Miss USA Kara McCullough thinks unemployed shouldnt have health care

[workinclasszero]

Miss USA Kara McCullough thinks unemployed shouldn’t have health care
Kara McCullough says coverage is a "privilege," not a right
Matthew Rozsa Monday, May 15, 2017 12:56 PM CST

The future of the American Health Care Act may remain unclear, but one thing is certain: Kara McCullough, who on Sunday night went from being Miss District of Columbia to Miss USA, doesn’t have much sympathy for people who don’t have health insurance.

According to a report by the New York Daily News,McCullough said that she believes health care is not a right but merely a “privilege,” during a question-and-answer session for the pageant at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center on the Las Vegas Strip.

When addressing a query about her health-care views, McCullough said that, “I’m definitely going to say it’s a privilege. As a government employee, I’m granted health care. And I see firsthand that for one to have health care, you need to have jobs — so therefore, we need to continue to cultivate this environment so that we’re given the opportunities to have health care as well as jobs for all Americans worldwide.”

http://www.salon.com/2017/05/15/miss-usa-kara-mccullough-health-care/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. It's a beauty pageant, not a brains pageant. Obviously.

[Orrex]

10. Well, she's a radiochemist

With the NRC.

Of course, she can clearly be smart and still be very wrong.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. It's possible to be very good at a technical thing and still be very stupid.

Exhibit A: Ben Carson.

[Orrex]

18. It's also possible that she's very smart and simply wrong.

Exhibit A: Every smart person in the history of humanity who wasn't absolutely correct about absolutely everything at all times.

[LanternWaste]

43. So many possibilities.

So many possibilities. So many absolute premises. So many unsupported conclusions.

[Orrex]

44. So many empty platitudes. In one post.

So a box of fortune cookies. Dumped in the forest.

[kcr]

33. I'm with you. Her statement was dangerously close to word salad at the end.

That is not a person who is thoughtful or introspective at all. She could very well be good at some technical things and a capable person overall, but still dumb as a box of rocks.

[karynnj]

24. Agreed, She like many have ample intelligence - it is her values that are the problem

Her comments suggest that everyone should just get a very good job and then they would have insurance. I guess she could have added that that good job would also provide an ample salary allowing everyone to afford a nice home and other needs. I think she is right on both of these things --- but the problem is that there are many who do not qualify or can't get these good jobs ... and there are the kids of people who can not get these jobs.

I would bet that she was born with many advantages that she does not even see as not given to all. Clearly - not having seen a photo - she is unusually beautiful, given her job, she is more educated and likely smarter than the average person. Rather than feeling fortunate that she was given so much, she seems oblivious to her own good fortune.

[Orrex]

25. Wonderful post from start to finish!

[blm]

34. karynnj's posts are always must reads.

.

[Crunchy Frog]

29. Message deleted by DU the Administrators

[COLGATE4]

2. Proving once again that brains are not a prerequisite

to winning a beauty contest.

[workinclasszero]

6. Nor having a soul or heart either

It seems.

I hope all these hardcore Randian republican disciples get whats coming to them one day.

[snooper2]

7. Well, she is a radiochemist - Maybe she is just an asshole as well?

[Orrex]

11. That

[jpak]

3. She forgot to say "such as"

[Brother Buzz]

22. I kid you not, Miss South Carolina was signed by Trump's modeling agency

I can not confirm it, but I understand Trump appointed her keeper of the White House Map Room.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caitlin_Upton

[Bleacher Creature]

4. And this is why Trump is merely a symptom to a much bigger problem.

We've somehow lost our sense of unity and compassion as a nation, and until we fix it we'll never really be able to move forward.

[workinclasszero]

9. The right wing organs of hate..Fox news, Hate radio, the republican party and the religious right

Have successfully separated America into the wealthy and well to do VS the useless eaters (democrats, old, sick, poor, PoC, unemployed).

And they go to church every Sunday and thank God they aren't one of them.

[appleannie1943]

5. And, what about people that do have jobs but get paid so little they can't afford housing, let alone

health insurance? Or people that for one reason or another can't work? They need healthcare more than a healthy person. I think she is a poor example of a representative for the USA.

[B2G]

14. You should delete that trash immediately. nt

[maryellen99]

13. For those calling her stupid because she's a beauty queen

She got her degree in Nuclear Chemistry and is a scientist who works for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

[mac56]

15. As noted above: it is possible to master a very technical specialty, and still be very stupid.

Ben Carson.

[workinclasszero]

19. I believe the architects of Hitlers Final Solution

were all college graduates as well, not to mention the Angel of Death, Dr Mengele.

An educated person can be evil as hell too.

It is a condition of the soul not logic.

[DURHAM D]

17. She is a perfect example of

someone who is bright but not smart.

Also, she is not a feminist. She thinks it is anti-male.

Tell all the men who self-define as feminists.

[tenderfoot]

23. Fine, she's not stupid just a heartless asshole.

Feel better now?

[LenaBaby61]

31. "Fine, she's not stupid just a heartless asshole."

Feel better now?

[HughBeaumont]

16. Miss US-AnCap.

Textbook case of "I got mine".

And this mentality runs America.

[Vinca]

20. Well, isn't that special? I hope she never finds herself unemployed and stricken with a disease.

We might have to euthanize her.

[raccoon]

21. She must be such an idiot she believes that nice, well-spoken, well-educated people have jobs that

provide group health insurance, and only people who are sorry, lazy, and/or not very well educated don't have insurance
through their jobs.

Republicans often think that, I've noticed, that if you don't have health insurance with your employer, it is YOUR problem. I didn't have insurance with my cheapo employer for years and I had Republicans say things to me such as, "Why don't you have it?" and
something to the effect that I just needed to find a job that did offer it. (Like, now WHY didn't I think of that?)

This stupid woman is a--well, the word I'm thinking of is one that will probably get my post yanked if I used it.

[Doodley]

27. She didn't say what you say she believes. Why are you calling her stupid?

[raccoon]

46. True, she didn't say that. But her saying health care is a privilege

because she's LUCKY enough to have insurance through her employer, that
really gets me.

The idea that health care is a privilege, I have no patience with that.

[Doodley]

26. I think she just didn't express herself clearly. I don't have a big problem with what I think she

meant to say, if true.

[B2G]

30. I was wondering about how the question was phrased.

"Is" and "Should be" are 2 completely different things.

[mac56]

36. Are you her cousin?

[The_Casual_Observer]

28. There are plenty of people with jobs

That don't provide healthcare and never will. Somehow that nitwit believes that healthcare coverage magically is granted to you if you have a job.
This is a very dangerous and naive person.

[procon]

32. Those working class poor pay taxes that funded her govt healthcare benefit, yeah?

Clueless ass.

How much money does does she think the government spends paying for expensive emergency care for all those uninsured, or providing them and their families aid and public assistance when they become too sick to work?

[rusty fender]

35. She's likely a

veteran of the beauty pageant network and answered the question in a way that would give her the most points from the judges.

Or she's quite young and hasn't experienced enough life to know everything about healthcare.

Or maybe she is a right winger.

[Orsino]

37. Works for a government regulatory agency, and she disses the unemployed?

Seems like a position she might soon regret.

[MountCleaners]

38. My sister was in a collision, and lost her job because of it.

The collision was not her fault, but it messed up her ankle so bad she has to have a second cartilage graft. She took so much time off for surgery, pain, and recovery that she got fired. None of this was her fault.

She is trying to get disability or work from home. Her back is so messed up that she can't sit in a chair all day. She did nothing to deserve this. I'd like Miss USA to explain how health care ought to be a "privilege" for someone who is unemployed and disabled and a victim.

[mnhtnbb]

39. Plenty of "smart" people have no empathy.

It makes it all about them--and their success--rather than about a human community.

[Dawson Leery]

40. If I ever had a daughter, she will NEVER be involved in this bullshit.

Most of these ding dongs are right wing morons from the heartland.
Too 1950's for me.

[bdamomma]

41. this comment definitely turned me off

health care is a right and not a privilege.

[hatrack]

42. Good thing Miss USA will never get old, or get sick, or lose her job, or have an accident, huh?

Clueless, pretty . . .

[Glimmer of Hope]

45. Let them die.