The Republicans' Choice: Politics? Or The Health Of Their Constituents?

The real death panels are all sponsored by Republican "free markets" which always leave tens of millions of Americans without healthcare coverage, a circumstance that results in 45,000 needless deaths a year. (That's about half a million a decade.)

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html

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See Pope Francis' new "apostolic exhortation" on Republican death panels:

"Pope Francis Rips Capitalism, Free Markets And Trickle-Down Economics"

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/11/pope-francis-rips-capitalism-and.html

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"[T]he real fix for 70 percent (or so) of people whose policies have been canceled is to get new, subsidized coverage through exchanges, or to enroll in Medicaid. Once Healthcare.gov is working at high capacity, they'll owe people with canceled coverage more than just the play-acting they've offered for the past month. Democrats will be helping these people find such coverage. Will Republicans?"Brian Beutler in Salon

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The hard, central "fact" of contemporary "conservatism" is its persistent postulation of a socio-economic (and racial) threshold above which people deserve government assistance, and below which people deserve to die. 

The sooner the better. 

Unless conservatives are showing n'er-do-wells The Door of Doom, they just don't "feel right."

To allay this chthonic anxiety, they resort to Human Sacrifice, 

hoping that spilled blood will placate "the angry gods," including the one they've made of themselves.

http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2013/09/harvard-study-45000-americans-die.html

Having poked their eyes out, they fail to see  that self-generated wrath creates "the gods" who hold them thrall.