Death panels are apparently okay as long as they’re making decisions that benefit shareholders.

Yeah, the government controls your health care whether or not they’re actually running the hospitals.

Plus, the GOP loves statements like that because they actively sabotage the government. While far from perfect, plenty of countries are capable of adequately running public health care systems, along with plenty of other government programs (roads, prisons, education, national defense, etc). The GOP’s whole strategy is to purposefully break systems and then point at the broken system and claim that this is why we need to privatize it. Government run programs are just as good as the government as a whole, and the GOP are poisoning the US government.

Always pissed me off because if you have to choose do you want an unelected corporation concerned primarily with profits controlling access to your healthcare or one where you have the ability to vote them out?

Just a moronic talking point all the way down.

One of the core principles of Republican thought is “no one tells me what to do. I tell other people what to do.” Everything else follows from that.

Well that and the "in groups for laws to protect but not bind, outgroups for laws to bind but not protect " thing.

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Mmm…and for certain populations control isn’t the goal, extermination is seen as the next logical step.

I’m sorry, but I think that this bot really needs some work, or to move to a different engine. Every time I read the summary and then read the article, the bot has missed major points or the entire thrust of the article/opinion, and instead uses minutiae that contribute to the piece only in the presence of the original (but now stripped) context.

The central thesis of the article is that the gop wants to use healthcare policies to restrict healthcare that they feel has a conflict with their religious or conservative worldviews. They don’t want to guarantee the rights of trans persons or people seeking abortions against discrimination but instead want the government to regulate what kinds of healthcare are legal. They want to remove decisions from the hands of medical professionals and patients and instead have it regulated by government bureaucrats who lack any relevant education. On the other hand, they do not want the government - even the parts of the government that are intentionally staffed with medical experts - to make decisions about things like pandemic policies.

This kind of paragraph is far more characteristic of the tone and focus of the article than most of the summary:

But a few select moments revealed that GOP candidates, while perfectly comfortable interfering with certain medical decisions, remain opposed to using that same government authority to provide assistance to people who need access to health care or to protect people whose health may be at risk in a public health emergency.