Montana Republican Senate hopeful Tim Sheehy, running in the 2024 primary against popular Dem incumbent Jon Tester, was caught on tape speaking to donors in August about privatizing the American healthcare system, Semafor reports on a big no-no these days as fat former President Trump has been handing Biden enough rope on the same issue with his Obamacare tantrums.
“Our hospitals have been built around federal healthcare subsidies. In my opinion we need to return healthcare to pure privatization,” Sheehy said in his rant that was also supposed to remain private. “I mean, healthcare worked before health insurance existed. Each town had a doctor that would drive to your house, take care of you and you’d pay him. And guess what? It worked. It worked when you actually paid a doctor for services provided. And then we started getting into this HMO, insurance, mega-conglomerate structure,” Sheehy continued, apparently pining for the days when people regularly suffered and died horribly from things like pneumonia and blood poisoning.