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By David Edwards
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:27 EST
Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) on Tuesday said that President Barack Obamas health care law should not force insurance companies to cover reproductive care for women because his wife was fixed.
Speaking at the Heritage Foundations Conservative Policy Summit, Roe told the crowd that he believed that the best way to provide insurance was through health savings accounts (HSA), and allowing people to buy high-deductible health plans (HDHP) across state lines.
Right now, the federal government tells you what you have to buy, he explained. Im going to be a little graphic here, okay? Let me tell you why thats important, why thats driven the cost up through the ceiling.
I have been fixed. My wife has been fixed, Roe said. Both of us have determined if we thought we had to raise another kid right now, we would jump off the Capitol, head first into the parking lot, face first. You got the idea, dont want any more kids.
Roe complained that Obamacare forced him to buy pediatric dental coverage, pediatric vision coverage, infertility coverage and female reproductive coverage.
Of which, I dont need any of, he noted. And those are the reason you buy, with a health savings account and a catastrophic policy, what you and your family need.
The slang term fixed is most often used in veterinary medicine to refer to a spayed female animal or neutered male animal.
In the end, Roe asserted that the only way to deal with the Affordable Care Act was with a nuclear bomb.
We have to get rid of this monstrosity and repeal it.
Watch this video from C-SPAN, broadcast Feb. 10, 2014.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/11/rep-phil-roe-obamacare-shouldnt-cover-pregnancies-because-my-wife-is-fixed/
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Skittles
(153,150 posts)who has NO IDEA how insurance actually WORKS
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)he speaks about her as if she was spayed . Whats with this "fixed" shit? She probably sat there smiling.
REP
(21,691 posts)Hell, I even say my cats had complete hysterectomies/orchidectomies or that, like me, they've been sterilized.
It's a thing that's okay for the sterilized person to say but wrong as fuck to say about another.
Oh, and this "fixed" person doesn't AT ALL mind helping out with others birth control, sterilizations, prenatal, labor & delivery and antenatal costs.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)I find myself typing that more and more, in relation to Republicans.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)Cha
(297,154 posts)like a real sweetheart. Not.
Poor mrs Roe.. but, at least she's "fixed".
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)breeding ability to the world. What a freaking pig.
ways on so many levels.
Do we even notice how far they go these days? I think I may be getting immune to nazis.