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

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Raw Story

Rep. Phil 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.”

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/02/11/rep-phil-roe-obamacare-shouldnt-cover-pregnancies-because-my-wife-is-fixed/

[Kelvin Mace]

1. I don't know about your wife,

but I only have to listen to you for thirty seconds to know that you have not been "fixed". In fact, you are a profoundly broken human being.

[CarrieLynne]

4. lol

[Scuba]

8. +1

[yesphan]

2. Ok, you're neutered

and the wife is spayed. This drives health care costs through the ceiling how ?
Oh, and by the way, thank you for not procreating.

[tanyev]

3. Did they get a two-for-one at the vet's office?

[lastlib]

21. The doc should've snipped his for free just for the laugh......

pity they couldn't restore circulation to his brain while they were doing the snipping.

[Left Coast2020]

42. Nice

[get the red out]

5. I am glad he has made his reproductive choice

He should not be entitled to make it for EVERYONE.

[Politicalboi]

6. Wasn't this the asshole who said just yesterday

For the GOP to use duct tape to keep them from saying stupid things.

[msanthrope]

7. Mrs. Roe must be so pleased.....nt

[tsuki]

9. Doesn't he love the fetus?

[jsr]

10. I swear GOP politicians with MD degrees are the most heartless SOBs on Earth.

[Scairp]

11. His wife is a cat?

[KamaAina]

15. Actually, I'm thinking she's probably a dog

[Left Coast2020]

43. So he's really Snort Mc Dork?

[hibbing]

12. sigh

Yeah, because all of the people that are uninsured just have this money laying around to start an HSA in the first place. Every day these idiots say things that are so stupid I think it can't get worse, then another one comes along and tops the previous idiocy.

If his wife could control her libido, she would not have to have been "fixed" in the first place right?

Peace

[Richardo]

13. Ladies and Gentlemen - Father of the Year

Can you imagine being one of his kids hearing him say that?

[Thor_MN]

25. His kids are probably selfish assholes too.

Nature or nurture, any spawn of his are going to be just as messed up.

[Richardo]

34. Good point.

[Mr.Bill]

14. When you meet someone who thinks they shouldn't pay for coverage

for a birth because they are a man or they are past childbearing age, ask them if they were ever involved in a birth. You know, such as their own.

[awoke_in_2003]

32. The longer I live, the more I think some were hatched...

like a bunch of reptiles.

[JDPriestly]

16. What will the Evangelical branch of the Republican Party think?

The command of God for many of them is to be fruitful and multiply.

Genesis 1:28

And God blessed them. And God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth.”

http://biblehub.com/genesis/1-28.htm

Never mind that the multiplication of human beings is killing the fish of the sea nd the birds of he heavens. Multiply is the command there.

Besides, what's with the language "getting fixed"? Sounds like a cat or dog.

Republicans never cease to amaze me. Where do they come from? Are they really human beings? Are we of the same species?

[onehandle]

17. Lady. Call a divorce lawyer.

Now. You got this.

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Phil, I bet she lied,

...but keeping you away would justify it.

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. My thought exactly...

Just the idea of sharing a bed with that guy is birth control.

[Solly Mack]

20. Damn

[renate]

22. I don't understand

Nobody needs insurance that covers pregnancy because Rep. Phil Roe doesn't want more kids? I don't get it. How do the life plans and wishes of Rep. Phil Roe prevent others from getting pregnant? Does he generate some kind of anti-pregnancy ray? Does it extend nationwide or does it just affect people living in his district? I would like to know more about this.

[lastlib]

23. Does the GOP have a stupid farm somewhere?

'Cause they seem to reap a bumper crop of stupid. Seesm like every election cycle, a turnip truck drives through and a Republican or two falls off...

[Left Coast2020]

44. Yes.

One in Arizona, and several in the South.

[NastyRiffraff]

24. The Republican mantra: "Me Me ME!"

"I should get everything I want, but if I don't need it, neither does anyone else. Even if they do, fuck 'em."

They all think that not only are they the most important people on earth, but they're the only important people.

[JRLeft]

25. Isn't he and his wife going against God?

[TBF]

27. I rather like the idea of him

Jumping off the Capitol, head first into the parking lot, face first. I think he should have stuck with that plan instead.

[heaven05]

28. what?

she was spayed??? Idiot. I'm really beginning to dislike these woman haters.

[jtuck004]

29. It would be SOOO cool if she fixed him while he slept tonight.

Fixed him good.

Happy Valentines Day, and thanks for all the fish...sweetie.

[NastyRiffraff]

30. Remember

Lorena Bobbitt?

[jtuck004]

36. That's sort of what I was thinking...he would be a better man, I think. n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

31. 5th rec for exposure...

"we would jump off the Capitol, head first into the parking lot, face first" and I would pay to see that, you ignorant asshat.

[voteearlyvoteoften]

33. He is 68 wife is close to 60

So I think it's highly unlikely they need to worry about unwanted pregnancy. Also why are they both fixed? One should do it. And he was an ObGyn for 30 years and he uses terms like fixed? WTF

[llmart]

37. That was my first thought.

Why would both of them have to be "fixed" unless one of them is "straying"?

Honestly, who in their right minds votes for idiots like this?

[Liberalynn]

40. So thankful he was never

my OBGYN.

[aquart]

35. Who paid for the fixes?

(And may I heartily applaud his decision.)

[MiniMe]

38. I'm sure that we the taxpayers did

And I have no problem with that.

[SunSeeker]

39. This idiot doesn't understand how insurance works.

If the insurance company can't spread the risk among people who would probably never need a lot of the procedures covered, the individual cost of comprehensive policies would be priced beyond the average American's ability to pay for them.

[mwooldri]

41. Fixed? Better check again.

I think he's still broken.

Insurance companies need to cover reproductive care. Irrespective of gender. EOM.

[Skittles]

45. when I have said, "He needs to be fixed", I was talking to my veterinarian

can't believe he'd refer to his wife and himself like that

[BlueMTexpat]

46. It's really too bad that he

didn't jump off the Capitol, head first, face first into the parking lot before he made this speech.

On second thought, maybe he did ....

[Doremus]

47. Cringing at the thought that this romeo needs to be fixed in the first place.

That's one mental image I could've done without.

[Sancho]

48. I hope the TV networks keep covering these idiots!

There's no substitute for how stupid these guys are...and every time they open their gap it gets worse. I guess that training on how to talk to women really paid off!