Sen. Rand Paul APPEARS to not understand

[Ilsa]

the issue of shared risk and shared cost of medical insurance. He was using an argument, "Why should a woman with four kids and her tubes tied have to pay for contraceptive coverage?"

I would ask him, "Why does a 25 year old have to pay towards coverage for prostate screening?" the answer, of course, is that all age groups carry a risk of one kind of medical expense or another, but certainly not equally. Having everyone pay for insurance coverage gets coverage for everyone without anyone having to bear all of the costs.

It APPEARS he's not understanding. The truth is, HE'S USING STRAW MAN ARGUMENTS to take down the Affordable Care Act.

[spanone]

1. i think he chooses not to understand.

[Curmudgeoness]

2. And why should someone like me, who used birth control

all of my fertile years, have to pay for the costs of having babies. Seems to me that those who chose to have children cost the "system" a lot more money than I did.

These little arguments over little items are just meant to keep us divided. And the perpetrators of these arguments know it.

[MarianJack]

3. EXACTLY!

PEACE!

[FarLeftFist]

4. Wouldn't that woman rather pay for contraception than unwanted babies?

[Politicalboi]

6. Then she should

Give them up for adoption. See how easy that is in their small minds.

[provis99]

5. why should I pay for the police? I'll protect myself...

why should I pay for schools? I've already graduated...
why should I be forced to have car insurance? I drive safely...
why should I pay for unemployment insurance? I'm not unemployed...

His crap is just the standard, Ayn Rand selfish libertarian crap, this time directed at medical insurance.

[Mz Pip]

11. Why should I pay for

blood transfusions? I'm a Jehovah's Witness.

or mental health care? I'm a Scientologist.

or vaccines? I think they're bad for you.

The list could go on and on.

I'm paying for wars I don't agree with; for foreign aid for countries who don't deserve it, for TSA screening that is a waste of time.

Maybe our tax forms should include a check off sheet and people would only send their tax dollars to things they agreed with.

[Lil Missy]

7. Why should women pay converage for boner pills? Or penile pumps? Or vasectomies!

[EC]

8. Or for his Viagra

for that matter.

[TheKentuckian]

9. That is 100% correct. He is reenforcing and playing off broad misunderstanding

It sells the receptive audience and the gullible on complete nonsense. He is a Senator who was a doctor afterall, authority figure stamped and approval of what many already misunderstand.

Then we eventually all get what they think happens now and of course most of us are screwed, with the added bonus of if we scrape up care, if they fuck us up we are tort reformed into hell and the level of care slides for the fortunate that have it.

[DCKit]

10. Who paid for the births of four kids and a tubal ligation?

Who's paying for the medical coverage of the woman and her four kids?

Hell, why should a woman with the sense to stop at four kids help pay for the medical coverage of the Quiverfull freaks - his conservative, family values base?

[Carla in Sequim]

12. Phony arguments like that make me so mad!

My husband (of 31 years) and I did not have children. We have never complained that a portion of payroll taxes or property taxes fund public education. We all do our share, like the generations before us. That is how it works. Man, these nuts get me so crazy.