Former Congressman Alan Grayson, who famously described Republican health care policy as “don’t get sick” and “die quickly if you get sick,” slammed the audience at CNN’s Tea Party debate for cheering the idea of letting an uninsured 30-year old accident victim die.
“What you saw tonight is something much more sinister than not having a healthcare plan,” he told the Huffington Post on Tuesday. “It’s sadism, pure and simple. It’s the same impulse that led people in the Coliseum to cheer when the lions ate the Christians. And that seems to be where we are heading — bread and circuses, without the bread. The world that Hobbes wrote about — “the war of all against all.”
It’s worth noting that the law requiring hospitals to treat sick people in emergency situations has nothing to do with the 2009 health care debate — it was passed in 1986 and signed by President Reagan.