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Lunabell

(5,919 posts)
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 04:54 PM Sep 2020

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis' office is forced to apologize after a staffer told a cancer survivor

Source: Businessinsider.com

"You don't get to have' healthcare if you can't afford it."



North Carolina resident Bev Veals recorded a phone call she had with a Tillis staffer, who compared health insurance to a "dress shirt" and said "if you can't afford it, you don't get to have it."
Tillis, who's facing a strong challenge in his bid for reelection this year, has voted several times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, without replacement legislation.
Millions of Americans have lost their employer-sponsored health insurance as a result of pandemic-related job losses.

Read more: https://www.businessinsider.com/video-gop-senators-office-apologizes-for-dismissal-of-cancer-survivor-2020-9

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Republican Sen. Thom Tillis' office is forced to apologize after a staffer told a cancer survivor (Original Post) Lunabell Sep 2020 OP
For being a total piece of shit? WVreaper Sep 2020 #1
This is the unvarnished truth. If you can't afford health care & you get cancer you die. KWR65 Sep 2020 #2
GOP: "But we don't WANT to 'provide it for everyone'!" Grokenstein Sep 2020 #3
Yes, we desperately need Medicare for All. area51 Sep 2020 #16
Flat tax? Is this the 1996 GOP primary? lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #18
Now, now, all you people bashing Thom, remember... CCExile Sep 2020 #4
So this is what a Bnanna Republic looks like. geretogo Sep 2020 #5
The republi-CON "answer" to your problems. calimary Sep 2020 #6
As a Democratic congressman said during the Obamacare debate... calclar Sep 2020 #7
He apologized because his staffer told the real policy. keithbvadu2 Sep 2020 #8
Alan Grayson was right. SamKnause Sep 2020 #9
And stay home to die. alphafemale Sep 2020 #11
Good one. SamKnause Sep 2020 #12
There is only one solution: vote his butt out. He's not appologizing for anything. marble falls Sep 2020 #10
Yeah, sorry for actually saying it. Chemisse Sep 2020 #13
Rethuglicans being Rethuglican paleotn Sep 2020 #14
People found out. So there is an apology rpannier Sep 2020 #15
Don't force him to resign... OldBaldy1701E Sep 2020 #17

KWR65

(1,098 posts)
2. This is the unvarnished truth. If you can't afford health care & you get cancer you die.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 05:02 PM
Sep 2020

This is why we need Medicare for All. A 5% flat tax will provide it for every one.

Grokenstein

(5,707 posts)
3. GOP: "But we don't WANT to 'provide it for everyone'!"
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 05:29 PM
Sep 2020

Control is the ultimate expression of power:

Losers & Suckers: "We need that."
GOP: "Beg us for it."
L&S: "Please, we beg you, we desperately need it to survive!"
GOP: "...NO!! FUCK YOU!! Ha ha ha! Now vote for us again in November or the terrorists win."
L&S: "...Okay."

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
18. Flat tax? Is this the 1996 GOP primary?
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 12:15 PM
Sep 2020

No thanks. Progressive taxation is the morally supportable way to do it.

CCExile

(456 posts)
4. Now, now, all you people bashing Thom, remember...
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 05:47 PM
Sep 2020

He just apologized for pretty much the GOP's biggest chunk of their platform!

calimary

(80,693 posts)
6. The republi-CON "answer" to your problems.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 06:11 PM
Sep 2020

YOUR MONEY is what talks. NOT you. And certainly not whatever predicament you're in, that needs some outside help or intervention from your elected representative.

That's the GOP way, folks. That's why they need to be DEFEATED. CRUSHINGLY DEFEATED.

calclar

(55 posts)
7. As a Democratic congressman said during the Obamacare debate...
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 06:20 PM
Sep 2020

...The Republican plan is simple.
1)Don't get sick
2)If you get sick, die quickly.

keithbvadu2

(36,360 posts)
8. He apologized because his staffer told the real policy.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 06:32 PM
Sep 2020

He apologized because his staffer told the real policy.

But did Tillis say he cared that people have no health coverage?

Does he have any intentions to help those people?

Or is the 'apology' the end of it?

SamKnause

(13,037 posts)
9. Alan Grayson was right.
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 06:33 PM
Sep 2020

The Republican health care plan:

1. Don't get sick.

2. If you do get sick, die quickly.

rpannier

(24,304 posts)
15. People found out. So there is an apology
Wed Sep 9, 2020, 08:42 PM
Sep 2020

IF no one knew, nothing would have happened
They would have just lied and said it wasn't true

OldBaldy1701E

(4,963 posts)
17. Don't force him to resign...
Thu Sep 10, 2020, 06:44 AM
Sep 2020

Force his weasely little ass out of office in disgrace. That is what needs to happen.

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