Ron Paul's campaign manager from '08 died broke and in his forties of pneumonia and gifted his elderly mother with a $400,000 hospital bill—all because he was uninsured. Allegedly, he had a "pre-existing condition" that made health insurance too expensive.

But as Gawker points out, isn't this almost an exact playing-out of the hypothetical posed at that last, blood-thirsty Tea Party debate?