Even if it was true that the cost of iPhones and other minor indulgences could buy a year's worth of quality health insurance (as mentioned in the article, it's

Even if it was true that the cost of iPhones and other minor indulgences could buy a year's worth of quality health insurance (as mentioned in the article, it's not even close), I'd still have a hard time seeing the Republican side. My past flirtations with right-libertarianism make it hard to cringe at the idea that society doesn't have to save people from making bad choices, but it's not that simple and the Republicans obviously know it. They're trying to stop a budget review of the Obamacare repeal because they know that the government, hospitals, people paying insurance premiums, and so on, will see a sudden increase in the financial burden they bear for ER treatment of people who lack health insurance (not to mention the wider public health implications and the complicated cost calculations on that). That's what Obamacare was really about, and by some standards it was very effective at addressing the issue. Once again, Republican voters shoot themselves in the foot by cheering for the poor to suffer.