Senator Apologizes After Joke About Losing His Mammograms In GOP Bill

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/roberts-mammograms

As the House struggles to agree on a path forward on its bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, GOP leaders may cave to a demand from hardline conservatives to scrap Obamacare's Essential Health Benefits rule—the mandate that insurance plans cover things like hospitalizations, prescription drugs, mental health and maternity care.

TPM asked Republicans on the other side of the Capitol about whether such a move would fly in the Senate.

Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), when asked if he supports scrapping EHBs, deadpanned: "I sure don't want my mammogram benefits taken away."

Roberts' comments provoked immediate reaction from some Democratic congresswomen, and Roberts soon tweeted an apology. "I deeply regret my comments on a very important topic," Roberts tweeted. "Mammograms are essential to women's health & I never intended to indicate otherwise."

Hey, hundreds of men die from breast cancer every year too, but glad we can all joke about this.

[Motley13]

1. his prostate is probably a preexisting condition & so is his brain disorder

[Phoenix61]

2. Really?!?

What a fucking piece of shit, piss poor excuse for a human being. Like saying sorry makes it all ok. How big of a low life do you have to be to joke about breast cancer? Since when is there anything at all funny about it. When you find a lump? When they call you back because the screening mammography they took shows a problem? Before the biopsy? After the biopsy? When, exactly when is it something to make a joke about?

[phylny]

3. Fuck him.

My breast cancer was found early. Stage ZERO early. I couldn't feel a thing. Want to guess how I was diagnosed? Routine screening mammogram found it.

Fucking asshole. I'm alive because of insurance.

[Skidmore]

4. Doesn't he know that men can get breast cancer too? nt

[Freedomofspeech]

5. What an asshole.

I hate them all.

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6. Yeah, I've lost a lot of "kum ba yah" sentiment over the past few months

Fuck these humanoid shitbags.

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7. I know a man who had breast cancer

Maybe that senator should experience something like that and it wont' be so funny.

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9. An uncle of mine died from it

Part of why this pissed me off so much.

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10. sorry for your loss

It always amazes me how evil those people are who have never lost someone or feared such a disease.

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12. Yeah. It would be hilarious except for, you know, the outcome

But thank you. And I really want to unseat this piece of crap.

[Generic Brad]

8. That's my Senator! (sigh)

[dalton99a]

11. Vile scum