{"id":21519,"date":"2017-05-06T21:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21519"},"modified":"2017-05-06T21:56:10","modified_gmt":"2017-05-06T21:56:10","slug":"nobody-dies-because-they-lack-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21519","title":{"rendered":"‘Nobody dies’ because they lack health care?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. Rep. Raul Labrador needs to have his mouth washed out with soap.<\/p>\n

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:<\/p>\n

“Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.”<\/em><\/p>\n

That was the wrong thing to say, young man.<\/p>\n

The Lewiston, Idaho, crowd shouted him down. They hooted, hollered, hissed. Why? The answer is clear: They disagreed with Rep. Labrador’s silly assertion.<\/p>\n

Of course<\/em> people have died because they can’t get health care!<\/p>\n

Rep. Labrador\u00a0had 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;\u00a0senators then will write their own version of health care overhaul.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

A word to the wise to the rest of them: Don’t repeat Raul Labrador’s silly comment.<\/p>\n\n

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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 … Continue reading ‘Nobody dies’ because they lack health care?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[164,1941,7001],"class_list":["post-21519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","tag-affordable-care-act","tag-gop","tag-trumpcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21520,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21519\/revisions\/21520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}