Liberals don’t like to be told what to do, unless they’re told to buy really expensive healthcare from the government. That they love. But when House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) said people need to prioritize spending on healthcare above buying the latest iPhone, it chaffed their sensibilities.
“Well, we’re getting rid of the individual mandate. We’re getting rid of those things that people said that they don’t want,” Chaffetz said of the revised GOP healthcare bill. “Americans have choices, and they’ve got to make a choice. So, rather than getting that new iPhone that they just love and want to go spend hundreds of dollars on that, maybe they should invest in their own health care.”
Sound advice, right? Not if it’s coming from an evil Republican. Nancy Pelosi, et al., said the congressman’s comments lacked compassion and empathy for others.
Now, had President Obama said it, that would’ve been a different story. Oh, wait, he did, back in 2014 when he was defending the high costs of Obamacare:
“I guess what I would say is if you looked at that person’s budget and you looked at their cable bill, their telephone … cell phone bill, other things that they’re spending on, it may turn out that they just haven’t prioritized health care because right now everybody is healthy. Nobody actually wants to spend money on health insurance until they get sick.”
Well, well, well:
Unfortunately, Chaffetz has since put out a soft apology for not saying it “as smoothly as I possibly could.” But as a believer in “self-reliance,” he said people are “going to have to make those decisions.”
Right! Never apologize for telling the truth.