GOP Senate Candidate Says Businesses Should Be Allowed To Deny Health Insurance To Cancer Patients By Scott Keyes on Jun 18, 2012 at 3:40 pm
Republican Senate nominee Richard Mourdock Richard Mourdock, the Tea Party favorite who ousted Sen. Dick Lugar (R-IN) in Indiana’s Republican Senate primary last month, told a local Indiana newspaper that, contra Obamacare’s protections, employers ought to be able to deny health insurance to people with cancer.
During a freewheeling interview with the News and Tribune, Mourdock said health care will be the “biggest issue” this election. The Indiana Republican, who opposes the Affordable Care Act, argued that businesses should be permitted to deny coverage to employees with cancer “if they want to keep their health care costs down.” “Does that employer have the right to do it?” Mourdock asked. “I would say yes they do”
From the interview:
Of particular interest to the candidate is a mandate that requires an employer to pay for certain services they may be morally opposed to — such as birth control — which Mourdock said he opposes.
Mourdock’s example was an employer who decided to cover everything but cancer.
“Does that employer have the right to do it? I would say yes they do if they want to keep their health care costs down but it also means it’s less likely you’re going to want to work here. If that employer wants to get the best employees coming in the door he’s going to offer the best insurance possible.”
Among Obamacare’s most popular provisions are protections for people who are sick or have pre-existing conditions to make sure they can’t be denied health insurance (beginning in 2014). In Mourdock’s America, businesses would continue to have the right to deny insurance for 1 in 7 Americans because of a pre-existing condition.
If Mourdock ultimately wins his election in November, don’t expect him to compromise on his opposition to businesses being required to insure cancer patients. The day after Mourdock won the Republican nomination, he announced on MSNBC that “bipartisanship ought to consist of Democrats coming to the Republican point of view.”
Perfect example of why America needs a Public Option. Another one of this critter's brain storms is to end Medicare.
Indiana Republican Senate candidate Richard Mourdock knows that the health care law is fundraising stink bait for his Tea Party base. Unfortunately, the state treasurer was unsure how he could use that and the impending Supreme Court decision on the law to raise some cash for his campaign.
But he had a solution. He and his campaign cut three different fundraising appeals and posted them all to YouTube. Unfortunately, the campaign also made them public. All of the videos confidently look into the future and announce three different results.
In one, the Supreme Court has done "what none of us expected." In another, it came down to "a split decision." In a third, it declared "Obamacare is in fact unconstitutional -- it's what many of us argued all along."
Mourdock's campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the three videos were quickly removed.
By Ian Millhiser and Travis Waldron on Oct 23, 2012 at 8:32 pm
GOP Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney & Senate Candidate Richard Mourdock NEW ALBANY, Indiana — At a debate this evening with his Democratic opponent Rep. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Indiana GOP Senate candidate Richard Mourdock claimed that raped women should be forced to carry their rapist’s baby to term because their forced pregnancy is a “gift from God”:
I believe life begins at conception. The only exception I have for to have an abortion is in the case of the life of the mother. I struggled with myself for a long time but I came to realize life is that gift from God, even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape. It is something that God intended to happen.
Watch it:
Throughout his campaign, Mourdock has left no doubt that he believes in a sacred right to life that begins at conception and ends at birth. Earlier this year, Mourdock mocked the very idea that Social Security and Medicare — programs that millions of seniors depend on to save their lives — are even constitutional.
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In his post-debate press conference, Mourdock repeatedly asserted that he believes “God creates life” but, seemingly contradicting his own remarks from the debate, said God does not “pre-ordain[] rape.”
“What I said was, in answering the question form my position of faith, I said I believe that God creates life. I believe that as wholly and as fully as I can believe it. That God creates life,” Mourdock said. “Are you trying to suggest that somehow I think that God pre-ordained rape? No, I don’t think that. That’s sick. Twisted. That’s not even close to what I said. What I said is that God creates life.”
Mourdock did, however, re-assert his belief that abortion should be illegal even for victims of rape and incest.
“I’ve said that consistently,” Mourdock said. “I’ve said that for a long, long time.”
Watch his post-debate comments:
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