Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Jim Hanson, the president of Security Studies Group, got into a Twitter argument over whether “death panels” exist in the private health insurance market.
Ocasio-Cortez on Sunday morning lamented the complexity of choosing a health care plan, calling it “one of Dante’s Circles of Hell.”
Also, pretty sure one Dante’s Circles of Hell includes scrolling through a mirror-hall of agonizingly similar healthcare plans like “UHG Choice Master HMO 1800” vs “RedGo Option Plus EPO 2000.”
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 2, 2018
I don’t know one normal person in this country that actually enjoys open enrollment.
Hanson, in response, said it will be easier “when our Democrat Socialist overlords simply tell us who will live and who will die #DeathPanels rock.”
Things will be much simpler when our Democrat Socialist overlords simply tell us who will live and who will die#DeathPanels rock https://t.co/4Sz740cd6h
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) December 2, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez then argued that those “death panels” currently exist in the private health insurance market.
"Actually, we have for-profit 'death panels' now: they are companies + boards saying you’re on your own bc they won’t cover a critical procedure or medicine,” she said. "Maybe if the GOP stopped hiding behind this 'socialist' rock they love to throw, they’d actually engage on-issue for once."
Actually, we have for-profit “death panels” now: they are companies + boards saying you’re on your own bc they won’t cover a critical procedure or medicine.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) December 2, 2018
Maybe if the GOP stopped hiding behind this “socialist” rock they love to throw, they’d actually engage on-issue for once. https://t.co/4P2TrflkFX
Hanson wasn’t letting up, however.
"Nice try," he said. "But commercial insurance gives people choices about what coverages they want & decide to pay for."
"Your single payer nightmare will replace that with a one size fits none 'choice' decided by faceless bureaucrats," he wrote. "Coverage for all. Treatment for few."
Nice try
— Jim Hanson (@Uncle_Jimbo) December 2, 2018
But commercial insurance gives people choices about what coverages they want & decide to pay for
Your single payer nightmare will replace that with a one size fits none "choice" decided by faceless bureaucrats
Coverage for all
Treatment for few
He continued: "Ask the Brits how they love the #NHS. You're all playing the Other People's $$$ will pay for it game."
"Free Healthcare ain't free," he said.