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Congressman announces cancer diagnosis months after characterizing illness as a personal failing
During a speech on the House floor on Wednesday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) announced that he has prostate cancer.
Dont ever, ever, take your health or family for granted. During the holidays, enjoy your family, because no one, no one, is promised tomorrow, Brooks said, adding that he learned he has cancer following a doctors scan in October.
Brooks announcement demonstrates the value of having health insurance, and the reality that everyone gets sick at one time or another. It also highlights the disconnect between his rhetoric about health care and peoples lived experience.
While Republicans were trying to repeal Obamacare in May, Brooks who introduced a one-sentence Obamacare repeal bill in March went on CNN and defended Republicans plan to allow insurance companies to discriminate against people who have preexisting conditions, which he characterized as personal failings.
My understanding is that (the new proposal) will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool, Brooks said in comments that generated swift backlash. That helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, theyre healthy, theyve done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people whove done things the right way that are seeing their costs skyrocketing.
But people who lead good lives get cancer too, and discovering and treating it can be exorbitantly expensive. Nonetheless, Republicans like Brooks who support legislation that would result in tens of millions of people losing coverage routinely characterize insurance as a luxury item that some people simply make the choice not to have, instead of a basic need.
https://thinkprogress.org/mo-brooks-cancer-health-care-comments-0d472b2bc9ef/?fbclid=IwAR35fzt9vpjCgs_4J4Qp15JbPzfzTHeIerCzhLOc8gRmmbGWVz3bE-ZiX7w
malaise
(268,968 posts)no prayers - I only wish he didn't have tax payer funded health care
demigoddess
(6,640 posts)certain age. I think we should elect people without prostates! then no prostate cancer to pay for.
rusty fender
(3,428 posts)Perseus
(4,341 posts)The thought is that the World will be better with more women leaders, and for the most part I believe that to be true, but then once in a while I see a picture of Betsy Devos and I come to the realization that every rule has its exceptions.
mountain grammy
(26,620 posts)Leghorn21
(13,524 posts)and I said, yeah, and she's just the one to do it, too!
Anyway, LEAD A BETTER LIFE, Brooks, and this shit wouldn't be happening to you...well, according to you, it wouldn't
(never too late to wake tf up, pal)
He needs a good hypocrite whipping, and shes the person that could blister his ass good.
LonePirate
(13,419 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)I was sorry to hear about your prostate cancer diagnosis. Since you are on record saying that people who have higher health care costs should contribute more to the insurance pool, I am confident that you will not be dunning taxpayers who have done things the right way to help pay for your treatment, correct? Perhaps next time, you will lead a good life so that you don't get cancer.
Love and kisses,
Yr friendly neighborhood gratuitous
superpatriotman
(6,247 posts)This puts a huge smile on my face.
librechik
(30,674 posts)it's a straight path to heaven, right?
Pompous Confederate rebels like this guy.are still traitors who want to disrupt the democracy of the US and revive slavery.
Why are we so intimidated by these freaks? They really just pretend they are powerful, and we are buying it.
0rganism
(23,944 posts)that is all
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Vinca
(50,269 posts)After all . . . he now has a pre-existing condition. What a personal failing!
safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)ooky
(8,922 posts)since he's such a big shill for them.
Scoopster
(423 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,490 posts)And, they continue to prove it over and over 'cause we've heard this bullshit before.
The issue with rethug thinking (?) is that many health problems come from work-related injury and stress, outright poverty, or are from a person's genetics - problems that don't fit into Mo's "life-style" equation.
KY.......
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)NotHardly
(1,062 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)one of the 2 or 3 barely civilized places in the entire god-forsaken state,
Here are his contact phones.
Call him and tell him,.. well tell him whatever you like, I will not print here what I am going to tell him.
Huntsville (256) 551-0190
D.C. (202) 225-4801
Decatur (256) 355-9400
Florence (256) 718-5155
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)There's your cure, fucker!