Video: Ron Paul, Romney, Perry, Bachmann on personal health care responsibility, reform law

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Sep 14 2011
In this Kaiser Health News video clip from Monday's Republican debate, the presidential contenders were quizzed about health costs, the individual mandate and - in one of the evening's most controversial exchanges - moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Rep. Ron Paul a hypothetical question about who should pay for someone uninsured and in a coma (9/12). 

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.orgThis article was reprinted from kaiserhealthnews.org with permission from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Kaiser Health News, an editorially independent news service, is a program of the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonpartisan health care policy research organization unaffiliated with Kaiser Permanente.

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  1. Alzheimers: This is a subject for political debate. Will Mr. Ron Paul
    Joanne Renshaw Joanne Renshaw United States says:
    September 16, 2011 at 6:20 PM

    Alzheimers:
    This is a subject for political debate. Will Mr. Ron Paul address whether religious institutions that despise government health care, step up to aid the families that are currently under dire financial straits because of this disease? Never mind hypothetical coma patients. This problem, no doubt, is going to be more and more devastating to Medicare, Medicaid, insurance companies, family finances and their ability to provide home care.  If you have not personally been on the front lines, you can not imagine how devastating this disease is.  You have heard of abandoned babies? Well...

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