Armey’s View Of Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions: Someone Who ‘Eats Like A Pig’ And Has Diabetes
Armey’s View Of Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions: Someone Who ‘Eats Like A Pig’ And Has Diabetes
Ensuring that insurers don’t reject any American for health coverage because of a pre-existing condition is a top priority of the public. Republicans have repeatedly said that they also want to make this change, but in the alternative legislation they released, Americans with pre-existing conditions would still be left out to dry.
Today on CNN, FreedomWorks head Dick Armey defended the industry’s discriminatory practices by saying that if you have diabetes because you “eat like a pig,” you don’t deserve coverage:
ARMEY: But now, they [government officials] come along and they say, irrespective of the fact they’ve gone 20, 30, 40 years of their adult life without ever having bought insurance prior to getting a liver inflammation due to their excessive drinking habits or diabetes because they eat like a pig, you must now insure them.
But at what point do we allow the government to order people that you must sell your product to this person or that person, irrespective of any good judgment? We saw what happened in housing when they ordered banks to make loans to people who weren’t qualified. Are we now going to have the same destructive influences in health care because we’re going to order doctors to provide services and so forth?
Watch it:
In reality, these pre-existing conditions that can disqualify people from receiving health insurance often have nothing to do with unhealthy lifestyle choices — and they disproportionately target women. Some pre-existing conditions are having a Caesarean-section pregnancy, being a victim of domestic violence, or being a victim of rape. Most individual health insurance markets don’t even cover maternity care. Other pre-existing conditions that insurers have used to either deny people outright or charge exorbitant fees for coverage include being an expectant father, having acne, or being a police officer.
Many Republicans, like Armey, seem unable to grasp that denial based on pre-existing conditions is discriminatory. Last week, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-TX) said that insurers are justified in charging women more than men because we’re “all different.” He then compared a woman to a “smoker” and a man to a “non-smoker” to argue that insurers should be allowed to discriminate.
Armey also recently told the New York Times that the “largest empirical problem we have in health care today is too many people are too overinsured.” (He’s wrong.)
Transcript:
ROBERTS: Back on this idea of mandates that you talk about. Those mandates really are to guarantee certain levels of coverage, are they not? Like, you can’t be denied if you’ve got a pre-existing condition or if you’re pregnant. It also requires minimum standards for such things as mental health care. And there are a lot of mandates across the government on many industries, but that’s never called socialism.
ARMEY: OK. Well, let me just say, if the government said to the insurance company, no matter how many accidents, wrecks, drunken driving convictions they’ve had in the past and whatever is the condition of their record of driving habits, you must insure them, you would say that’s unreasonable.
But now, they come along and they say, irrespective of the fact they’ve gone 20, 30, 40 years of their adult life without ever having bought insurance prior to getting a liver inflammation due to their excessive drinking habits or diabetes because they eat like a pig, you must now insure them.
But at what point do we allow the government to order people that you must sell your product to this person or that person, irrespective of any good judgment? We saw what happened in housing when they ordered banks to make loans to people who weren’t qualified. Are we now going to have the same destructive influences in health care because we’re going to order doctors to provide services and so forth?
And the fact of the matter is, the government running somebody else’s business can very quickly become the diminution of the whole industry. And I promise this, about what the House passed the other night goes through, you will destroy medical innovation in America, you’ll destroy the incentive for it.
We are the nation of discovery, creation, and innovation in health care. The rest of the world copies us. If we don’t do it, it won’t be done, and it won’t be done under this plan.
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And Dick Armey is speaking for who?
November 9th, 2009 at 4:42 pmRush
November 9th, 2009 at 4:44 pmWell, at least it’s good to see Dick without the ventriloquist’s dummy on his knee.
Uh…I mean Doug Hoffman. Dick Armey without Doug Hoffman. Yes, that’s what I meant.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:46 pmArmey is 69 years old and is a bit on the pudgy side. It’s almost guaranteed that he has
High blood pressure
Slight heart condition
Possibly diabetes
But, to scum like him, “pre-existing condition” could be anything from being female, to being raped, to being a slightly underweight 3 year old.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:46 pmI’m not religious nor do I believe in magic. But, if there happens to be throat cancer fairy floating around I hope it lands in Dick Armey’s mouth!
November 9th, 2009 at 4:46 pmVagina Coast Guard is kinda big to be talking like that.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:46 pmOf course DICK fails to bring forth the fact that most of our processed food, made from corn syrup, has led to numerous individuals with Metabolic Syndrome, a precursor to Diabetes.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pmAnd the processed food was SUPPORTED by our government!
Armey:
“We saw what happened in housing when they (the government) ordered banks to make loans to people who weren’t qualified.”
Totally false statement.
Armey has gone off the deepend.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pm“Eating like a pig” is a behavior which can be treated by us psychologists and by covering that in a comprehensive health insurance plan can improve the person’s overall health and reduce subsequent physical health costs. And kids with juvenile diabetes can have a very hard time coping with the illness and then might not be able to get coverage as an adult. Mental health treatment can help here, too.
Unfortunately, it’s harder to treat empathy deficiency.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pmFollowing that logic, anyone who’s injured in a vehicle accident who didn’t have their seatbelt or helmet on shouldn’t receive medical treatment.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:49 pmAs I have always said, Dick Armey before Armey di…
Who was the “they” he refers to as ordering the banks to loan money to folks without good credit. I believe the banks and mortgage companies did that on there own to sate their overwhelming greed, just as the insurance companies don’t want to take on anyone who is not healthy. I wonder how much ‘Ol Dick is being paid to spout his nonsense.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:50 pmAnd why should I have to be confronted with your sexist, mysoginistic,homophobic,racist,hateful,pin-headed,selfish,self-centered, hate-mongering, close-minded views? YOU, Mr. Armey, are harmful to my mental health. You should come with a warning label: Warning: May cause one’s mind to close and one’s heart to be filled with hate.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:50 pmMy God,
I don’t know what scares me more, that someone who claims to have a large following can be that disconnected from reality, or that someone could follow someone with that much of a disconnect from reality….
November 9th, 2009 at 4:52 pmBut at what point do we allow the government to order people that you must sell your product to this person or that person, irrespective of any good judgment?
Dick,
What makes you think “good judgment” is being exercised now? Is it only considered “good judgment” when it’s profitable to the insurance companies? Is that supposed to be the point of insurance? Do you remember how insurance was supposed to work?
It would seem that somewhere along the line, you got the idea that health insurance was supposed to benefit the insurance company executives more than it benefitted the people paying for it. You need to get your moral compass adjusted, Dick.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:53 pmBig Dick won’t address the real issues with pre-existing conditions because he can’t. He thinks with his little member and not his brain.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:53 pmWell gee DICK, then you’d think you’d be supportive of the PUBLIC OPTION that will cover these people, WOULDN’T YOU?
November 9th, 2009 at 4:55 pmMore compassionate conservatism…….kind of like shouting down female Congresswomen.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pmNotice how he didn’t mention anything about smokers not being deserving of health coverage:
As a Representative, Dick Armey was described in the Washington Times as “a chain smoking Texas Democrat” who “says antismoking and other wellness programs should not be promoted as part of health care reform. “If there are no smokers,” he reportedly said, “how are we going to pay for health reform? But then again, if we can pay farmers for not growing tobacco, perhaps we can tax nonsmokers for however much they’re not smoking.”
November 9th, 2009 at 4:57 pmIf ‘Ol Dick is speaking for Rush well… Rush is kind of way overweight and may be on Dick’s hit list. Oh my, what a world. Seems to me that a man who makes what Rush reportedly makes should pay his own way for health care, $120K for a heart rebuild is a pittance for a man in his position.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:57 pmI was going to say something, but I don’t think TP would allow that many F-words in one post.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:57 pm:(
Maybe Armey would like to put people with “pre-existing conditions” on ice floes.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:59 pmAh yes!
Keep bringing those “heart-strong” feelings to the surface, GOPiggie scum.
The depths of the blindness towards their self-imposed ostracism is enough to write a thesis.
November 9th, 2009 at 4:59 pmWhy stop with the obese. Why not deny coverage to smokers, drinkers, people who drive motorcycles or atvs or speedboats. What about people who keep guns in their house, or play football or hockey? I know, 5 people had to be treated at a teabagger rally last week so it must be hazardous. What if everybody who attends these rallies gets their name on a list and is denied covereage if they ever need to apply for insurance.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:00 pmRachel has proven this lying, fat, sloppy, greasy turd is a first rate idiot.
He looks as if he has many pre-existing conditions. A walking bag bs.
He doesn’t want to admit to understand discrimination because if he does all his bs will revele him as superretarded, a pre-existing condition.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:00 pmDick Armey: if you have diabetes because you “eat like a pig,” you don’t deserve coverage
– - Don’t stone me kids, but there is some logic in what Armey says here. Type 2 diabetes is brought on in part by diet and lifestyle.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:00 pmBut now, they [government officials] come along and they say, irrespective of the fact they’ve gone 20, 30, 40 years of their adult life without ever having bought insurance prior to getting a liver inflammation due to their excessive drinking habits or diabetes because they eat like a pig, you must now insure them.
– - And a disproportionately large number of these people live in the GOP’s base of the Confederacy.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:03 pmLet’s compare houses to peoples’ health.
A house can be built, a body uses building blocks.
A house uses brick or some sort of material as an outer shell, the body has skin.
A house can be consume in a fire and (excuse me) people.
A house can become over bloated and so can people.
Wow!
November 9th, 2009 at 5:07 pmI am a Vietnam vet, 71 yeas old, 5′10″, 164 lbs. I work out almost every day and eat a very healthy diet, with little red meat and lots of fruit and veggies. I’m fortunate to have both VA and Medicare coverage, because I have a pre-existing condition – Type 2 diabetes, thanks to exposure to Agent Orange.
Based on the most recent photos I have seen of Dick Armey, he appears to eat like a pig and I wouldn’t be surprised if he has diabetes. I also read where he is doing his utmost to keep his hated government health insurance.
Any by the way, he dodged the draft during Vietnam.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:07 pmDick Armey has a pre-existing condition; he’s a brainless twit. He probably gets very favorable treatment from the HCI industry though. Wouldn’t surprise me at all to hear that they have special VIP coverage for their favorite lobbyists and inside guys.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:07 pmCorrect me if I am wrong, but wasn’t penicillin discovered in France? Wasn’t the first heart transplant done in South Africa?
The whole world has come up with amazing advances in medicine. Not just the US.
And most, if not all, of those countries have “socialized medicine”
November 9th, 2009 at 5:08 pm“Don’t stone me kids, but there is some logic in what Armey says here. Type 2 diabetes is brought on in part by diet and lifestyle.”
A diet and lifestyle enabled by Big Food, Big Pharma and Big Chemical.
They all feed upon each other.
The Health Care Industry has enabled, and fed off of, all of the above to produce generations of unhealthy Americans, because they can make money off them. Money from procedures, surgeries and health insurance premiums.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:08 pmI believe Dick was among the top vote getters for the person most responsible for the 2008 financial meltdown for his unyielding efforts toward deregulation and consolidation of the banks.
He certainly deserves a lot of credit for run away health care costs for his bill to convert Blue Cross/Blue Shield into for profit companies, removing the last non-governmental check on costs, ushering in the era of almost unlimited insurance companies profits.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:12 pmIn some cases, yes, it is, but not all cases are. Some are due to genetics and some are due just to old age.
http://www.dlife.com/dLife/do/ShowContent/type2_information/causes_and_risk_factors/causes_and_risk_factors.html
Like pretty much any other disease, many factors can cause it, some of which are out of your control.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pmAn interesting observation, given that it was uttered by an overweight, chain smoking blowhard in less than perfect health, eh?
November 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pmHe doesn’t have it right. It actually reads, ’somebody who IS a pig, diabetes or not.’ Like Dick Armey. See, the bill only covers humans.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:14 pmI will ignore for a moment the complete idiocy of Armey’s implication that pre-existing conditions are the fault of those who have them.
Yes — some conditions are preventable by living a healthier lifestyle. But nobody asks to get juvenile diabetes, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s disease, arthritis, or any number of other conditions (many of them hereditary).
Instead, I’d rather look at his premise that somebody who got a pre-existing condition through smoking, eating the wrong things, lack of exercise, sexual promiscuity, or other irresponsible living is unworthy of insurance.
Dick Armey may be content to let these people expire on the hospital steps when they have a health emergency, but the law requires an emergency room to treat them. And then, when they can’t pay, we ALL pay — through our tax money or higher premiums for our own insurance. Uninsured people are causing our current health care system to spiral out of control, regardless of the reason for lack of insurance.
Me? I’m a cheap, selfish tightwad. I recognize that somebody with insurance is more likely to get preventive care, wellness education, and proper medication. Such a person is more likely to live to his normal life expectancy without requiring catastrophic medical care. And if my money is going to pay for preventive mainenance or catastrophic care, I’d rather it be the former, because it’s less money in the long run.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:22 pmI know this will be repeated, but Armey is a total Dick.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:26 pmnoseeum says:
A diet and lifestyle enabled by Big Food, Big Pharma and Big Chemical.
– - Well yes, most people are sheep and believe what they are force-fed (pardon the pun).
November 9th, 2009 at 5:27 pmToo bad Dick’s Medicare can’t drop him when his prostate goes.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:28 pmI seem to recall reading somewhere that Armey was about to be
cut loose from the governments premium health insurance, and he strenuously objected, and was allowed to keep it.
Funny that.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:28 pmDo us all a favor, Dickless, and ban High Fructose Corn Syrup from contaminating our food supply.
Then STFU and FOAD.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:28 pmMake this POS the poster boy for Repugery. This is the very reason that anyone who votes for a cancervative deserves NO respect.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:32 pmAmerica Leads all the Developed Countries in Preventable Deaths.
In this country We have the Freedom to make Bad Choices.
I wish the Health Care Debate would address THAT…and Fix it thru Education, and not , as Armey Suggests, by sending Uninsurable People to the Emergency Room.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:33 pmHe brings new meaning to the word douchbag
November 9th, 2009 at 5:36 pmLast I checked Dick Armey is an overweight, pompous, ass.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:39 pmDick Armey let us know it’s a pig because the beacon/egg breakfast is really showing on him. The Republicans now have nothing to say and their sounding stupid. Dick Armey might want to lay off the fats if he’s going to use that as his pre existing condition. Pelosi/Reid/Boehner/Bachmann have no worries as they use the drugs/alcohol to get the weight off.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:42 pm….getting a liver inflammation due to their excessive drinking habits or diabetes because they eat like a pig, you must now insure them.
From the looks of him, he’s gotta be describing himself. I remember the time he appeared on Meet The Press with Rachel Maddow, and he sounded and acted drunk and looked blown up like a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day float. Guess it takes one to know one. Right on, Dick….we’ll dance at your funeral.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:44 pmHe’s right.. only the perfect people, with perfect health habits, like this fatass, deserve to live.
stay classy GOP. At least he’s telling us the Republican health care plan – die quickly.
Parents be warned…this is what happens when you name your kid Dick Armey.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:47 pmGood point. Draft dodging is a pre-extisting condition. If the military doesn’t want ya, why would (un)healthly insurers?
November 9th, 2009 at 5:49 pmAnother tie back to good old fundamentalism. If you are sick, it is because you have offended.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:52 pmAnd that, in a nutshell, is why Republican government will never solve problems. Their first order of business is to take the existing data and recast it a form that serves their prejudices.
This strategy not only serves their self-absorption but also plays nicely into their conviction that “government can’t solve problems”.
Whether this conviction came before or after their self-obsession made it come true is kind of a chicken-and-the-egg situation.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:53 pm“… due to their excessive drinking habits or diabetes because they eat like a pig, you must now insure them.”
Pssst, Karl Rove, Bill Bennett, Roger Ailes? He’s talking about you guys.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:56 pmVery good observation, MapleStreet. I’ve noticed that with wingnuts, it’s always a matter of “what you deserve”. They will oppose any social program, no matter how effective it might be at raising the standard of living of the population as a whole, on the basis of people getting something “they don’t deserve”.
I think you’re right that it’s a centuries-old remnant of the twisted Puritan sense of heaven and hell.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:57 pmIt appears as though Armey has been eating like a pig. Let he who is wihout sin cast the first stone. Oh, and when he accuses others as acting like pigs, that too will be the pot calling the kettle black.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:59 pmralph & MapleStreet,
It’s called the “Just World Hypothesis.”
I’m not sure people like Dick would really want to live in such a world.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:09 pmSo the truth finally comes out about the real GOP plan for health care. If you’re sick, too bad. Unless you happen to be fat and go to tea parties, or be fat and run a conservative PAC like fatso Dick Armey does.
http://www.political-buzz.com/
November 9th, 2009 at 6:15 pmUm, from the pictures of the Teabag rallies, I’d say he described their BASE!
November 9th, 2009 at 6:22 pmThere are elements of the health care bill that go to preventative care, but not enough for this type of care. If we had single payer, then it would be available to everyone at a reasonable cost. Private insurance companies do not want to pay for preventative care and have been forced by law to pay for some of these things. We need to start this care somewhere and ignoring it is not going to make the country’s health better.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:22 pmBut now, they [government officials] come along and they say, irrespective of the fact they’ve gone 20, 30, 40 years of their adult life without ever having bought insurance prior to getting a liver inflammation due to their excessive drinking habits or diabetes because they eat like a pig, you must now insure them.
Sounds like the Armey family picnic down there in Barbeque, TX…
November 9th, 2009 at 6:36 pmTo be utterly honest (I am an emergency department clerk afterall) most of the people who eat like a pig and are diabetic in my state are on Medicaid. Then again, I live in Kentucky, and a ridiculously huge percentage of my patients are committing medicaid fraud.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:40 pmI’m reminded of the Fat Bastard character from Gold Member when watching the Dick,Armey. Feeding at the public trough for eighteen years and PR (policy adviser) prick for the last 6.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:48 pmDick Says:
‘they’ve gone 20, 30, 40 years of their adult life without ever having bought insurance’
well no shit Dick!.. ya, they’ve gone 40 years without insurance….. why might that be?.. wtf. Isn’t that beautiful, rather than fixing that problem.. just blame the people for not having insurance.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:50 pmI agree with the Little Big Dick that America is overinsured. Too many people have health care. We need more people dying so there’s more for the rest of us. In fact we need death panels. Not those namby-pamby Obama Death Panels, but good hearty, manly Republican ones. Then we can weed out the weak and the sick and the women and become a competitive nation again. Hail the American Fatherland!
November 9th, 2009 at 6:52 pmHe seems to be an advocate for just healing the healthy. He’s narrowed the problem down.. why didn’t we see it before – the problem with our health care system is: sick people.
sounds like a Dick Armey death panel to me.
November 9th, 2009 at 6:55 pmArmey’s View Of Americans With Pre-Existing Conditions: Someone Who ‘Eats Like A Pig’ And Has Diabetes
What, Dick?? Kinda like YOU??
November 9th, 2009 at 7:06 pmPricky Dicky has had government insurance most of his adult life. He is now fighting to get out of Medicare to keep the private insurance he has, which is also paid for by the taxpayers he bashes. Dick you are a pig.
http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/not-ready-yet-bill-moyers-exposes-dic
November 9th, 2009 at 7:08 pmThat fat old adulterer has free medical care, courtesy of the taxpayer.
Why do we allow privileged slobs like Armey to dominate the debate?
November 9th, 2009 at 7:26 pmSo Dick is basically saying he is kind of the czar of the insurance industry death panels.
You get sick because of bad eating habits, we don’t have to give you insurance and you can die.
What an ass.
Just who is responsible for the bad habits?
November 9th, 2009 at 7:48 pmThe fast food industry and their slick pr.
The junk food industry and their slick pr.
The failure of supermarket chains to provide supermarkets in low income areas that could promote healthier foods.
Poor nutritional education in the schools and press.
The health care industry because bad health means more patients.
etc.
Just to re-enforce Armey’s words – Dick Armey IS A PIG.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:52 pmpig? Armey looks like a pig and check out his lipstick.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:57 pmI’m surprised only that Armey didn’t actually say the words “die quickly”.
November 9th, 2009 at 7:58 pmBeing poor of health or resources is God’s way of punishing people for not being as good as folks like Armey.
November 9th, 2009 at 8:53 pmEverybody knows that.
Screw liberals.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:26 pmSaying all diabetics eat like pigs is like saying all football players kill pit bulls.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:34 pmToo bad there’s not a horrible disease that afflicts people who lie.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:38 pmScrew liberals.
Wow. Talk about a cogent argument worthy of hours of intellectual discourse. Where does one begin to refute a comment like that? But, being me, I’ll give it a try.
Why should we screw liberals?
November 9th, 2009 at 9:43 pm55. Zooey, I’d say the refutation of the Just World is sitting in a protected neighborhood in Dallas, reading My Pet Goat and no plane tickets to the Hague.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:44 pmFirst. We would have to identify these “liberals” of which you speak. I may be old fashioned but I insist on knowing who I’m talking about before committing, even verbally, to screwing them.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:46 pmpete,
Absolutely, I agree. Personally, I love screwing, but not in an overly broad, anonymously casual way. So it would help to know which liberals he believes need screwing.
November 9th, 2009 at 9:52 pmevangenital says
Dick Armey takes full advantage of “socialized medicine” to treat his diabetes and his heart problems.
Perhaps if that slimebag weren’t so fat and so out of shape, he could wing it without taxpayer assistance for all his many medical costs.
That tub of lard should start eating fruits and vegetables, lay off the carb and sugar slop, drop his “socialized” health care that seems to bother him so much, and hope and pray that he doesn’t get sick.
That way, he will understand what the average citizen goes through on a daily basis.
Screw that fat clown, screw the repiggies, and screw the teabagger trash
November 9th, 2009 at 9:58 pmARMEY: “OK. Well, let me just say, if the government said to the insurance company, no matter how many accidents, wrecks, drunken driving convictions they’ve had in the past and whatever is the condition of their record of driving habits, you must insure them, you would say that’s unreasonable.”
No, you would say that that’s impossible, as the State in which you hold your license to drive would have revoked said license and/or jailed your ass long before your list of examples ran out. Stupid strawman.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:00 pmI’d like to tell and show Dick Armey my medical records how I got my pre-existing condition when I was 12 years old thanks to family genetics on my mom’s side.
I’d like to also have him talk to my parents how they’ve had to threaten to sue just about every health insurance company who refused to have me grandfathered into their health plan whenever they had insurance changed on them by their employer.
November 9th, 2009 at 10:09 pmAs a senior citizen and a practicing (but not yet perfect!) adult diabetic for some twelve years now, I say, “Dear Mr. Armey: go Cheney yourself.” And best of luck on destroying what remains of a once proud and useful (before Nixon, Reagan, and the two Bush thugs)Republican Party with your vile teabagger movement…
November 9th, 2009 at 10:18 pmDick Armey, you have stated the case perfectly for the present state of the health care system!
For profit, For profit, For profit
November 9th, 2009 at 10:40 pmConservaTROLL
Screw YOU. Kill yourself
November 9th, 2009 at 11:18 pmThis is the ole Reaganomics: Demonize the victim and the people will blame them for the problem. It’s the idea, that if a woman wears a sexy dress and she gets raped, it’s all her fault-she wanted it. Demonize the government, demonize the unions, demonize the poor. Hate and resentment builds and the repugs get away with their hurtfilled agenda. People are secondary to the needs of the corporate world. And it is very republican to repeat the lies often enough and the masses will believe and follow. This is just another example of hate filled rhetoric, aimed at the “sick” and thus undeserving individuals.
November 10th, 2009 at 12:46 am.
D!CK ARMEY HAS HAD SOCIAL HEALTH CARE FOR MOST OF HIS LIFE!
D!CK ARMEY KNOWS NOT OF WHAT PRIVATE HEALTH INSURANCE IS!
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November 10th, 2009 at 12:55 amDick Armey can go ad homonym himself with Sarah Palin’s speech writers and Goldman-Sachs’ surplus H1N1 nasal vaccines at Rush Limbaugh house with as much Oxycontin and Socialist shadow straw men as Glenn Beck can find in Marc Sanford’s quaffed Argentine, but I still love you bedroom!
November 10th, 2009 at 1:29 amdick Armey is just projecting . . .
Everywhere there’s lot’s of piggies
Playing piggy pranks
And you can see them on their trotters
Down at the piggy banks
Paying piggy thanks
To thee pig brother
George Harrison
November 10th, 2009 at 2:57 amARMEY: But now, they [government officials] come along and they say, irrespective of the fact they’ve gone 20, 30, 40 years of their adult life without ever having bought insurance prior to getting a liver inflammation due to their excessive drinking habits or diabetes because they eat like a pig, you must now insure them.
Sigh.
People don’t have insurance because they can’t afford it, Mr. Armey. And because they can’t afford health insurance, it’s most likely they can’t afford healthy food either. In case you haven’t noticed Sir, it’s cheaper to eat at McDonald’s than it is to buy fruits, vegetables, and meat.
November 10th, 2009 at 3:22 amGood point bluesunflower
November 10th, 2009 at 4:31 amIt sounds like Armey is describing the red state demographic.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:17 amDick makes the argument for abortion. A responsible mother would have aborted this prick and tried for a better one.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:30 amFigures his name is Dick.
This guy hates humans period and has no use for them apparently.
Mother Army should be ashamed of herself for the up-bringing of this fascist chicken-hawk.
November 10th, 2009 at 8:55 amHere’s the problem DICK. Unless health insurers are forbidden to disqualify people because of pre-existing conditions then we have the situation that we have today i.e. disqualifying people with “pre-existing conditions” like the fact they were raped, abused by a spouse, their child weighs too much or too little, they have an illness that costs to much to take care of, they forgot to report they had acne on their application etc. etc. etc. Do you get it now DICK? Of course you and you always did, but that hasn’t stopped you from being a well paid tool for the insurance industry has it?
Why is it when someone stands in the way of something that will do the people of this country some good, its always a member of the GOP?
November 10th, 2009 at 9:39 amIf Dick had his way, smokers couldn’t call the fire department to have house fires put out, and people walking down a dimly lit street alone wouldn’t be entitled to police protection, because they were engaged in “unsafe” practices. There actually WAS a time when fire departments WERE private branches of fire insurance companies, and fires were not put out if the property owner wasn’t a policyholder. And before the “socialization” of law enforcement, we can look back to the days when private police forces such as Pinkertons were on the payroll of large, powerful corporations.
November 10th, 2009 at 9:42 amWhat would make me (AND presumably Dick Armey) happy would be for him to be transported back to THOSE “good ol’ days”.
Is being an a$$hole a pre-existing condition?
November 10th, 2009 at 12:27 pmI am a living example that shows that Dickie Boy doesn’t know squat about diabetes. I have had health insurance all my life, first under my parents, then when I began working in 1974 after I graduated from college. I have always exercised, eaten properly, and watched my weight, then bam! in 1999 I was diagnosed with diabetes. When I was diagnosed, I told the doctor about my lifestyle, and he told me that, because it was in our family genetic history, I would have had diabetes in spite of anything I had done to prevent it, but that my lifestyle choices did delay its onset.
Stupid man, stupid words. Stupid is as stupid does.
November 10th, 2009 at 2:20 pmUh, people who live in glass houses…you fat-assed creep!
November 10th, 2009 at 2:57 pm