Why bother to parse what the audience thought -- although it was quite clear. But surely we'll agree that actions speak louder than words. Let's just look at what Ron Paul apparently believes and does in his own life.
If he's going to let his own campaign manager die without insurance just two weeks after he dropped out of the campaign, do you think he'd even piss on you if you were on fire??
At the fifth GOP debate this week, moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul, a doctor, whether someone who opts to not buy health insurance and then gets sick should be allowed to die. The crowd responded with startling shouts of "Yeah!" followed by applause, leaving even Rick Perry "taken aback." Paul's answer, while more gentle, was more or less the same. "That's what freedom is all about: taking your own risks. This whole idea that you have to take care of everybody ... " said Paul, who was cut off by clapping from the audience. While you wouldn't know it from his answer, Blizter's hypothetical probably hit close to home for Paul, whose campaign manager Kent Snyder died young of pneumonia — without insurance — in 2008.
He was just 49 years old when he died of complications from the virus on June 26, two weeks after Paul dropped out of the race. Snyder's mother was left with around $400,000 in medical costs. Paul supporters set up a donation fund to help with the debt.
http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2011/09...nager_die.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_961812.html
The sleazy bastard Paul, who lest we all forget, is a damned doctor, wrote "Like so many in our movement, Kent sacrificed much for the cause of liberty. Kent poured every ounce of his being into our fight for freedom. He will always hold a place in my heart and in the hearts of my family."
But just not a big enough place in his heart to pay for group health care coverage that might have saved to poor guy's life. Or at least wouldn't have stuck his poor grieving mother with nearly half a million in unpaid medical bills.
CuteOldGuy, who apparently is more heartless than Dr. Paul -- as hard as that is to conceive -- want to make it even worse and keep poor old mom from even declaring bankruptcy once the good doctor has fucked his flunky.
Meanwhile, I -- as best I can tell the only swinging dick in this room that actually pays for health insurance for his employees, CuteOldGuy's arguments to the contrary notwithstanding -- ends up paying for Dr. Paul's profligate irresponsibility because guess who else is getting screwed besides deal or grieving mom? The poor dead guys doctors. So my insurance rates go up so this irresponsible and immoral motherfucker (literally in this case, having financially fucked the deceased's mother) can blather on about his meaningless, immoral, and cruel version of "freedom."