I know, I mean I remember before the ACA how my rates went down every year and coverage just kept improving because of all that free market competition.

I can learn more skills that are applicable in other jobs/fields. I cannot make an immutable characteristic, like a chronic or congenital health issue, go away. Also, only one of these concerns is based in reality (hint: it’s not the one where those durned immuhgrants are stealin ehr jerbs!)

two of only a few great outcomes from Lyndon B. Johnson’s otherwise fraught time in the white house

Trust me no one gave me anything. I’ve been bankrupt

Trust me no one gave me anything.

I have Cricket and a $30 LG Android phone. I am covered through work on a high deductible plan, but to add my wife and son costs another $850 a month. For a $3,000 deductible. And oh yeah, my son is Autistic, but in order to get the medical diagnosis, we have to get it from a specialist, which isnt covered, and will…

Hardly. With stellar credit I pay $130 a month for my iPhone 7 and a 10GB family share plan (just my cost, not including my wife and mother who’s phone I also pay for). That’s roughly $1,500 a year. I have insurance through my employer, and pay roughly $600 per month in premiums for my family and myself. On top of…

His point about phones is practically of no value. An iPhone costs $600-700; a decent insurance plan can use that in 2 months easy. Personal responsibility is nice when you can afford it; knowing how much money insurance costs is also a part of personal responsibility. People don’t go to the doctors every day but they…

Or, you know, you may not have a smart phone and still not be able to pay your insurance bill... but fuck those people right?

This is one of those legendary Paul Ryan level false equivalencies.

I had a pre-existing condition when I started my last job. My insurer sent a letter saying that they wouldn’t cover any conditions that existed within the 18 months prior to when I started, even though I was on employer provided coverage. That was no longer the case once ACA became law.

Every major US carrier has a interest-free payment plan. Don’t give me that shit.

Libraries are disappearing and encyclopedias are hilariously out of date.

The problem is that no data has been provided that suggests people who can’t afford health insurance instead have iPhones. It’s called a “straw man” - it’s a false opponent, easy to take down using his canned argument.

The cost of a brand new iphone is $670. The median per capita healthcare cost is $10,300.

Great plan! Every poor person should just get a job with great benefits!

$2000 for a full year of health insurance coverage?! How can I get onto that plan?

My medication costs $500 a month. I wonder how many smartphones that is?

I really don’t get how poor people vote republican. I guess racism, sexism TRUMPS classism.

Does Jason Chaffetz, world-famous coward and shit-eating gopher, really thinks that insurance and a phone plan cost the same amount? Or have Republicans really just stopped even trying to hide their “fuck the poor” agenda?