Town Hall: Idiot Admits He Used Medicare for Life-Saving Surgery, Decries Health Care Handouts

First part of video: Rep. Bobby Scott (D-VA-3rd District) responds to allegations from a lady wingnut that he does not pay into Social Security by assuring her that he does, but wingnuts yell insistently that he does not, despite his assurance and the assertion of a woman in the crowd who works for Social Security.

Second part of video: In an astonishing example of cognitive dissonance, a man admits he received Medicare to pay for his life-saving $350,000 bilateral lung transplant a few years ago, and goes on to say that now that he is successful, he should not have to pay for the health care of others who, he is certain, make "poor life choices" and live in "the projects."

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• richmond va
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• ignorance
• medicare

[13tgrshark]

What a lying piece of filth that wingnut is. If he really felt that poor people shouldn't be helped, why did he take the $350K "handout" from the government? Typical wingnut hypocrisy.

[68spaceman]

Right wing conservatives aren't necessarily greedier than anyone else but they definately are way more selfish; the 'every man for himself' brigade. How do you encourage a selfish person to be more sharing/caring? Dunno. Every right winger I know is staunch on their idealism. Most of us know that we need sharing, community, friendship, empathy to survive and thrive, not just money. Conservatives gain support mainly through misinformation using the right wing echo chamber. Stop the propaganda.

[MihaiBorcan]

The guys said he paid 11% of his income in taxes and his complaining. What a joke.

[dlhitch2007]

So I guess in his system, a special panel would evaluate your resume and decide if you are worthy to receive medicare.

[newhub]

Have him pay for his heart surgery now with interest and fees and see how he likes it.

[thebestanswerever]

god I wish we could find a way to see how much these greedy fucks really donate to charity, its like bush and his trickle down economics, they never seemed to trickle down, gee wonder if that has anything to do with greed, or maybe they just donated it to charity, lmao, why do statistics show that in the past ten years the rich have gotten much richer but the poor have gotten much poorer, I'm over it, everyone know's teabaggers and republicansts are full of it, greedy bastards

[irvnz]

the point is that governments especially the Feds are the least qualified to provide a personal service, when in truth they are a set of individuals with personal agendas and not necessarily coincident with one's own

[animateclay]

How can you go against medicare when you use it and were happy?

Well the issue is actually like saying - if you visit communist China and break a leg and they fix it, could you go against communist health run care? Or fascists, or totalitarian? How about anarchist?

It's what you have available, right or wrong. You have no choice.

The issue is why do we have to rely on medicare? Because of other problems that need fixing. Problems many are protesting at the town halls.