Steyn agrees with caller saying that people without health insurance "need to get a job," calls it "a great point"

Wow. So all these issues with care are just figments of our imagination. I didn't realize!

Those who can't get insurance at all because of preexisting conditions? THEY DON'T EXIST!!!

Insurance companies bailing on customers when the bills get too high? IT NEVER HAPPENS!!!

Heres a story for you Steyn. People do get jobs and apply for health insurance, BUT the premiums either suck, cost too much, or they just don't get none. I worked for SEARS while in college. I wanted dental and medical coverage, but could not get medical only dental. I had to be a full-time employee and have full-time hours to qualify. Now my question to you STEYN is: Can you explain why insurance companies give lousy coverage when jobs do offer insurance or that most college and teenagers are not offered insurance even if they are working part-time? They are employees. They get vacations, holiday pay, they can invest in the companies stock. Why not medical coverage???

What a horses a--. Right MARK easy for you to say. With unemployment approaching 10% this idiot thinks its easy to go out and get a job. Him and other CONSERVATIVES are living in an alternate reality.

It's not like everyone immediately has a solid sum of money of to fork over for Health Care. I mean there are other things that people do pay for especially if they're still trying to find their way in life.

It's not like I have car payments, apartment payments, purchasing food, and clothing, having to pay for gas to get to places, payments for school. No, it's not like if you aren't rich $350 out of your budget isn't a big deal.

Of course that comment that people would use $350 simply for a cable package instead of say for paying for rent can be true, but it's mostly idiotic. Honestly, why would someone is struggling with money pay $350 for cable instead on something for more important?

Terrific idea. Don't suppose Mr. Steyn has one for all of us?

Oh, how silly of me. Like I'd want to work for a fill-in.

This guy is:

A) an open bigot

B) demonstrably delusional beyond belief

C) not American

So why should we do anything but "pfft"? Just another joke of a human spouting off rubbish.

So let me get this straight, a friend of Steyn's had to go to the emergency room---and apparently had no insurance*--and got x-rays, blood work and a CT scan done and it only cost $350??? I had a friend who has no insurance and thought she broke her ankle and went to the emergency room where they diagosed it as a sprain, wrapped her ankle up in a bandage and charged her $650! I'd like to know what emergency room Steyn took his friend to.
And I just loved the caller saying that all these uninsured people need to do is "get a job." What an ass!

* Or maybe she did have insurance and that was her co-pay!

I'm working my butt off at a full time job, but I can't afford my company's health insurance policy. Maybe he's just forgetting that not everyone with a job earns six figures a year. These conservatives seem to be precariously sheltered from that fact.

Or, completely uncaring. That could be too.

So what if you have a job and still don't have insurance? Wait I know. You can go work somewhere else if you don't like it. That's the con answer to every workplace complaint.

What if they don't want to hire you?

Jobs are just all over the place, aren't they? Gosh, that means the reason I couldn't find one for 8 months was simply because I was too lazy to get off the couch and go get one! Those jobs with insurance are everywhere!

Here's what I'd like to know- does Rush ever host his own show anymore? There's something really lame about a guy who is always on vacation having a stand-in who encourages the idea that the only people who don't have health care are lazy slobs who don't want to work.

Maybe Limbaugh and Steyn think that everyone should get jobs where they take off 200 days a year.

Ah, yet another compassionate christian conservative speaks out. How Christlike they all are. Great point! Hey!....wait a minute. He sounds like a foreigner.