"Party of moral failures: Why Obamacare foes are about to pay a price"

[applegrove]

Party of moral failures: Why Obamacare foes are about to pay a price

by Simon Maloy at Salon/Huffington Post

http://www.salon.com/2014/05/08/party_of_moral_failures_why_obamacare_foes_are_about_to_pay_a_price/

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The Atlantic’s Molly Ball wrote an interesting piece on Tuesday’s Republican Senate primary in North Carolina and how it became an intra-party proxy war pitting the GOP establishment against the Tea Party. Ball went to a Tea Party rally in support of candidate Greg Brannon, and came away with one hell of an anecdote about a woman who under any objective calculus would very much benefit from health coverage, but is deliberately keeping herself uninsured:

I struck up a conversation with a woman with spangly gold fingernails named Sharon Doyle, who spends her free time holding “Impeach Obama” and “Remember Benghazi” signs on highway overpasses a couple of times a month. A caregiver for the elderly who’s had cancer and back surgery, she can’t afford health insurance through her employer, but she refuses to visit the federal health-insurance website for ideological reasons. Of the Republican frontrunner, state House Speaker Thom Tillis, she had only disdain—”He’s a RINO. I don’t trust him”—and said she wouldn’t vote in November if he became the nominee.

There’s a lot to mull over here. Obviously she’s made the decision that adherence to principle outweighs the benefit made available to her by the Affordable Care Act. You could make equally coherent arguments that she’s behaving admirably and being irresponsible. In the end it comes down to what you consider more important: the intellectual value placed on ideological consistency, or the moral value in access to healthcare.




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[WillyT]

1. Wow... She's Her Own Death Panel...

[doxydad]

2. You can lead a horse..

oh, wait,I guess you can't. Doyle sounds like a wing nut, but it's good news for the progressives.