U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador needs to have his mouth washed out with soap.
The Idaho Republican went home this week, stood before a town hall crowd, and said this in response to a statement from one of his constituents:
“Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.”
That was the wrong thing to say, young man.
The Lewiston, Idaho, crowd shouted him down. They hooted, hollered, hissed. Why? The answer is clear: They disagreed with Rep. Labrador’s silly assertion.
Of course people have died because they can’t get health care!
Rep. LabradorĀ had just voted for the Trumpcare proposal that repeals the Affordable Care Act and replaces it with the Republican-crafted alternative. It passed the House by the thinnest of margins, 217-213 and now heads to the Senate, where it’s likely to be torn up, tossed into the trash bin;Ā senators then will write their own version of health care overhaul.
Other lawmakers have gone home and they, too, will get a bellyful of bitching from their constituents over the vote that the House has just cast.
A word to the wise to the rest of them: Don’t repeat Raul Labrador’s silly comment.