Title: Digby GOP health plan: People could die and that's OK
Headings: GOP Health Plan: 'People Could Die and That's OK'
GOP Health Plan: 'People Could Die and That's OK'
It’s time to call the right-wing’s free-market health care approach what it is: a death trap for the non-rich
By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
From The Progressive Populist, March 1, 2015

Content: If you’re looking for a handout you’re in the wrong end of town,” another man said. He added, “nothing for free, over here you have to work for everything you get.” The lovely gentleman who threw a dollar in his face put the begging principle in stark terms yelling “I’ll decide when to give money!” The immediate future of the health care reforms will be decided this June by the Supreme Court as they take up King vs Burwell (also known as the “Typo Of Death” case.) In the meantime, as that argument is on hold the right is moving against the safety net from this other direction. Basically, MediaMatters.org reported, they are challenging the the definition of modern medicine itself: Fox News Radio host Tom Sullivan told a caller who said she suffered from bipolar disorder that her illness is “something made up by the mental health business” and just “the latest fad.” When the caller told Sullivan that she “would not be alive today” if she hadn’t received mental health treatment, Sullivan wondered if “maybe somebody’s talked you into feeling and thinking this way.” Sullivan, who is also a frequent Fox Business contributor and guest anchor, began his Jan. 28 program by complaining that people with mental illness have figured how to “game the system” by receiving disability benefits. “ They’re mostly government employees and they know how to do it,” he added.