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A three-time cancer survivor who reached out to U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis for help with her health insurance dilemma said that she got an insensitive response from a staffer instead.
During Veals' calls, she came across a Washington, D.C., staffer for Tillis. Frustrated by his lack of empathy, she started recording her calls.
"You’re saying that, if you can’t afford it, you don’t get to have it, and that includes health care?" she asked.
"Yeah, just like if I want to go to the store and buy a new dress shirt. If I can’t afford that dress shirt, I don’t get to get it," he replied.
"But health care is something that people need, especially if they have cancer," Veals said.
"Well, you got to find a way to get it," he responded.
When she asked the staffer what she's supposed to do, he said, "Sounds like something you’re going to have to figure it out."
Wasn't voting for him. Cunningham has much more appeal. I dont think Tillis is a bad guy but he definitely became part of Team Trump.The reason the GOP's opposition to the Affordable Care Act and their quest to bring back pre-existing conditions is an electoral liability for the second cycle in a row? Because their alternative is wildly unpopular.
Cancer survivor pleading for help with health insurance 'angry and hurt' over Tillis staffer's response
Hard to see why Tillis is losing and North Carolina is in play.
The GOP health plan has long been "poor people can just die".
The reason the GOP's opposition to the Affordable Care Act and their quest to bring back pre-existing conditions is an electoral liability for the second cycle in a row? Because their alternative is wildly unpopular.
Cancer survivor pleading for help with health insurance 'angry and hurt' over Tillis staffer's response
Hard to see why Tillis is losing and North Carolina is in play.
We had a representative in florida several years back who stood on the floor of the house and told us then, the republican healthcare plan is this, if you get really sick, die fast.
I think it's apparent that plan is still in effect.
The reason the GOP's opposition to the Affordable Care Act and their quest to bring back pre-existing conditions is an electoral liability for the second cycle in a row? Because their alternative is wildly unpopular.
Cancer survivor pleading for help with health insurance 'angry and hurt' over Tillis staffer's response
Hard to see why Tillis is losing and North Carolina is in play.
Sounds like a dumb a** staffer who ought to see some consequences for their stupidity. Some of these people fail to realize they are public servants and in government to aid the people. We all know we have bad folks in every field and people sometimes are just having a really bad day that they carry to work with them. A staffer doesn't make decisions about health care, the Congressman or woman he works for does. Tillis apologized and hopefully the staffer was reprimanded. If you think this type of occurrence is restricted to Republicans it's not.
That was Alan Grayson, wasn't it?
He was right as it turns out.
Sounds like a dumb a** staffer who ought to see some consequences for their stupidity. Some of these people fail to realize they are public servants and in government to aid the people. We all know we have bad folks in every field and people sometimes are just having a really bad day that they carry to work with them. A staffer doesn't make decisions about health care, the Congressman or woman he works for does. Tillis apologized and hopefully the staffer was reprimanded. If you think this type of occurrence is restricted to Republicans it's not.
When Tillis was speaker of the House, Republicans passed a bill in 2013 prohibiting Medicaid expansion without action by the lawmakers. It also stopped the state from running its own health benefit exchange. Tillis has taken credit for being the one to stop Medicaid expansion in the state, both at the time and more recently.
Tillis has voted several times in the Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act, saying he would vote to get rid of it “every time it comes to the floor.”
It's far better to not have a GOP health plan, because it's going to boil down to **** you.
Why not just force the hospital to provide free medical care, instead of going through the idiotic charade of giving an "insurance" policy to someone who is already sick?
The same reason that we do not force the stores to give out "free" groceries, shirts, phones or any other goods/services which folks lack "access to" for financial reasons.
The GOP health plan has long been "poor people can just die".
But we're doing it already when we force a health insurance company to give an "insurance" policy to someone who is already sick. No insurance company would give a health insurance policy to someone who is already sick unless they were forced to by law. So why not cut out the middleman the way we do with the EMTALA?
If insurance premiums are no longer based on actuarial risk factors (aka pre-existing conditions) then it is no longer insurance.
Cal Cunningham. I'm voting for him.My mother died in 1994 after a long and painful battle with cancer. Luckily we, her children, were able to get her the very best care imaginable. We had the resources and money to do it.
I would like to smash in the face of Tillis's staffer.
Now I'm about to make a donation to Tillis's opponent.
Cal Cunningham. I'm voting for him.
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That's my point. It's a charade, so why do it? People who want health insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions want this charade, and I'm trying to figure out why.
What difference does is make if you force insurance companies to eat the cost (which gets passed onto the rest of us in the form of higher premiums) or if you force providers to simply treat these people directly and eat the cost (which, again, gets passed onto the rest of us in the form of higher prices)?
In other words, insurance companies serve no purpose here because it's not insurance - as you have already acknowledged.
The GOP health plan has long been "poor people can just die".
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