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Skidmore

(37,364 posts)
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:37 PM Jun 2014

North Carolina: Congressman Demands Pregnant Woman Explain Why Obamacare Includes Maternity Coverag


Wish I were making this up, but here goes:



http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/06/19/3450957/congressman-maternity-coverage-hearing/

Congressman Demands Pregnant Woman Explain Why Obamacare Includes Maternity Coverage

BY TARA CULP-RESSLER JUNE 19, 2014 AT 1:18 PM UPDATED: JUNE 19, 2014 AT 2:35 PM

A lawmaker from North Carolina spent several minutes badgering a pregnant doctor about why Obamacare requires plans to cover maternity services, telling her it’s a service that people like him will never use, during a House committee hearing this week.

Dr. Mandy Cohen, who works for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services and is due to give birth in about three weeks, appeared before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee on Wednesday to testify about Obamacare’s impact on the insurance market. The hearing was entitled “Poised To Profit: How Obamacare helps insurance companies even if it fails patients,” so it’s a safe assumption that Cohen was up before a tough crowd.

During Cohen’s testimony, Rep. Mark Meadows (R) demanded to know why Americans are forced to buy coverage for services that don’t apply to them. He pointed out that he and his wife are in their 50s and don’t plan on using maternity coverage anytime soon. The doctor attempted to explain that maternity care is one of the ten essential health benefits that Obamacare requires new plans to include, but Meadows wasn’t convinced:

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North Carolina: Congressman Demands Pregnant Woman Explain Why Obamacare Includes Maternity Coverag (Original Post) Skidmore Jun 2014 OP
First they don't want to cover birth control liberal N proud Jun 2014 #1
It also covers your boner-in-a-bottle, Mr. Meadows gratuitous Jun 2014 #2
And I'm sure the Doctor isn't going to get prostate cancer, either theHandpuppet Jun 2014 #20
If you were born, Mr. Meadows Aerows Jun 2014 #3
Does Rep. Mark Meadows (R) understand that he wasn't HATCHED? MADem Jun 2014 #4
Slime molds reproduce by spores. hobbit709 Jun 2014 #14
Obviously you have never watched his birth whistler162 Jun 2014 #15
Ha! Bet "Smell-a-Vision" would add lots to that scene! MADem Jun 2014 #16
sad to say, that baloney flies here too. bettyellen Jun 2014 #5
Every single person on this forum Aerows Jun 2014 #7
its mysogyny.....i also will never need his Viagra...why should I have to pay for that? VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #6
I assume cancer treatment is covered; hopefull we won't have to use it, but happy to have it. lumpy Jun 2014 #9
me too VanillaRhapsody Jun 2014 #10
Our bodies are sinks of iniquity that sap a man's masculine strength! Warpy Jun 2014 #8
The stupid people also do not understand how insurance works. Kick this man in the nuts, then women Fred Sanders Jun 2014 #11
Will somebody please explain to the idiot from North Carolina how insurnace works? MiniMe Jun 2014 #12
If only there was a cure for being a blogslut Jun 2014 #13
For every woman becoming a mother ... Bad Thoughts Jun 2014 #17
Because insurers can't charge more for any preexisting condition, pnwmom Jun 2014 #18
Well-phrased, pnwmom! nt Hekate Jun 2014 #19
Should have responded- Sounds like you don't give a damn about the unborn n/t n2doc Jun 2014 #21
Whenever I see this from younger male Republicans IronLionZion Jun 2014 #22

liberal N proud

(60,334 posts)
1. First they don't want to cover birth control
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:38 PM
Jun 2014

Now they don't want to cover the side effect of not using birth control.



gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
2. It also covers your boner-in-a-bottle, Mr. Meadows
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:41 PM
Jun 2014

And I can't believe there is a statistically significant portion of the populace that would derive any benefit at all from that.

What. A. Meathead.

theHandpuppet

(19,964 posts)
20. And I'm sure the Doctor isn't going to get prostate cancer, either
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:14 AM
Jun 2014

Maybe that should be excluded from coverage, too, since this doesn't effect women. I'm an older woman and childless -- should I have to pay insurance for others' kids? I mean, the list is endless. We all pay so that all may benefit. That's what it's all about.

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
3. If you were born, Mr. Meadows
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:43 PM
Jun 2014

instead of hatched or slithered out from under a rock, thank the maternity care your mother received. If you did hatch or slither out from under a rock, feel free to slither right back under it and shut up.

MADem

(135,425 posts)
4. Does Rep. Mark Meadows (R) understand that he wasn't HATCHED?
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:44 PM
Jun 2014

EVERYONE gets here as a consequence of pregnancy.


Or maybe he WAS hatched...the idiot.

lumpy

(13,704 posts)
9. I assume cancer treatment is covered; hopefull we won't have to use it, but happy to have it.
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:13 PM
Jun 2014

God I'm glad I live in the state I live in.

Warpy

(111,245 posts)
8. Our bodies are sinks of iniquity that sap a man's masculine strength!
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 03:54 PM
Jun 2014

Cover the product? Hell no, brats are our punishment--the bible says so--and we should deliver in filth, all by ourselves.

Take it all the way, few 20 year olds have heart attacks, gallstones, or any of the other problems associated with age. His coverage for those and other conditions should be yanked just for that reason.

They aren't growing them any smarter since I left NC. I didn't think they would, it's why I left.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
11. The stupid people also do not understand how insurance works. Kick this man in the nuts, then women
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 05:16 PM
Jun 2014

can ask why nuts injury is covered by Obamacare, but women have to pay for that?

MiniMe

(21,714 posts)
12. Will somebody please explain to the idiot from North Carolina how insurnace works?
Thu Jun 19, 2014, 06:48 PM
Jun 2014

I have never had a fire in my house, but I sure as hell am insured against fire. And apparently the troglodyte has never heard of "change of life" babies. You can indeed have a baby at that age, though it is unlikely, it happens.

Bad Thoughts

(2,522 posts)
17. For every woman becoming a mother ...
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:50 AM
Jun 2014

... there is a man becoming a father. I figure the health costs balance out.

OTOH, there is no coverage from dickhead congressmen.

pnwmom

(108,976 posts)
18. Because insurers can't charge more for any preexisting condition,
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 04:55 AM
Jun 2014

including genetic conditions, including possessing XX chromosomes: which makes one susceptible to foreign bodies growing inside an organ.

There is nothing about pregnancy that makes it an exceptional medical condition.

IronLionZion

(45,427 posts)
22. Whenever I see this from younger male Republicans
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 09:22 AM
Jun 2014

I tell them how its astonishing how many young male Repubs know for sure they will never have a girlfriend or wife or any daughters and must die alone. Then I tell them maternity coverage isn't used by many gay couples. They usually start sputtering and get pissed off and call me a socialist. They get really mad when I remind them that Dems have been getting more votes from women.



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