hell. Yeah, that’s my vision for this guy.
5Yeah, because people who can’t afford $25K for insurance CAN afford to drop their subsistent wage [in the richest nation in the world] jobs, pick up and move to some other state because — compassion begins over there, never here.
Obviously, the goal is to force the poor in every red state to move to blue states. Except it never works that way. Because people who can’t afford 25K for insurance . . . .
Meanwhile — I’m with the rest of you: What Debbo said.
It’s times like this that I try not to delight in the fact that I believe in karma. But it’s hard — really hard.
6Yeah,sure! Just make sure your preexisting condition is strictly your problem and not mine and by the way don’t come anywhere damn near me! Go to that other state somewhere over there!
Ugh! Double triple dare down ugh! I’m surprised he didn’t say “country” as like maybe Canada.
7May he contract guinea worm. Repeatedly.
8Juanita,
9A small correction: didn’t you mean to write “whoring in” and not “hoarding in”? I’m sure this is the kind of guy who pays for play on a daily basis.
Juanita,
10A small correction: didn’t you mean to write “whoring in” and not “hoarding in”? I’m sure this is the kind of guy who “plays for pay” on a daily basis. Oops, had to correct myself.
He knows about that moving to another state to better your lot in life. He moved to NC in 1985 from Dallas. I guess all the good get rich quick christian slots were full in Texas.
11He heard through his work with Campus Crusade for Christ, go east young man. He was in a perfect job to learn the best places to succeed if you are a good party member and live in an overcrowded state.
He moved to Charlotte to go into the Real Estate business and to be a politician.
One thing about it. The politicians that do the most damage to NC. To the people and the state’s reputation are almost always Carpetbaggers. I am beginning to think the real connection between Carpetbagging and Teabagging is the bag part. Fill your bag full of gold all the while pretending to be a Christian.
Mark Meadows is another good example of a Carpetbagger keeping NC in the news.
dam, im from south dakota…… and Debbo is right, our pubs will opp out first and it can be freaking cold out here…
12Hi Roger. I’m a SouDakotan too, living in beautiful blue Minnesota for the past 10 years. I grew up in central SD, then moved to the Hills. Where do you live?
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