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 “shouldn’t” 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 you’re taking away that person’s right.”
You mean, like when you pass a tax cut to make billionaires happy and then the rest of us have to pay for it?
And this guy is Feingold’s replacement! I am so embarrassed for my home state!
Not to worry. If the good people who run exit polls are to be believed, your votes in Wisconsin were highjacked electronically. So, the problem isn’t the voters, it’s the vote-counting. If you figure out how to fix it please let me know, because we have the same problem in Georgia.