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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 09:22 PM Feb 2014

Rep. Roe: Obamacare shouldn’t cover pregnancies because my wife is ‘fixed’

By David Edwards
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:27 EST

Rep. Phil Roe (R-TN) on Tuesday said that President Barack Obama’s health care law should not force insurance companies to cover reproductive care for women because his wife was “fixed.”

Speaking at the Heritage Foundation’s 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 plan’s (HDHP) across state lines.

“Right now, the federal government tells you what you have to buy,” he explained. “I’m going to be a little graphic here, okay? Let me tell you why that’s important, why that’s 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, don’t 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 don’t 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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Rep. Roe: Obamacare shouldn’t cover pregnancies because my wife is ‘fixed’ (Original Post) DonViejo Feb 2014 OP
another conservative asshole Skittles Feb 2014 #1
Wtf???!! SummerSnow Feb 2014 #2
Well, i do consider *myself* "fixed" but don't use that for other women REP Feb 2014 #4
I totally agree with you. SummerSnow Feb 2014 #5
What a piece of shit shenmue Feb 2014 #3
Wow! Teh Stupid burns. madinmaryland Feb 2014 #6
Roe.. how ironic.. sounds Cha Feb 2014 #7
I wonder how Mrs Roe feels about her husband publicly announcing her DonViejo Feb 2014 #8
In so many Cha Feb 2014 #10
Forget the DU Valentines, let's donate to have Rep Roe fixed. edbermac Feb 2014 #9
.. Cha Feb 2014 #11

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)
2. Wtf???!!
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 09:33 PM
Feb 2014

he speaks about her as if she was spayed . Whats with this "fixed" shit? She probably sat there smiling.

REP

(21,691 posts)
4. Well, i do consider *myself* "fixed" but don't use that for other women
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 09:45 PM
Feb 2014

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.

Cha

(297,154 posts)
7. Roe.. how ironic.. sounds
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 10:35 PM
Feb 2014

like a real sweetheart. Not.

Poor mrs Roe.. but, at least she's "fixed".

DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
8. I wonder how Mrs Roe feels about her husband publicly announcing her
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 10:40 PM
Feb 2014

breeding ability to the world. What a freaking pig.

Cha

(297,154 posts)
10. In so many
Tue Feb 11, 2014, 11:42 PM
Feb 2014

ways on so many levels.

Do we even notice how far they go these days? I think I may be getting immune to nazis.

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