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Showing Original Post only (View all)Senator Says Employers Should Be Able To Deny Coverage To Cancer Patients [View all]
Source: ThinkProgress
WASHINGTON, D.C. Businesses should be allowed to deny health insurance to cancer patients, according to a Republican senator, because our nation was based on the foundation of freedom and limited government.
Discussing health care outside the Supreme Court today, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) told ThinkProgress that there shouldnt be a law requiring businesses to cover employees who have cancer because that would create an obligation for others. When you create a right for somebody, Johnson said, you create an obligation for somebody else, and then youre taking away that persons right.
KEYES: I know Richard Murdock had said even though businesses should give people, for instance, with cancer, health coverage, they shouldnt be legally required by the federal government.
JOHNSON: They shouldnt. Listen, our rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And when we start expanding beyond that realm, when you create a right for somebody, you create an obligation for somebody else, and then youre taking away that persons right. And that maybe doesnt seem all that great, but its just true. Our nation was based on the foundation of freedom and limited government.
JOHNSON: They shouldnt. Listen, our rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And when we start expanding beyond that realm, when you create a right for somebody, you create an obligation for somebody else, and then youre taking away that persons right. And that maybe doesnt seem all that great, but its just true. Our nation was based on the foundation of freedom and limited government.
Read more: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/06/28/508299/ron-johnson-cancer-patients/
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Senator Says Employers Should Be Able To Deny Coverage To Cancer Patients [View all]
Galraedia
Jun 2012
OP
Hey A-hole, the fascists you support "created the obligation" for others to get cancer
Dont call me Shirley
Jun 2012
#2
Our nation was based on the foundation of slavery and woman not owning property so...
TeamPooka
Jun 2012
#5
Wisconsin: the state that gave us Joe McCarthy (but also, weirdly enough,
coalition_unwilling
Jun 2012
#7
And Robert M. LaFollette. And a lot of other good ones. To think there are too many voters in
libinnyandia
Jun 2012
#15
Walker is the Koch's spear head to break the unions. They'll flood him with campaign cash.
xtraxritical
Jun 2012
#22
This, plus Hillary and that turd Panetta in another thread laughing at the Pakistanis....
truth2power
Jun 2012
#12
That's exactly what I'm asking. Why do we have to pay for their sweet insurance?
IndyJones
Jun 2012
#47
These are the same people who say it's peachy keen to execute some innocents just as...
Tikki
Jun 2012
#16
Ron Paul has the crazies all ginned up and voting for anyone who don't like gubment. It's
Ed Suspicious
Jun 2012
#17
Yeah, too bad the completely constitutional insurance reform bars discrimination. nt
Deep13
Jun 2012
#29
He probably will. 50% of men get some form of cancer at some point in their life.
SunSeeker
Jun 2012
#45
How many ways can you say that Senator Johnson statement is a EPIC FAILURE....
LovingA2andMI
Jun 2012
#42
Article says his brother from another mother (not necessarily human) Richard Mourdock agrees.
Judi Lynn
Jun 2012
#46
The scumbags feel the same way about solders coming home from illegal wars...
santamargarita
Jun 2012
#48
Taxpayers should be allowed to deny the health care benefit for asses like him. nt
mother earth
Jun 2012
#52
so I guess businesses now have the right to dump toxins in the rivers & streams again?
wordpix
Jun 2012
#54
Then why even have an insurance industy? Let's eliminate all car, home, death,
sinkingfeeling
Jun 2012
#56