Congressman announces cancer diagnosis months after characterizing illness as a personal failing

[Demovictory9]

https://thinkprogress.org/mo-brooks-cancer-health-care-comments-0d472b2bc9ef/?fbclid=IwAR35fzt9vpjCgs_4J4Qp15JbPzfzTHeIerCzhLOc8gRmmbGWVz3bE-ZiX7w

During a speech on the House floor on Wednesday, Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) announced that he has prostate cancer.

“Don’t 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 doctor’s scan in October.

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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, they’re healthy, they’ve done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people — who’ve 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

[area51]

1. Will he learn anything from this?

Since he's a member of the republinazi party, I'm guessing the answer is no.

[bitterross]

8. A Republican, from AL no less. No learning.

Please, as if it's possible for those people to actually learn.

[SunSeeker]

2. Will his cancer make him more empathetic? I doubt it.

But I hope someone asks him why he didn't "lead a good life."

[demtenjeep]

3. they don't care until it happens to them///I really don't care do u?

womp womp womp

[Hekate]

4. I guess he now knows he's a Bad Person and God is punishing him.I hope he feels suitably horrible...

...because I am no longer very nice myself.

It won't occur to him to count his lucky stars that we, the taxpayers, are paying for his fcking insurance because he is a Congressman.

[DFW]

5. I wish his medical coverage would have a $174,000 deductible

THEN he might realize what he has been advocating all this time.

($174,000 is just about what a member of the House gets as an annual salary)

[sprinkleeninow]

6. "People who lead good lives..."

Yeah, Mr. Holier-Than-Thou. 😏

Must've lead less than a good life, huh?

[Mariana]

9. Oh, no! This is totally different.

When "those people" get sick, it's because they didn't live right, and brought it on themselves. When Rep. Brooks gets sick, it's just bad luck and not his fault at all. Doesn't that make perfect sense?

Sprinkleeninow

[sprinkleeninow]

14. Mariana

and 😍

When the anointed get sick, it's a 'trial'. Or tribulation. Or test. God allows it to happen. Not to worry, they'll be delivered.

When godless people get sick with an infirmity, it's due to them living a crap-filled life and them having brought it upon themselves, doncha know. Seeing you godless ones don't 'know' God, good luck with your malady.

Do I need this thingy?:

[smirkymonkey]

7. Too bad. So sad.

Hope he suffers miserably.

[dalton99a]

12. +1. I wish him a nice metastasis.

[safeinOhio]

10. Why Men Should Masturbate 21 Times A Month According To Science

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/masturbating-frequently-reduces-risk-of-prostate-cancer/

[dalton99a]

13. Like Scalise, he will use his taxpayer-funded healthcare to survive and do everything he can

to kill Americans by depriving them of their healthcare


Fuck him