Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas) got his chance to catch Trump’s eye this week as he made the talk-show rounds to sell the Republicans’ healthcare plan. On Wednesday morning, he appeared on both Newsmax and MS Now to deliver the same copy-and-paste talking points—remarks that somehow managed to be both deeply hypocritical and hilariously sexist.
“By the way, women make 80% of the healthcare decisions on where you’re going to go. They’re great shoppers,” Marshall—an actual medical doctor—said on Newsmax. Which is so true! Women do be shopping! What they do not be doing is getting reproductive healthcare and bodily autonomy from their GOP representatives. Also on Newsmax, Marshall added that, “Instead of empowering insurance companies, we want to empower you – the consumer.” Hm…
What I love most about these comments is the full acknowledgement that women often make the healthcare choices for their households (hubby barely knows his own kid’s actual ages, let alone their pediatrician!) and that patients deserve control over their healthcare choices. Unfortunately, if you replaced “patients” with “women” and “healthcare choices” with…”reproductive healthcare choices,” Marshall would catapult your liberal, baby-killing ass out of the Sunflower State and into the Gulf of MAGA. Alas, you can’t call yourself a Republican in Congress without being too stupid to understand that you’ve basically just admitted you support bodily autonomy.
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