Republican: People Who Lead ‘Good Lives’ Don't Need Healthcare!
May 3, 2017
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as posted by the channelThe problem with unhealthy people is that they are all sinners who deserve to burn in hell! John Iadarola, Michael Tracey, and Michael A. Wood Jr., hosts of The Young Turks, discuss. Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
"A Republican congressman said Monday that an amendment to the GOP’s American Health Care Act would require sicker people to pay more in insurance costs than people “who lead good lives.”
In an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper Monday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) was asked about an amendment he supports to Republicans’ health care effort that would allow states to opt out of health- and age-based pricing protections required by Obamacare, if they established high-risk pools or other equivalent measures in their place.
Opponents of the amendment say it would lead to higher costs for sicker, older people. Brooks granted that.
“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 that helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they’re healthy, you know, they are doing the things to keep their bodies healthy,” he said. “And right now, those are the people who have done things the right way that are seeing their costs skyrocketing.”
A spokesperson for Brooks did not immediately respond to TPM’s questions about the remark.”*
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Hosts: John Iadarola, Michael Tracey, Michael A. Wood Jr.
Cast: John Iadarola, Michael Tracey, Michael A. Wood Jr.
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