When the repugican tea baggers say uninsured Americans should die ...

... they are deadly serious.

...as it turns out, Paul was not speaking purely in hypotheticals. back in 2008, Kent Snyder — Paul's former campaign chairman — died of complications from pneumonia. Like the man in Blitzer's example, the 49-year-old Snyder...was relatively young and seemingly healthy when the illness struck. He was also uninsured. [the Kansas City star quoted his sister at the time as saying that a "a pre-existing condition made the premiums too expensive."] when he died on June 26, 2008, two weeks after Paul withdrew his first bid for the presidency, his hospital costs amounted to $400,000. - More