cathy mcmorris rodgers voted ACHA because it covers her son's pre-existing condition

[niyad]

Cathy McMorris Rodgers: My son has a preexisting condition. He’s 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 Kimmel’s emotional monologue this week about his son’s condition and his family’s 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 Cole’s future. Whether he’d have health care shouldn’t have had to be one of them. When you’re facing years of doctor’s appointments, you want to know that having a preexisting condition, such as an extra 21st chromosome or a heart defect, won’t 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 aren’t seeking to strip these protections – or anyone’s protections – away.

It’s 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.

. . . .

http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/may/04/cathy-mcmorris-rodgers-my-son-has-a-preexisting-co/

[brush]

1. I take it she's a repug? Can't find that in the story or caption. What's happened to journalism?

[HughBeaumont]

3. Rodgers is a pro-fracking fundie.

She also HAAAAAAAAAAAAATES the PPACA . . . almost desperately . . .

In March 2015, McMorris Rodgers posted a Facebook comment stating "this week marks the 5th anniversary of #Obamacare being signed into law. Whether it's turned your tax filing into a nightmare, you're facing skyrocketing premiums, or your employer has reduced your work hours, I want to hear about it."[49] Instead, she found her Facebook page almost exclusively filled with testimonials to the benefits of the Affordable Care Act.[50][51] Despite this, on March 28, 2015 McMorris Rodgers held a press conference about Obamacare in which she said nothing about the overwhelmingly positive comments she'd received from her constituents and instead rehashed five stories lifted from the House Republican leadership website that described problems with Obamacare.

[niyad]

4. oh, she is indeed. and a complete idiot. WA-5, I believe.

[Turbineguy]

2. Her child will not be affected.

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]

6. somehow, the idea of trading my friend's son with downs for hers does not seem fair.

[Turbineguy]

14. Think of it as sort of a

civil war with silencers. You don't hear the shooting, but people die in droves.

[niyad]

15. an excellent, and sadly accurate, image.

[Freethinker65]

10. Ha! Either that, she is illiterate, or she chose to remain ignorant on what she voted for

[samnsara]

5. shes a Repug....

....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]

7. NO the plan she voted for would NOT cover her baby...the plan she continues to have as a government

employee does...the OBAMACARE plan (aka ACA) does!

[niyad]

9. shhh, do not try to confuse this puke with FACTS

[theaocp]

24. I know you're being sarcastic, but

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.

[niyad]

34. exactly!

[okieinpain]

31. bingo. she lied right to everyones face she might

as well had sworn on her kids life that she was telling the truth.

[atreides1]

8. What a load of crap

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]

11. and that is on her good days. she has been investigated for ethis violations, etc.

[Vinca]

12. Apparently she hasn't read the bill.

[WinkyDink]

13. Pity the child, with a mother so ignorant.

[Blue_true]

16. Where does those people come from? What hard object did they hit their heads on? nt

[niyad]

17. I wish I knew. were they all dropped on their heads as infants? I am convinced that

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]

18. "I got mine" As long as she gets what she wants who cares what happens.

[COLGATE4]

19. Just the long way around of saying the typical

Rethug response to anything: "I've got mine - Fuck You".

[unblock]

20. "won't prevent you or your loved ones from **accessing** the care you need."

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]

21. Reframe: She voted to keep Obamacare for her son, who needs it. n/t

[SunSeeker]

22. She claims high risk pools work because they worked in Maine. She is dead wrong.

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]

23. She's a high ranking Republican lying to sell their UnCare plan. Purposefully deceiving her

constituency and the nation, as per usual for her.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

25. Because as a Congresswomen she's exempted from the bill

Plus Washington state is not one inclined to deny pre-existing conditions.

[PA Democrat]

26. Good luck when he is an adult dependent on the Medicaid program that your

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]

27. She's from Washington state, which is run by compassionate human beings

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]

28. My congressman linked this story on his facebook page after getting annihilated for

his vote on the AHCA. He got blasted again for this piece of pure propaganda. Poor thing can't catch a break.

[guillaumeb]

29. The GOP wrote an exception for themselves.

The only inspiration was catering to the ultra rich who own the GOP by giving out a huge tax break.

[putitinD]

30. if her baby dies, she can always blame it on Obama, in an alternative fact kind of way.

[niyad]

35. the baby is now ten years old

[Ilsa]

32. I hope the comments after the article corrected her gross misunderstanding and

that she finds out that if she loses her job next year, she'll need to figure out something else for her son.

[Justice]

33. She is not affected b/c Congresswoman and also because her husband is ex Navy -

She has two pockets of health care to protect her.

[Horse with no Name]

36. I think the karma is that she is misleading others to believe their children will

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.

[niyad]

37. almost want to buy tickets for that one!

[Horse with no Name]

38. Me too! n/t