Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jim Hanson, the president of Security Studies Group, got into a Twitter argument over whether “death panels” exist in the private health insurance market.
Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday morning lamented the complexity of choosing a health care plan, calling it “one of Dante’s Circles of Hell.”
Also, pretty sure one Dante’s Circles of Hell includes scrolling through a mirror-hall of agonizingly similar healthcare plans like “UHG Choice Master HMO 1800” vs “RedGo Option Plus EPO 2000.”
I don’t know one normal person in this country that actually enjoys open enrollment.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 2, 2018
Hanson, in response, said it will be easier “when our Democrat Socialist overlords simply tell us who will live and who will die #DeathPanels rock.”
Things will be much simpler when our Democrat Socialist overlords simply tell us who will live and who will die#DeathPanels rock https://t.co/4Sz740cd6h
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) December 2, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez then argued that those “death panels” currently exist in the private health insurance market.
“Actually, we have for-profit ‘death panels’ now: they are companies + boards saying you’re on your own bc they won’t cover a critical procedure or medicine,” she said. “Maybe if the GOP stopped hiding behind this ‘socialist’ rock they love to throw, they’d actually engage on-issue for once.”
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Hanson wasn’t letting up, however.
“Nice try,” he said. “But commercial insurance gives people choices about what coverages they want & decide to pay for.”
“Your single payer nightmare will replace that with a one size fits none ‘choice’ decided by faceless bureaucrats,” he wrote. “Coverage for all. Treatment for few.”
Nice try
But commercial insurance gives people choices about what coverages they want & decide to pay forYour single payer nightmare will replace that with a one size fits none “choice” decided by faceless bureaucrats
Coverage for all
Treatment for few— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) December 2, 2018
He continued: “Ask the Brits how they love the #NHS. You’re all playing the Other People’s $$$ will pay for it game.”
“Free Healthcare ain’t free,” he said.
LifeNews Note: Leah Barkoukis writes for TownHall, where this column originally appeared.
