# Could anti-healthcare reform rhetoric backfire on the Republicans?

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**Created:** [March 18, 2010, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-anti-healthcare-reform-rhetoric-backfire-on-the-republicans/532899 "2010-03-18T16:05:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 18, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-anti-healthcare-reform-rhetoric-backfire-on-the-republicans/532899/38 "2010-03-18T21:17:12Z")

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> [@Oakminster](#):
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> I’d like a cite for **Bricker** saying that. I don’t remember seeing him post anything close to “poor people should die if they can’t afford health care”.

Here you go, I had to sift through a lot of crap to find this gem.

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> [@Dispelling US Health Care Myths: Part 1](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dispelling-us-health-care-myths-part-1/525997/246):
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> It is acceptable for people to die because they can’t afford the proper treatment.

]([http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12041602&postcount=246](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=12041602&postcount=246))

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