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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAccording to Reich Wing Senator people with pre-existing conditions deserve
to pay more because they are like cars that have been in a crash.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/ron-johnson-people-with-preexisting-condition-dont-deserve-insurance-like-somebody-who-crashes-their-car/
snip:
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) suggested on Sunday that people with pre-existing conditions deserved to pay more for insurance because they were like cars that had been involved in an automobile accident.
None the Rethug's evil statements surprise me anymore.
SHRED
(28,136 posts)Don't you realize it's your child fault for being born with an expensive disease?
It's your fault for that car hitting you.
Matthew28
(1,796 posts)Very evil people...They of course hide behind religion but like the Taliban they're really snakes.
jehop61
(1,735 posts)always comes across as dumber than a box of rocks
emulatorloo
(44,062 posts)giving him too much credit LOL
emulatorloo
(44,062 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)Catmusicfan
(816 posts)pangaia
(24,324 posts)"Prior to his election to the Senate, he was chief executive officer of PACUR, LLC, a polyester and plastics manufacturer."
---And from INVESTOPEDIA-
---"With an estimated net worth of $36 million,
---Senator Ron Johnson is the seventh-wealthiest person in the U.S. Senate.
---the senator began employment as an accountant at PACUR, a Wisconsin-based polyester and plastics manufacturing company ----owned by his brother-in-law.
--- eventually became the company's Chief Executive Officer (CEO) by the mid-80s.
--- As at December 2014, he owned 5% of the company and earned a little more than $4.8 million from the business that year. His other assets include between $6.1 million to $27.3 million in money market accounts, and commercial property in Oshkosh, Wisconsin that is valued between $5 million to $25 million. :
0rganism
(23,924 posts)treat us like machinery, maybe we'll go away, right?
beep beep!
KingCharlemagne
(7,908 posts)Binkie The Clown
(7,911 posts)Like being born with a genetic disease.
Or allowing cancer to invade their body.
Or being born non-white.
Or being born gay.
Or being born to parents who are not fundamentalists.
Or being born somewhere other than 'Murika. (That's a big one, doncha know!)
The list goes on and on.
People just need to start making better choices.
toddwv
(2,830 posts)That person is a throwaway car, not someone's grandmother, son, or grandson.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Then he will learn how bad pre-existing conditions can be for a person.
Seems these shitbags have to go through it to understand it.
standingtall
(2,785 posts)because he will still be rich and will still have his Government insurance.