An extraordinary interview with a Tea Party leader

Patricia Rucker is a Tea Party leader in West Virginia. And she doesn’t think the government should not be involved in health care. Oh, and also? Her husband is a furloughed federal employee. So she gets health care from the government.

As an NPR commenter points out, “one hopes the Ruckers are returning their social security, Medicare, and other monies that may be used for health care. And that our military is turning over their treatment of veterans and those in current service over to the private sector. And that the Centers for Disease Control and the National Institutes of Health be abolished or turned over to the private sector so that maximum profit can be made off of other's misfortune.”