New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait has gone full cuckoo pants. The GOP didn’t only win an election in Chait’s horrible little mind, the GOP won an election and now wants to kill people:
The Republican Party is trying to kill this man http://t.co/uGNsqlHzU4
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) November 10, 2014
This is how you know some media types –e.g. @jonathanchait— are really struggling with accepting election results https://t.co/8T7zh6mgir
— Mollie (@MZHemingway) November 10, 2014
Chait is linking to this op-ed by David Tedrow, a North Carolina man and recent recipient of a transplanted liver, who writes that he has his new liver thanks to the miracle of Obamacare. Tedrow goes on to warn that the Supreme Court, by deciding to hear the King v. Burwell case, is now putting in jeopardy the very Obamacare subsides he thinks saved his life. An excerpt:
In October 2013, I got a letter from my insurance company telling me that my existing high-risk insurance would be ending effective Dec. 31, 2013. I was told that if I wanted continued medical insurance, I would have to find another provider.
I was terrified. At this point, I was so ill that my wife had to be a full-time caregiver for me. We were living on my Social Security Disability check, a drastic change in income for both of us. We could not afford the hundreds of thousands of dollars a liver transplant would have cost. And without insurance, I would have been dropped from the transplant list. I would have died.
My old insurer suggested we sign up for the Affordable Care Act exchange. So I called. The process was messy and frustrating. The Web site crashed; it took days to sign up, and countless phone calls. But eventually, I managed to enroll.
On Jan. 1 this year, I started on the Obamacare insurance. I now pay just $126 a month for insurance; a federal government subsidy covers the rest. If we had to cover the full cost of our health care, we would have just $574 left each month for all of our other expenses, including food and medicines.
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One problem. The reason Tedrow looks to have lost his private insurance in the first place seems to be because of Obamacare:
Were Democrats trying to kill him when Obamacare caused his plan to get canceled? @jonathanchait
— Phil Kerpen (@kerpen) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/RyanLGustafson/status/531636185081606144
https://twitter.com/RyanLGustafson/status/531638651131011072
https://twitter.com/RyanLGustafson/status/531639247162597376
@RyanLGustafson @jonathanchait I'm not subsidizing anything, I just don't think people should have to go bankrupt to have insurance coverage
— Scott Casey (@scasey09) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/RyanLGustafson/status/531640086853873666
Rich and insured — that’s who Obamacare was targeting, right Jonathan?
Many are angry at Chait’s rhetoric — and rightfully so:
https://twitter.com/andylevy/status/531643965062537216
@jonathanchait Really? They want to kill him? They don't want to find a different way to help him, but rather just kill him?
— joshbranson (@joshbranson) November 10, 2014
I guess @jonathanchait tried to kill this cancer patient by supporting Obamacare: http://t.co/RSJ8jB54Xs
— (((AG))) (@AGHamilton29) November 10, 2014
https://twitter.com/RobProvince/status/531641242057469953
https://twitter.com/Neal_Dewing/status/531642018616061953
https://twitter.com/michi83/status/531642975420682243
.@jonathanchait How many fainting couches do you own?
— jon gabriel (@exjon) November 10, 2014
Now, you're just coming off as stupid "@jonathanchait: The Republican Party is trying to kill this man http://t.co/SLmsJsyFDu”
— ML (@just_mindy) November 10, 2014
But we’ll leave it at this, to be charitable:
https://twitter.com/KevinWGlass/status/531643137618636800
On second thought, charitable is for suckers. Chait is evil. And a hack.
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Editor’s note: This post has been updated to correct a misspelling of Chait’s name in the first paragraph.
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