Jason Chaffetz To Poor: Your iPhone Or Your Doctor

[Lakhota]

Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn’t Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee says millions of Americans who might lose health insurance need to “make a choice.”

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is proposing a quick fix for low-income Americans unable to afford coverage under President Donald Trump’s newly proposed health care law: Don’t buy an iPhone.

The American Health Care Act, unveiled by House Republican leaders Monday, offers less financial assistance to low-income people than former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, so it would likely result in millions of Americans losing the health coverage they have today.

But the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Tuesday that Americans who might struggle to afford insurance under the GOP plan simply need to make the choice to “invest in health care.”

“Americans have choices, and they’ve got to make a choice,” Chaffetz said Tuesday on CNN. “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. They’ve got to make those decisions themselves.”

More: Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn't Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

Wow! Just wow! Why would anyone have to choose between healthcare and an iPhone? Most likely those who are on the financial edge don't have a home landline. Are they not supposed to have some form of electronic communication?

 

[edthecynic]

Poor people DON'T have iPhones!!!!! The cheapest one is about $500. If the poor have any kind of cell phone it is probably a flip phone or a BushPhone.

 

[SassyIrishLass]

There is problem when people are getting free healthcare, wearing Nikes, sporting an Iphone, etc....and on public assistance.

Chaffetz isn't far off the mark

 

[Lakhota]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Poor people DON'T have iPhones!!!!! The cheapest one is about $500. If the poor have any kind of cell phone it is probably a flip phone or a BushPhone.

Baloney

 

[edthecynic]

Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn’t Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee says millions of Americans who might lose health insurance need to “make a choice.”

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is proposing a quick fix for low-income Americans unable to afford coverage under President Donald Trump’s newly proposed health care law: Don’t buy an iPhone.

The American Health Care Act, unveiled by House Republican leaders Monday, offers less financial assistance to low-income people than former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, so it would likely result in millions of Americans losing the health coverage they have today.

But the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Tuesday that Americans who might struggle to afford insurance under the GOP plan simply need to make the choice to “invest in health care.”

“Americans have choices, and they’ve got to make a choice,” Chaffetz said Tuesday on CNN. “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. They’ve got to make those decisions themselves.”

More: Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn't Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

Wow! Just wow! Why would anyone have to choose between healthcare and an iPhone? Most likely those who are on the financial edge don't have a home landline. Are they not supposed to have some form of electronic communication?

Reagan/Bush phones are NOT iPhones!!! They are cheap $5 flip phones.

 

[Rustic]

Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn’t Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee says millions of Americans who might lose health insurance need to “make a choice.”

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is proposing a quick fix for low-income Americans unable to afford coverage under President Donald Trump’s newly proposed health care law: Don’t buy an iPhone.

The American Health Care Act, unveiled by House Republican leaders Monday, offers less financial assistance to low-income people than former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, so it would likely result in millions of Americans losing the health coverage they have today.

But the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Tuesday that Americans who might struggle to afford insurance under the GOP plan simply need to make the choice to “invest in health care.”

“Americans have choices, and they’ve got to make a choice,” Chaffetz said Tuesday on CNN. “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. They’ve got to make those decisions themselves.”

More: Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn't Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

Wow! Just wow! Why would anyone have to choose between healthcare and an iPhone? Most likely those who are on the financial edge don't have a home landline. Are they not supposed to have some form of electronic communication?

Reagan/Bush phones are NOT iPhones!!! They are cheap $5 flip phones.

Anyone that has a phone of any sort should be able to afford to pay for it… People ought not expect other people to pay for their shit.

 

[Avatar4321]

I don't remember you being upset when Obama said that

 

[SassyIrishLass]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

I never said that, but a basic phone doesn't cost over 500 bucks

 

[Lakhota]

I don't remember you being upset when Obama said that

What did Obama say? Link?

 

[Lakhota]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

I never said that, but a basic phone doesn't cost over 500 bucks

So what is Chaffetz's point?

 

[Rustic]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

Washington Redskin
People should only have what they can afford, spending less than one makes is the easiest thing in the world to do… Fact

 

[Darkwind]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

No, poor people are expected to make choices like the rest of us.

A poor person who refuses to pay for medical insurance should not be subsidized by the taxpayer when they can afford expensive items like phones, TV's, and other "trendy" items.

 

[martybegan]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

I had to settle for a Nissan Sentra instead of a Maxima, because I had to make a choice between higher payments and needing $$ for other things. He's just highlighting the same decision needed by people lower on the economic totem pole.

 

[Book of Jeremiah]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

I didn't know iphones were a "need." I thought that fell under the "want" category. Silly me.

 

[Lakhota]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

No, poor people are expected to make choices like the rest of us.

A poor person who refuses to pay for medical insurance should not be subsidized by the taxpayer when they can afford expensive items like phones, TV's, and other "trendy" items.

How many poor people do you know who have to choose between healthcare and an iPhone? I don't know of any - but I know of poor people who have cheap cellphones as their only method of electronic communication.

 

[edthecynic]

Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn’t Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

The chairman of the House Oversight Committee says millions of Americans who might lose health insurance need to “make a choice.”

Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) is proposing a quick fix for low-income Americans unable to afford coverage under President Donald Trump’s newly proposed health care law: Don’t buy an iPhone.

The American Health Care Act, unveiled by House Republican leaders Monday, offers less financial assistance to low-income people than former President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, so it would likely result in millions of Americans losing the health coverage they have today.

But the Republican chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said Tuesday that Americans who might struggle to afford insurance under the GOP plan simply need to make the choice to “invest in health care.”

“Americans have choices, and they’ve got to make a choice,” Chaffetz said Tuesday on CNN. “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. They’ve got to make those decisions themselves.”

More: Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn't Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

Wow! Just wow! Why would anyone have to choose between healthcare and an iPhone? Most likely those who are on the financial edge don't have a home landline. Are they not supposed to have some form of electronic communication?

Reagan/Bush phones are NOT iPhones!!! They are cheap $5 flip phones.

Anyone that has a phone of any sort should be able to afford to pay for it… People ought not expect other people to pay for their shit.

That is not the point, the point is that Chaffetz is a typical Right-wing idiot to think that poor people buy iPhones! They buy a flip phone that is under $20 and a cheap pay as you go plan, not an expensive smart phone with unlimited data.

It just shows how far out of touch the GOP is with the average Americans they claim to be looking out for.

 

[tyroneweaver]

Are poor people not supposed to have a phone? Really?

Obama told the mexicans the same thing down in Mexico.
Ya might wanna look that up.
So once again you prove my point that libs are everything they preach against.

 

[Meathead]

Jason Chaffetz: Poor People Shouldn’t Buy iPhones If They Need Money For Health Care

So iphones and healthcare are constitutional rights?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The right just gets lower and lower. FACT is, the Rs are doing what they always do - taking from the poor and giving to the rich. The poor, elderly, vets, handicapped won't be choosing between an expensive pnone and health care. They never have. However, thanks to the right, they will still have to choose between food/rent and healthcare.

And the RWNJ assholes love knowing these people are struggling just to survive.

Rustic Please stop with the "ObamaPhone" lie. It makes you look just as stupid and ignorant as we all know you are.