The 2017 Republican Controlled U.S. Congress

‘Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care’

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Rep. Raul Labrador (R-Idaho) was drowned out by constituents’ booing at a town hall in Lewiston, Idaho on Friday after saying that lacking access to health care never caused anyone to die.
Labrador made the statement in response to a question from a woman in the audience, who said that taking health care away from people on Medicaid was tantamount to asking them to die.

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That line is so indefensible, Labrador said. Nobody dies because they don’t have access to health care.

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On Saturday, Labrador posted a statement on the exchange, saying that his response wasn’t very elegant and criticizing the media coverage.

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So, the other shoe has dropped....Does anyone want to bet where they (the GOP controlled Congress) plan to get the money to pay for this?The next thing I expect to hear from Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell is the need to get rid of "welfare" like Social Security and Medicare. Put those lazy old people back to work, work or starve......

My head spins every time I hear how many billions of dollars are supposedly ear-marked for various programs in the budget that was just passed and signed.It occurs to me that this is mostly going to be burrowed money, considering Trump's tax cut for the rich. I understand that China seems to be the largest contributor of the funds that the U.S. government spends to fund the military and all the other programs.Cool, China is paying for our military, and when you look at Trump's record for paying debtors, what should we expect? Maybe they will pay for the wall too.