GOP Rep. Says Those With Pre-Existing Conditions Don't Live Right

[Alt-Orange]

http://crooksandliars.com/2017/05/gop-rep-says-those-pre-existing-conditions

Today has been a day where Donald Trump, Sean Spicer, and every surrogate on the planet has an opinion on Trumpcare and pre-existing conditions.

Trump and Spicer just plan on lying to everyone. Rep. Mo Brooks, on the other hand, has a more nuanced and evil argument.

People with pre-existing conditions, you see, just haven't led good lives.

“My understanding is that it will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool,” Brooks said. “That helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they’re healthy, they’ve done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now those are the people—who’ve done things the right way—that are seeing their costs skyrocketing.”

[Warpy]

1. Gee, I wonder how I should have lived up to the age of 14

so that I wouldn't have gotten so damned sick with RA. Perhaps this fine specimen of perfect health can give me some clues as to what I did during my childhood to deserve a painful, debilitating, and often crippling disease.

[Rebl2]

11. Same here

I was 9 years old when I developed rheumatoid arthritis. So tell me how I was not "living right" as a nine year old. Tell me what about the 9 month old that develops cancer. How in their very short life were they not "living right". What a effing asshole this person is.

[SharonAnn]

17. Tell this to Jimmy Kimmel and his newborn son with a heart condition.

That child will have a "pre-existing" condition for life.

[Stuart G]

2. Mo Brooks..he is not very smart..

Mo is actually very slow...

Some pre existing conditions..have nothing to do with leading, "good lives" Many are just a matter of .."luck" nothing more, nothing less..............so....Fuck Slow Mo...

[More_Cowbell]

3. "done the things to keep their bodies healthy"

Like having parents who both made good livings (his were a high school teacher and an engineer), being able to get higher education, spending decades in high-paying government jobs. Those kind of "things."

[LakeArenal]

12. Living parents that had excellent health AND dental insurance. nt

Dental insurance that covered things.. Imagine that...

[Deb]

4. Is he suggesting the GOP took his heart?

obviously he hasn't any

[narnian60]

5. Too stupid for words.

[Freddie]

6. My late sis-in-law had heart damage

From childhood rheumatic fever. Guess she should have made better lifestyle choices when she was 7.
I wish all Republican would eat shit and die.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. My genetic condition that causes early blindness, intestinal bleeding, etc.

Was that my fault?

What's the excuse for his stupidity? Bad genes or bad lifestyle choices?

[ATL Ebony]

8. They should all have their insurance revoked and . . .

forced to take this "GREAT" plan they came up with for the constituents.

Dumb f**k, what about kids born with Down syndrome, Congenital heart disease, cerebral palsy, MMA, etc, etc, etc. what could they have done to avoid their catastrophe -- guess it's their fault for just laying around for 9 months, not enough exercise? Better question what about kids that develop health problems as a result of rolling back healthy school lunch rules (thanks rethugs).

[neeksgeek]

9. So that stroke I had when I was two weeks old.

It's my fault. I see.

Thanks for clearing that up.

[KT2000]

10. What a scam!

We need to throw all the environmental health research in his face. Toxic waste sites are placed in minority neighborhoods, 82,000 commercial chemicals have never even been tested for safety and what tests that have been done show health effects that include our most common health issues:
cardiovascular damage, brain damage, diabetes, insulin resistance, cancers, etc.

Corporations should be paying for everyone's health care.

[yellowcanine]

13. So what were childhood cancer survivors supposed to do?

I guess not be born in the first place?

[neeksgeek]

14. His number is 256-551-0190.

Call and tell him what you think. I did, had to leave a message. I feel better.

[SunSeeker]

15. Thank you.

[JudyM]

16. We need to quote this in pro-Dem ads, no question.

[Skittles]

18. what an asshole

even the people he judges as "not living right" very often have an addiction, which is INDEED a medical issue