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According to CNSNews.com, on Friday, May 14, 2010, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif) recently told “aspiring musicians” they could quite their jobs since taxpayers will cover their health care. Video reporter Nicholas Ballasy said “Pelosi made the remarks while speaking at the Capitol on Wednesday to the Asian American and Pacific Islanders Summit.”

Ballasy’s full report said:

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said this week that thanks to the new health-care reform law, musicians and other creative types could quit their jobs and focus on developing their talents because taxpayers would fund their health care coverage. “

““We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said, “a bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care.”

To view the video from Ballasy’s report click here.

UPDATE (5/22/10): Big Government notes (+ HT) this editorial yesterday from the Las Vegas Review-Journal, which editorialized about Speaker Pelosi's "new defense of her party's unpopular health care reforms: They guarantee coverage for the next generation of dropout hippies and starving artists."  The paper concludes its editorial by writing:

"It was bad enough that Rep. Pelosi, President Obama and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid saw fit to raise taxes on businesses and increase medical costs on families as part of their health care takeover. Now we get confirmation that it's an entitlement for slackers, too.

Which raises an important question: If everyone decides to quit their jobs and "focus on their passions," who'll pay for their health care then?"