As reported on the Addicting Info blog.
This may be the most offensive comment a Republican has made to date about Obamacare. Remember when Ann Coulter claimed Obamacare killed her friend and Politifact rated that as “Pants on Fire?” I think Politifact has another story to claim. This time, it isn’t from a brain-dead pundit. It’s from a brain-dead member of Congress.
Cynthia Lummis, a Republican from Wyoming who serves in the House of Representatives, claimed that her husband’s death could have been avoided had it not been for the glitches encountered on the Obamacare exchange website, healthcare.gov. Lummis claimed that even though her husband was enrolled for insurance in the D.C. health insurance exchange, they were not enrolled in Obamacare.
Addicting Info notes that Cynthia Lummis has somewhere between $20 Million and $75 Million in assets. She is one of the richest members of Congress.
She also back-peddled somewhat from her statement, noting that her husband refused the last test his physician recommended.
Addicting Info finishes (but you should read the whole article):
Obamacare wasn’t designed for people who have $20-$75 million. It was passed so the rest of us, who are either self-employed or have no access to insurance, can afford health care. It’s not the fault of the law that Lummis’s husband chose not to get a potentially life saving test – if he chose not to get the test.
Congratulations, GOP. You now have another desperate, health care-hating Republican, lying to the American people to drum up fear over the non-existent “death panels” your side keeps harping on and on about.