Posted on 11/11/2014 6:12:16 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
There is a famous thought experiment called the trolley problem, and it goes like this: A runaway trolley is headed toward five people bound on the tracks. You are standing before the switch that could divert it onto another track, where it would kill only one person. Do you pull the switch?
The trolley problem is the most flattering possible way to think about the conservative movement’s fanatical commitment to repealing Obamacare.
If they pull the switch and repeal Obamacare, or if they persuade five Republican Supreme Court justices to cripple it, they will spare America from the evils of mandates, taxes, regulation, and what they imagine to be European socialist horrors. They will also kill what are now identifiable human beings.
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What a lying sack of Chait.
and the 5 million who lost their healthcare because of Obamacare ? what of THEIR health!?
“They will also kill what are now identifiable human beings.”
Why is the Left always upset about this? It’s just a late-late term abortion! They love it when babies and our elderly, ‘useless feeders’ are left to die.
What’s the problem, Lefties? Are ya mad that only ONE will be killed, versus five?
*SMIRK*
But of course the idea of Death Panels is laughable.
Correct. Obamacare is switching the trolley away from the one person and towards the five.
I just got my insurance package for 2015. My rates are going up 25%. I'll now be paying over $6000 to cover my family for the year.
I suspect a lot of people are going to choose to go without and people will die as a result.
50-60 million aborted babies are of no concern I suppose.
Obama care is a lie, if anyones to blame it his the liar and chief and his clown posse.
Repeal it, save America from this abomination, and further sweep congress + the white house in 2016.
$6000? That’s darn cheap. Thank your lucky stars that’s ALL it is. We are approaching $16000 in premiums alone for hubby and me.
Actually, the question needs to be rephrased:
“A runaway trolley is headed toward five people bound on the tracks. You are standing before the switch that could divert it onto another track, where it would kill only one person.
“And the person on that other track is a welfare recipient, frequent criminal offender, illegal alien radical Muslim drug dealer, who is a reliable Democrat-socialist who votes fraudulently several times in every election, and wants America destroyed.”
Do you pull the switch? Do you argue with other conservatives over who gets to pull the switch?
Chait iis a dutiful Obama boot licker.
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Democrats don't consider them to be "identifiable human beings."
Our office sells health insurance (among a number of other financial services products and functions).
I was listening to one of the reps on the phone the other day, helping someone who called in. She told the person, “realistically, your monthly premium for your family of four, is going to be in the range of $1,300 to $2,000 for next year”.
I gulped. People in Omaha, Nebraska do not have that kind of money for health insurance premiums. That is much more than most pay for housing, would take one worker’s entire take-home paycheck just to pay the insurance premiums... not even considering the deductibles and co-pays.
This is what 0bamacare has created, with the cost-shifting, subsidies, and mandates for coverage people do not want or need, the insurance is not affordable for most people who have to go it alone, without subsidies and/or employer assistance with the premiums.
And let's be honest. Repealing Obamacare will also cause millions to lose their healthcare, many of whom probably are among those who lost their healthcare to begin with. But this time the media will be all over it and blame the Republicans for it.
Not that gun running to Mexico will kill people.
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