Bachmann: The Obama Administration Plans To Turn Us Into Castro's Cuba With Health Care Plan
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has done it again, Think Progress reports. On Friday, Bachmann said the public-option proposal is in fact a plan to turn America into Cuba, by driving the private health insurance industry out of business:
"What the Obama administration will do with health care is make us like Havana in 1959, when Castro came in," said Bachmann. "In other words, no private health insurance company will be able to write another health insurance policy once the government takeover comes into place."
This is not the first time that Bachmann has likened President Obama's America to Castro's Cuba. Back in March, during her infamous call for revolution, she also said: "Do we get into an inner tube and float 90 miles to some free country? There is no free country for us to repair to. That's why it's up to us now."
She's got a point. If America becomes like every other industrialized nation and guarantees universal health care, where will people take refuge when they yearn to breathe free and go bankrupt from crushing medical costs?
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Bachmann is the wingnutty give that keeps giving. Palin/Bachmann 2012!
July 27, 2009 10:52 AM | Reply | Permalink
Wouldn't that be a sight! Just think if, say 6 months ago, this was going on.
July 27, 2009 12:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
Damn Democrats and their socialism are taking away my God-given right to get sick, go bankrupt and die.
How dare they?
July 27, 2009 10:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
I was under the impression that Cuba has a pretty good health care system. It sure can't be much worse than what we have now!
July 27, 2009 10:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
Actually, cuba's health care system ranks better than the us system, so this is a bad thing? I don't get it.
July 27, 2009 10:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just a note, Cuba's system is so great because of decades of Russian subsidy. Not to diffuse the point...that having Cuba-level care would be GREAT and that's why a Medicare-like public option (single payer being actually better) is the way to go. So many private practitioners, with redundant administrative costs and executive costs and all wasting resource competing with each other cannot possibly achieve the same results.
July 27, 2009 12:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
As someone who happens to be from Cuba...Yes, the health care is great...that is if your doctor’s office or pharmacies have the medication you need... oh yeah thats right the government controls how much medicine each area gets (wouldnt want to be unfair to other areas). I like to see someone try to find a syringe to give someone a shot (doctors and family go door to door to see if anyone has one) I will give everyone an example, my grandfather had to have his leg amputated because of his diabetes, the only problem was that there was not anesthesia ...I will let you guess how this story ends.
September 3, 2009 10:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cuba has great health care and they do phenom research...Bachman and Demint are deminted! They are preaching to the dwindling crowd of repubs and wingnuts...
July 27, 2009 11:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
With the competition coming from Demint and Inhofe, Bachmann knows she has to up her craziness quotient to keep in front in the race to be America's most delusional and demented (or deminted, as the case may be) Congressperson. Still, it's hard to imagine anyone outdoing Batty Bachmann.
July 27, 2009 11:20 AM | Reply | Permalink
Michelle, my belle
Your words and truth don't go together well
Lying Michelle
You're crazy, you're crazy, you're crazy
That's all I want to say
Until I find a way
I will say the only words I know that you'll understand
Wingnut Michelle
July 27, 2009 11:36 AM | Reply | Permalink
We can dream, can't we?
July 27, 2009 11:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
"In other words, no private health insurance company will be able to write another health insurance policy once the government takeover comes into place."
And that would be a bad thing because...?
This statement just proves that Republicans (and the goddamn blue dogs who give them cover) are more interested in insurance companies making a profit than in Americans getting health care. As long as everyone is covered, and the quality of health care is good, who the fuck cares whether or not insurance companies suffer?
July 27, 2009 12:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Eric, this is some first-class snark:
July 27, 2009 1:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, Ms. Bachmann! Ever the reliable comic relief.
I can visualize her with a Carmen Miranda giant banana hat without any difficulty. She needs an appropriate clown costume to match her hallmark buffoonery.
July 27, 2009 3:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Would that it were. Cuba has a higher live expectancy and lower infant mortality than the U.S. What should concern Bachmann is that her constituents would live longer under Cuba's health care system than under ours.
July 27, 2009 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bachmann - still bringing the crazy and spreading it widely.
Thank you, Rep. Bachmann. Please keep talking.
July 27, 2009 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Once again Michelle shows that she's guano loco.
July 27, 2009 5:53 PM | Reply | Permalink