Meet The Republican Lawmaker Who Opposed Chemotherapy Treatment Coverage Until SHE Got Cancer

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2:35 PM - 27 Mar 2014

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[warrior1]

1. Isn't that they way it always is with republicans?

I hope she's ok.

[truebrit71]

2. Senator Portman of Ohio was anti-gay until his son came out...

...how's that saying go, 'all politics is local'?

[thucythucy]

20. "The personal is political."

A feminist slogan that works in all sorts of contexts.

[truebrit71]

22. Indeed...

[Arkansas Granny]

3. I believe that is called hypocrisy.

[Tsiyu]

4. Typical republican scumbag

I'd say karma paid her a wakeup call.

Would that this would happen to each and every Republican scumbag.

It's the only damn thing that seems to make them reveal they actually do have hearts and feelings - THEIR OWN SUFFERING.

May Karma make all the hard-hearted Repukes suffer as she did.

Hate to say it, but NOTHING else is working.....

[Brigid]

7. Unfortunately, that seems to be true.

[Dawgs]

10. Yep. 100% agree here.

[Rex]

16. It is their apparent lack of the empathy gene.

They have to be directly impacted, before actually having sympathetic feelings.

[napkinz]

18. some don't get that "wakeup call" ... remember this one --->

Josh Miller, Asshole of the Day for March 1, 2014

When it comes to government benefits, while not everyone can agree on when government should help people, we do expect that those who have been helped by government in their time of need will support it for others when they need it. Or at least they will support the program for others while they themselves are actively drawing from it.

But Arkansas Rep. Josh Miller. He opposes benefits for others that he himself currently gets:

More than a decade ago, Arkansas Rep. Josh Miller (R) was in a catastrophic car accident that broke his neck and left him paralyzed. Medicare and Medicaid paid the $1 million bill for his hospitalization and rehabilitation.

But this week, as the Arkansas legislature has debated continuing its privatized Medicaid expansion under Obamacare, Miller has remained steadfast in his opposition. The Arkansas Times highlighted the contrast in a Thursday report. The alternative newspaper reported that Miller receives ongoing coverage through the government programs, including Medicaid-covered personal care assistance.

The Times asked Miller, 33, about this apparent contradiction: Shouldn’t someone who has experienced the benefits of health insurance, including insurance paid for by the government, understand the importance of expanding those benefits to others?

read more: http://assholeoftheday.us/post/78257560257/josh-miller-asshole-of-the-day-for-march-1-2014

[Tsiyu]

30. what a narcissistic ass

The IGMFU syndrome

[roguevalley]

31. its even worse with him if I remember correctly. Not only is he against it for others

he had a bill passed that allowed him to carry on without interruption over a technicality.

[NV Whino]

5. Ain't karma a bitch.

[rhett o rick]

17. No it aint. Karma has nothing to do with revenge or retribution.

"kar•ma (kärˈmə
n. Hinduism & Buddhism The total effect of a person's actions and conduct during the successive phases of the person's existence, regarded as determining the person's destiny."

If her overall conduct during her lifetime is negative she will be lower on the cycle of life when she is reborn.

Karma always seems to get a bad rap.

[NV Whino]

26. I stand corrected

May she return as a snake. Oh wait, she's already there.

[rhett o rick]

27. I was thinking cockroach. nm

[NV Whino]

28. Hmm, you might be right.

[Berlum]

6. Repbulicon hypocrisy is LEGION

I hope she will get help and get well, bless her, but her classique Republicon hypocrisy stinks to High Heavens.

[politicaljunkie41910]

8. Perhaps her previous cancer affected her brain. Jeeeeze!!!!

What's worse is that her line of thinking pits one group of cancer patients against another. She doesn't say why she was willing to discriminate against one group of cancer patients (those using the Pill form) over another (those who take intravenous treatment):

Czaja and other members of the Assembly early Friday passed an amended version of a Senate bill that aims to make cancer treatment more affordable by requiring insurance companies to cover chemotherapy pills in the same way they do intravenous treatments

“I’m not a big mandate person,” said Czaja, who spent the bulk of her career in the insurance industry. “After a long conversation with my doctor, I started to think about the issue in a new way. It’s not just the affordability factor; it’s about helping people get back to normal and get back to work.”

I guess it's the work factor. Can't have those freeloading cancer patients out there not working.

I'm sorry but her come to Jesus moment is too little too late for me. How many people suffered the inconvenience while she was making up her mind which way the wind blew?

[ellie]

9. These people are awful.

[toddwv]

11. I hope she gets the care that she needs.

It sounds like she has been through a lot.

However, it sounds like she is your typical right-wing "conservative" and lacks empathy... right up to the point where she is affected.

[FiveGoodMen]

12. Then I'm glad she got cancer

Yup. You heard me.

[leftynyc]

13. Don't let her do that to you

You will come to regret losing some of your humanity because of this shell of a woman.

[closeupready]

14. It's tempting to revel in a bit of schadenfreude, but not when

lives are on the line, so I hope she gets the care she needs, and that going forward, she is a bit more humble in her work in the legislature.

If it turns out she goes back to her selfish ways, then I see no reason her opponents couldn't reasonably say, "you were against expansion of coverage before you got cancer, then you were for it. Now you're telling us, you're against expansion of other kinds of coverage. Is that because you haven't been stricken with those illnesses, either?"

[AlinPA]

34. She is a slimy, hypocritical republican and humility is not something I'd expect from her.

[Thinkingabout]

15. I would like to think there would be compassionate people making laws which affect

Others and do so without being required to go through a similar experience. Life threatening health .problems happens to people of different views but thank goodness for Democrats like PResident Obama who cared enough to work for affordable insurance.

[Jim Lane]

19. Aside from her hypocrisy, I learned something about breast cancer.

Per the linked article, she'd had a double mastectomy ten years ago, after pre-cancerous cells were detected in her left breast. (She also had a family history of breast cancer.)

She's now been diagnosed with metastatic cancer -- the cancer cells had spread to other parts of her body. It turns out that a double mastectomy doesn't completely prevent breast cancer; it cuts the rate by 95% but that still leaves a few people in her unfortunate situation.

As for what happens to her, I stand with most of the responses in this thread, who refuse to rejoice in her illness. It isn't a matter of politics. Cancer doesn't discriminate among her, Elizabeth Edwards, Robert Novak, Ted Kennedy, Ari Fleischer, yours truly, and many others of all political orientations. As Gilda Radner said, we're all members of the same club.

[fascisthunter]

21. Being Self-Centered Can Make People Very Short-Sighted

[LeftishBrit]

23. At least she did learn from her own experience.

Pity some people only learn the hard way - but at least it's a step above the likes of Sarah Palin, who had a son in Iraq and STILL didn't seem concerned about the war; a pregnant teenage daughter and STILL supported the religious right; a disabled infant and STILL supported welfare cuts. Or our David Cameron, who is prepared to cut benefits for disabled people, and semi-privatize the NHS, despite the fact that he had a very severely disabled child, who was helped by the NHS during his tragically short life.

[City Lights]

24. Sadly, that's the ONLY way some will learn.

The self-centered jerks only "get it" after it happens to them.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

25. "... it’s about helping people get back to normal and get back to work.”

Wasn't that what it should have ALWAYS been about, you stupid republifuck? Ohhhhh, but now that your dumb ass has cancer, it's about helping the people all of a sudden???

I really do hope you recover, though I'm not particularly fond of stupid republifucks. Hopefully you'll learn something that would normally have been beyond your mental capicity.

[Cha]

29. Damn, girl

[napkinz]

32. kick

nt

[AlinPA]

33. Typical slimy, hypocritical republican.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

35. What scares me is the ones that cut off their nose to spite their face. In other words...

those who continue to support things that are destroying their lives while their lives are being destroyed.

[CJCRANE]

36. "What you do to the least of these, you do to me".

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you".

"There, but for the grave of God, go I".