This is with respect to a hypothetical question of a man who was making plenty enough money to insure himself and refused. Subsequently, he needed care, but he had no insurance. Ron Paul answered the question reasonably well and received cheers from the audience. But then Wolf Blitzer persisted and asked if the man should be allowed to die.
That headline needs to be qualified. Unfortunately, some people approved that the man should be allowed to die, but this was not the entire audience, nor even a substantial minority of the audience.
What should also be pointed out is that Ron Paul said that he was a doctor before there was Medicare, and that they never turned away anyone. The premise of the question is false on it face anyhow. Unfortunately, some people fell into this trap, and now they don't look too classy because of it. But that should not reflect on the others, or conservatives in general. It would appear that the Tea Partiers are being impugned as blood thirsty savages. They were cheering individual responsibility, not the man's death.
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