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Amazingly, Brat makes his predecessor, Eric Cantor, seem like a decent person.

Damn, there is no end to the stoopid.

We don’t need poll tests for voters (well, yeah, maybe … they actually vote for these dudes), but we sure as heck need some kind of IQ / civics / history test for candidates for congress.

I swear. Is there no end to the stupidity? South Korea has a national health system! http://southkorea.angloinfo.com/healthcare/health-system/health-insurance/

Mr. Brat should be informed that South Korea, like most economically successful nations not named USA, has compulsory national health insurance far more comprehensive than Obamacare.

From chuck’s link:

South Korea has a National Health Insurance (NHI) system, which is compulsory and required by Korean law. Everyone resident in the country is eligible regardless of nationality or profession. The National Health Insurance Corporation (NHIC) is the only public insurance institution operated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare in Korea.

The system is funded by compulsory contributions from all residents and government subsidies. Payment is made by an individual’s employer unless they are self-employed, in which case they pay it themselves. Foreigners living in South Korea who are registered with the NHIC receive the same medical benefits and services as Korean nationals. The amount an individual pays in NHIC contributions depends on their income and economic power. People who are registered as disabled and those over the age of 65 pay less.

The cover provided by the insurance is comprehensive; it includes health check-ups, tests and diagnosis, treatments, surgeries, preventive care, hospitalisation, nursing, rehabilitation and transportation.

Congressman brat … how is the ACA-private health care complex “North Korean”?

How much campaign money do you get from this complex?

“Look at every country in the world,” Brat said. “Look at North Korea
and South Korea. It’s the same culture, it’s the same people, look at a
map at night, half the, one of the countries is not lit, there’s no
lights, and the bottom free-market country, all Koreans, is lit up. See
you make your bet on which country you want to be, right? You want to go
free market.”

Mr. Brat apparently has a Ph.D. In what, propaganda and bullshitting?

South Korea is one of the world’s most rapidly industrializing countries. Along with industrialization has come universal health insurance. Within the span of 12 years, South Korea went from private voluntary health insurance to government-mandated universal coverage.

The South Korean Healthcare system has had some problems because as the authors conclude:

The following examples of government failure to regulate the supply side
of the market have resulted in excessively high health care
expenditures in both Korea and the United States: (1) a laissez-faire
approach to practices by medical specialists, (2) private
sector–centered hospitals and clinics’ overuse of high medical
technology, and (3) multinational pharmaceutical enterprises’ campaigns
promoting the use of expensive antibiotics and other drugs. Without
successful regulation on the supply side, little financial stability in
health insurance is possible, whether the insurance is nationalized or
private.
…
If the United States wants to establish any public system such as an NHI
program, the state must, first of all, transform the current
private-centered health care system into a public-centered one.

Enough said; check out the reference. Also, Rep Brat is an idiot.

You have insulted idiots the world over.

David Brat’s IQ would have to quintuple before he could be called an idiot.

Thank you.

Hey, what about Nazi Germany? Not fair! How come North Korea gets all the attention?

How is buying insurance from a marketplace comprised of private insurance companies not a free market?

Thanks. That was my first thought also, did the Brat even bother to check whether South Korea has a national health care system? Of course not. Another Republican idiot pulling sound bites out of his ass.

Well, he has to get them from where his head is.

Check out Wikipedia article on Rep. Brat. He’s an economist; business and academic background; Dem governor Kaine appointed him to an economics advisory board. Calling him stupid doesn’t quite do it, does it.

Lars Larson must be presbyopic … there’s a big pot of poo going down in Medford with the mine owners and BLM … but he’s chatting up a Virginian lol.

A Perfectly named Reich-Winger. Rep. BRAT.

Obamacare makes the U.S. a little more like Canada…but not enough.

It’s true: if you look at the U.S. at night from space, it’s practically all dark. Just like North Korea.

Maybe he’s not stupid…but his remark was very stupid.