Utah Republican coward Rep. Jason Chaffetz went to the Alice in Wonderland funhouse known as Fox News today as a part of his damage control campaign following the idiotic statement he made. The tl;dr version is he said Americans can make a choice: buy an iPhone for around $700—or pay for health care.
In case you missed it, here it is:
"We're getting rid of the individual mandate. We're getting rid of those things that people said they don't want. Americans have choices and they have to make a choice. Maybe rather than getting the new iPhone they just love, maybe they should invest in their own health care."
As everyone with half a brain pointed out, the $700 cost if an iPhone does not a healthcare plan make—not even close. So, Rep. Chaffetz stared his wife and daughter in the face, kissed a picture President Trump, and walked out of his home and into Fox News studios to say this:
What we're trying to say, and maybe I didn't say it as smoothly as I could but people need to make a responsible choice and I believe in self-reliance. We want people to have access to an affordable product. If they have a pre-existing condition or healthy it's smart to do it. What I don't like is the individual mandate to force people. As an American you have to make decisions and where to make investments. In your health care, maybe a health savings account—which the plan that was introduced is heavy on. Those are the types of things you need to make a choice and decision in your life.
Notice the “we’re” and the distance Chaffetz puts between himself and the plan at the end by talking about it like someone “introduced it” and he was just commenting from far away. The American Renfield continues to crawl on his hands and knees, eating bugs and biting the heads off of rats in the hopes that his overlords will one day let him eat at the big boy table with them, and not out of the bowl marked “woof” on the floor.
Watch the video below, if you can stomach it.
