Have diabetes? Trump’s budget director says you brought it on yourself, so no health care for you – Daily Kos

Mick Mulvaney, now in charge of deciding who deserves health care.

The debate over Trumpcare has exposed Republican attitudes toward the people they represent more than any debate in recent memory. We've always known that they value some lives more than others, but they don't say it out loud very ofteninstead, it's dog-whistled most of the time. Now, though, when we're talking actual life and death formillions of people, they're unleashed.

First it was Rep. Mo Brooksof Alabamawith his comparison of"those people who lead good lives, they're healthy" and have pre-existing health conditions "through no fault of their own," versus the people who brought it on themselves and therefore don't deserve affordable insurance. Now it's popular vote loser Donald Trump's budget director, Mick Mulvaney, who is doling out health care on the basis of virtue.

"We have plenty of money to deal with that. We have plenty of money to provide that safety net so that if you get cancer you don't end up broke," Mulvaney said at the Leaders in Global Healthcare and Technology forum.

But then he drew a distinction between people like [Jimmy] Kimmel's son, born with a congenital heart disease, and people who end up with conditions like diabetes. "That doesn't mean we should take care of the person who sits at home, eats poorly and gets diabetes," Mulvaney said, according to a Washington Examiner account consistent with real-time social media reports. "Is that the same thing as Jimmy Kimmel's kid? I don't think that it is."

The American Diabetes Association would like Mulvaney to understand that lifeand diabetesdon't work that way.

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Have diabetes? Trump's budget director says you brought it on yourself, so no health care for you - Daily Kos