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
WVreaper
(618 posts)KWR65
(1,098 posts)This is why we need Medicare for All. A 5% flat tax will provide it for every one.
Grokenstein
(5,707 posts)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."
area51
(11,868 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)No thanks. Progressive taxation is the morally supportable way to do it.
CCExile
(456 posts)He just apologized for pretty much the GOP's biggest chunk of their platform!
geretogo
(1,281 posts)calimary
(80,693 posts)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)...The Republican plan is simple.
1)Don't get sick
2)If you get sick, die quickly.
keithbvadu2
(36,360 posts)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)The Republican health care plan:
1. Don't get sick.
2. If you do get sick, die quickly.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)No one wants to see that.
SamKnause
(13,037 posts)No one wants to see that.
marble falls
(56,353 posts)Chemisse
(30,793 posts)It's supposed to be unwritten and unspoken.
paleotn
(17,778 posts)Sometimes they don't qualify as being human.
rpannier
(24,304 posts)IF no one knew, nothing would have happened
They would have just lied and said it wasn't true
OldBaldy1701E
(4,963 posts)Force his weasely little ass out of office in disgrace. That is what needs to happen.