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February 09, 2011 07:19 PM UTC

On Radio, Brophy says it's almost political suicide to vote against "touchy-feely mandates"

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  • by: Jason Salzman

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A month ago, on KNUS Backbone radio, State Sen. Greg Brophy said that when it comes to health care legislation, it’s “almost committing political suicide to vote against any of these touchy-feely mandates.”

He was referring to a bill that directed Colorado insurance companies to provide coverage for maternity care, for having babies. That’s about as touchy feely as it gets, in a good and bad way.

Brophy, a Republican from Wray, went on to call it “gutter politics” when Democrats bring up mean GOP votes against maternity care during the election cycle.

Does Brophy think his steely votes, against the  touchiest and feeliest stuff, should be off the table come election time?

We don’t know what Brophy thinks, because host Ross Kaminsky didn’t get into it, though Kaminsky’s show isn’t one of those I-love-the-tea-party-and-the-tea-party-loves-me affairs, like you find on other radio stations. Unlike the core Tea Party nuts (not my term), Kaminsky isn’t a social conservative.

But we know from the radio show, that Brophy thinks health-care politics is “really ugly,” not because of the financial influence of insurance companies, for example, but because of the compassion people feel toward people with infant babies or breast cancer.

If only that really were the ugly part of the health care debate, right?

But not all of Brophy’s allies in his battle against touchy-feely health-care mandates are as plain spoken as Brophy.

A new effort to repeal Colorado’s law requiring insurance companies to offer maternity care was launched recently. It’s going by the decidedly un-touchy-feely name of, “Repeal 10-1021.”

And if that isn’t un-touchy-feely enough for you, its tag line is, “The health care bill that will make you sick.” (Don’t tell that to pregnant women, especially poor ones.)

Nothing about political suicide or touchy-feeliness anywhere on the new site, though a tweet says State Sen. Mark Scheffel is “on board.” Lots of talk about “choice” and “cost.”

I guess the politics of health care are so ugly that you have to listen to conservative talk radio to get the full story.

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31 thoughts on “On Radio, Brophy says it’s almost political suicide to vote against “touchy-feely mandates””

  1. to basically label pro-choicers baby killers but their poor little feelings are unjustly hurt when we point out how mean and stingy they are to actual living mothers and babies and children?  Well, boo hoo.

  3. There you go again…

    Bills like that make it tough for people to KEEP their insurance. Where in that bill does it address income status, anyway? Where does it say that the “poor ones” will benefit from it?

    What is says is that everyone gets prenatal care… so what about my 4 year old kid, or 81 year old grandpa? No CHOICE here – you HAVE to get and pay for it whether you want or need it or not.

    So yeah, I hope the Repeal 1021 people tell that to pregnant women, because it WILL make them sick when they find out that, sure they get coverage now, only they won’t be able to afford it!

    And, oh yeah.. everyone gets contraceptives too, which my 4 year old nor my 81 year old grandpa needs…

    2. Insurance is ultimately socialism.  If you don’t want to pay for coverage for breast cancer because you don’t have them (or heart disease if you don’t have one), you ultimately end up with people paying out of pocket for everything, pricing everyone but the super-rich out of heath care.

      That is the Republican mission isn’t it?  

    3. say about 2005, prenatal care might have been slightly more concerning to you?  And, are you completely certain that it isn’t on your horizon in the very near future?  Have you asked recently?

      And as for granpy and his raincoats, he may have a lot more going on than you know . . . even if it’s only wishful thinking, do you really want to sit down and convince him that those days are long gone and over forever — smartypants whippersnapper?

    4. OHpfph,  before any health care reform legislation, because the consequences of not having a sensible inclusive universal health care plan instead of the universal plan we do have, ER for all those without coverage, are that we pay more than the citizens of any other modern industrialized nation, fewer of us have access to quality affordable care, so are stats are pathetic unless you are comparing us to less developed nations.

      The only way to free ourselves of  the universal healthcare burden we do already have would be to go to a system where you just die in th street if you are a sick four year old and your folks can’t come up with the cash.

      We also are the only modern industrialized nation without a really spiffy high speed rail system and other infrastructure modernization.  We also are bottom feeders among our fellow prosperous modern nations in terms of education.  

      The “We’re number one” chant is pretty much wishful thinking anymore, thanks to short sighted Americans like you. Oh and guess what? Taxes are only out of control if paying less in taxes than any time since the 50s, including the last year of the Bush administration, is your idea of out of control.  

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