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Cathy McMorris Rodgers: My son has a preexisting condition. Hes one of the reasons I voted for the AHCA.
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Cathy McMorris Rodgers is seen May 14, 2007, holding her newborn baby, Cole, on his two-week birthday. The congresswoman wrote a column Thursday in the Washington Post about her son and the reasoning behind her health care vote. (COURTESY JILL STRAIT / Courtesy of Jill Strait)
Hearing late-night host Jimmy Kimmels emotional monologue this week about his sons condition and his familys experience in the moments after his birth, I had a flashback to the day my son was born and we learned he had Down syndrome.
My husband and I had a lot of questions about Coles future. Whether hed have health care shouldnt have had to be one of them. When youre facing years of doctors appointments, you want to know that having a preexisting condition, such as an extra 21st chromosome or a heart defect, wont prevent you or your loved ones from accessing the care you need.
Protections for children such as Cole Rodgers and Billy Kimmel have long existed, as they should. And despite what people are saying, House Republicans arent seeking to strip these protections or anyones protections away.
Its the people we love our children, friends and neighbors who are the inspiration behind our American Health Care Act, which we passed in the House on Thursday.
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http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/may/04/cathy-mcmorris-rodgers-my-son-has-a-preexisting-co/
brush
(53,467 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)niyad
(112,432 posts)Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)Congress will be using their own health plan.
On the other hand, your children dying would leave more for hers. So think of it as being patriotic.
niyad
(112,432 posts)Turbineguy
(37,206 posts)civil war with silencers. You don't hear the shooting, but people die in droves.
niyad
(112,432 posts)Freethinker65
(9,929 posts)samnsara
(17,570 posts)....from Washington State where the ACA has worked very well! so she's a lying sack of shit... Not all the GOP from Wash State voted for it btw....
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)employee does...the OBAMACARE plan (aka ACA) does!
niyad
(112,432 posts)theaocp
(4,223 posts)FUCK THAT NOISE. THIS HORRIFYINGLY INEPT WOMAN CAN SUCK ON A TAILPIPE. SHE IS EITHER STUPID OR LYING. I WISH HER NOTHING BUT THE WORST. FUCKING CHRIST.
okieinpain
(9,397 posts)as well had sworn on her kids life that she was telling the truth.
atreides1
(16,046 posts)She knows that she got an exemption, because she's a member of Congress...and even if she wasn't it's unlikely that the State of Washington will seek a waiver!
This woman is a liar and a hack!!!
niyad
(112,432 posts)Vinca
(50,168 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)niyad
(112,432 posts)the other beings in the universe are using this planet as a dumping ground or prison planet for their deplorables and undesirables and degenerates. they apparently figure we are not sufficiently advanced to notice.
The_Casual_Observer
(27,742 posts)COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Rethug response to anything: "I've got mine - Fuck You".
unblock
(51,974 posts)you won't get insurance to pay for it, but you'll have "access" to the care you need.
standard republican b.s. on this topic.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)SunSeeker
(51,367 posts)Maine instituted their high risk pool in 2011, and unlike the AHCA, funded it with a fee on all Mainers, healthy and sick, nonetheless it was already faltering and would have raised costs for sick people fivefold had the ACA not became effective in 2012. Maine was saved by the ACA coming into full force in 2012, dramatically expanding the number of insured people in Maine and further subsidizing Maine's high risk pool occupants.
This Maine high risk pool analogy is all the rage among Republicans trying to justify their AHCA vote and it is total bullshit. TPM has a good article explaining how the AHCA high risk pool provisions are nothing like the Maine "invisible" high risk pool under the ACA:
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/maine-high-risk-pools-are-freedom-caucus-solution-to-obamacare-repeal
suffragette
(12,232 posts)constituency and the nation, as per usual for her.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,063 posts)Plus Washington state is not one inclined to deny pre-existing conditions.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)cruel bill slashes. Unless she is fabulously wealthy, this asshole better look into what happens when her son is an adult and still needs medical care and services that Medicaid currently provides to adults with disabilities. Medicaid waiver programs help adults with disabilities to live in and participate in their local communities. Without this type of funding many families would be unable to care for their relatives with disabilities at home, resulting in institutionalization and isolation and sometimes homelessness.
This woman is sickeningly IGNORANT of the struggles of people with disabilities to lead a meaningful life with DIGNITY.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)So of course little Cole will continue to be covered, because Rodgers can be pretty confident that the decent people who govern Washington will not opt out of pre-existing condition coverage. I don't advise Rep. Sanctimonious move to Texas or Mississippi or Alabama or Idaho, though. Because the troglodyte Republicans who run those states will indeed strip those protections away from their citizens.
But since it will be state legislatures and governors consigning people to their early graves, Rep. Rodgers' conscience - small as it is - will remain clear.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)his vote on the AHCA. He got blasted again for this piece of pure propaganda. Poor thing can't catch a break.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)The only inspiration was catering to the ultra rich who own the GOP by giving out a huge tax break.
putitinD
(1,551 posts)niyad
(112,432 posts)Ilsa
(61,675 posts)that she finds out that if she loses her job next year, she'll need to figure out something else for her son.
Justice
(7,182 posts)She has two pockets of health care to protect her.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)be taken care of in the same circumstance.
Karma usually catches up sooner or later....and I certainly wouldn't put my child on the balance line when karma comes to collect.