Sheila Jackson Lee Blasts OMB Director for Diabetes-Shaming People

When you want a member of Congress to use a committee hearing to really hammer a point, Houston Democrat Representative Sheila Jackson Lee is the one to do it.

Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney appeared before the House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday to testify about President Donald Trump's 2018 budget proposal, which includes a bid to slash Medicaid funding — and Lee started asking some very direct questions.

See, earlier this month Mulvaney spoke at a conference at Stanford University and was asked whether he supports keeping a clause to ensure that people can't be denied health insurance because of pre-existing conditions.

Mulvaney said yes, but with conditions.

Specifically, he told the audience that while he is in favor of ensuring that people with pre-existing conditions can get health insurance, "that doesn't mean we should take care of the person who sits at home, eats poorly and gets diabetes."

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As someone who learned that they were diabetic about 20 years ago, ate reasonably well, and was always under my ideal weight by 20-35 pounds as a young adult my message to Mick Mulvaney is "go fuck yourself".