bachmannrochesterAt an event with First Congressional District candidate Allen Quist on Monday, Rep. Michele Bachmann warned that it’s possible that critics of health care reform could get on a list that would single them out for denial of health care services.

CityPages has a transcript of the appearance:

He said that in Japan, to wait and get health care is almost impossible. You get on a list and you wait and you wait and you wait. But he said this is something people don’t know: in Japan, people have stopped voicing their opinion on health care. There are things that are wrong with Japanese health care, but people are afraid of voicing. ‘Well why is that,’ I asked. [He said], ‘Because they know that would get on a list and they wouldn’t get health care. They wouldn’t get in. They wouldn’t get seen. And so people are afraid. They’re afraid to speak back to government. They’re afraid to say anything.’ Is that what we want for our future? That takes us to gangster government at that point!

The Star Tribune tried to verify the accuracy of Bachmann’s claim that Japanese citizens are denied care if they criticize that nation’s health care system, but could find no mention of such a policy.

The Rochester Post-Bulletin captured this video of the event: