Joel Dodge: Republicans have a new welfare queen: The sick glutton
“For years, the GOP has waged its health-care fight almost solely in opposition to ObamaCare. But lately, Republicans have been testing a more affirmative case for their American Health Care Act: by dividing people who deserve health care from those who don’t. Take White House budget chief Mick Mulvaney, who recently defended AHCA’s watering-down of ObamaCare’s protections for pre-existing conditions, assuring that the Republican bill provides ‘plenty of money’ to treat cancer patients, but ‘[t]hat doesn’t mean we should take care of the person who sits at home, eats poorly and gets diabetes.’”