HEALTHCARE/POLITICS: “A Republican congressman has finally spoken the truth about the thinking behind the GOP’s latest health care plan.
Representative Mo Brooks of the 5th District of Alabama revealed on Monday that he had moved from no to yes on the proposed Republican health care plan. Brooks, who is taken seriously by some Republicans, explained his health care stance in a CNN interview with Jake Tapper.
Brooks declared, with a straight face, that he hopes that his more moderate Republican colleagues will start focusing ‘not just on the public policy aspects of this,’ but also on ‘pure politics and electability.’ There are ‘far more people,’ Brooks noted, who are struggling because of the increased costs of health care than there are people who ‘previously had no health care at all.’
Apparently unable to mutter the words ‘higher premiums for sick people,’ Brooks noted approvingly that the bill he supports ‘would allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool.’ “
-Philip Rotner, “A Congressman Accidentally Speaks The Truth About The GOP Health Plan,” The Huffington Post, May 2, 2017 9:06am