Herman Cain: Under ObamaCare I’d Be Dead

Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain is a lucky man. Five years ago he was diagnosed with stage IV cancer in his liver and colon. Today he reports that he is cancer-free. Speaking on this subject, Cain asserted that his luck was due to the fact that he didn’t have to rely on ObamaCare for treatment. Fox Nation reported these remarks that were broadcast on CNN:

“If ObamaCare had been fully implemented when I caught cancer, I’d be dead, and here’s why. I was able to go to the doctors that I wanted to go to – as fast as they could do the tests. I didn’t have to wait six months like you do in other countries in order to get a Cat Scan. And sometimes people die before they get the Cat Scan because the cancer in my body was spreading so fast. But because I was able to get the treatment as soon as I could, and to get the quality care that I did, that’s what has me alive today. You ought to be able to make those choices if you get a serious illness, not some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C.”

From his statement it is apparent that the real reason he was lucky was that he is a wealthy businessman and broadcaster. That’s the reason he was able to go to the doctors that he wanted. That’s the reason he was able to expedite his care. A middle class patient would have had to rely on the generosity of their insurance company and hope the insurer didn’t cancel their policy as a result of filing a claim. Even worse, a poor patient would have to depend on the minimum public services they could wrangle from insufficient and overburdened pre-ObamaCare government programs.

Cain is glad to be alive due to his ability to pay for any medical attention he requires. But he doesn’t care at all about people who aren’t multimillionaires like himself. His insinuation that ObamaCare would have required him to wait for treatment is a flat-out lie. There is nothing in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act that would prohibit him from visiting the doctor of his choice. But it does give a choice to the rest of us who otherwise might be unable to visit a doctor at all.

Furthermore, his slap at government bureaucrats ignores the problem of insurance company bureaucrats. Frankly, I’d prefer to put my life in the hands of a government health care administrator who would base his decision on what is necessary and proper, as opposed to a corporate accountant whose decision is driven by profit.

Herman Cain would not be dead if ObamaCare had been implemented when he “caught” cancer. He would still have been rich and free to see the doctor of his choice. Ironically, while Cain had that luxury, it appears that his doctor may not have been one that he freely chose. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported a couple of months ago that…

“When Mr. Cain found out that the doctor who operated on his cancerous colon was a Muslim, he was bothered by it, he admitted, because ‘based upon the little knowledge that I have of the Muslim religion, you know, they have an objective to convert all infidels or kill them.'”

So even with all his riches he still risked being murdered by a terrorist surgical oncologist. What a world. This is the same man who boasted that he would not appoint Muslims to his Cabinet. I guess the best you can say about Cain’s raging bigotry is that at least he admits that he has “little knowledge.” And isn’t that what Republicans want in a candidate?

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13 thoughts on “Herman Cain: Under ObamaCare I’d Be Dead

  1. Republicans wear their “little knowledge” like a sheriff’s badge.

    • democrats are a living testimony to the fact that darwin is wrong.. they are both unfit and unworthy of survival by the laws of nature.

  2. It’s too bad Cain doesn’t have the slightest bit of self-knowledge; if he did, he’d have recognized how exactly parallel his whole “worried about Mooslem doctor” thing was to his teabagger buddies’ worries about a black doctor…

  3. Herman Cain is someone who you know is an idiot as soon as he opens his mouth and utters a few words. I wonder if anyone has ever done any studies on people who hate their own race? Cain, Clarence Thomas and Allen West all seem to suffer from this malady. He is someone who is so out of touch with the mainstream as most republicans are it is sickening.

  4. How stupid he is. My daughter-in-law grannie doesn’t have insurance and she is 64 and can’t qualify for medicaid. She has a bad heart and the doctor won’t operate. We all pray that she is able to make it til she is 65. She can’t afford insurance. This lady worked all her life and had to retire early because of illness. I am so GDamn pissed at republicans saying you can walk into a ER and get waited on. That isn’t true.

  5. Cain “caught” cancer? You can “catch” it now? Dumbass.

    • your mother should have caught abortion.. your worthless and everyone like you doesnt even deserve to be alive because by the laws of nature you should have gone extinvt because your a worthless, degenerated, drag on the USA.

      • ecuse me “you’re” mother should have “caught” abortion.
        caught being a metaphor for “been a degernerate immoral democrat and “HAD”” an abortion. even in your case where incest is apparently evident

        • I love it when brain dead righties spew insults and fail to make any coherent point. It says so much more about you than those you are insulting.

          • what is your point? to attack a brilliant and outstanding businessman like Herman Cain.

            You pieces of “human filth” stould by while obama
            pronounced marine corpse “corpse” as in cadavar.
            He did this several times in the same speech.. your little bitch is out in 2012 jackass

            your man is a professor of constitutional law and a complete idiot. of course I am not expecting you to get the point because ..well.. your an idiot too.,

            • My point is that Cain is a lying hypocrite.

              Your point is obviously to make a fool of yourself by showing that you cannot have a civil discussion based on facts and logic. Thanks for proving that.

  6. There is only one answer that Cain deserves to his statement.

    Bull%$#& you &%$*ing dumb&$%!

  7. Cain paid for his own care because he is wealthy and can afford it. If he had been a poor black man without insurance, he would be dead. Hope he is publicly called out on this.

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