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Arkansas Republican Senator Tom Cotton has been in the news for spearheading a coalition of 47 Senators who are trying to kill any deal with Iran by warning its leadership that Obama is only in office for another 21 months.
But long before Cotton had fame and his seat in the Senate, he was a little-known member of the House of Representatives. On November 23rd, 2013, he held a town hall meeting in his district in Hot Springs, Arkansas at the Clarion Lake Resort. The meeting was organized primarily to discuss the Affordable Care Act, most specifically the mishaps with the websites governing the health insurance exchanges.
At one point, a constituent submitted a question mentioning that her insurance plan had been cancelled and she refuses to utilize the exchanges that Obama, who she calls a liar, set up.
Rather than telling her that she has an obligation for her own health to seek insurance, Cotton goaded her on, telling her that he himself wouldn't use the exchange website because Russian mobsters may steal his identity.
QUESTION: I want to know why my state insurance Blue Cross and Blue Shield pre-existing high-risk pool was canceled and if it is going to be one of the hopefully reinstated plans that the President of the United States promised. He's lied about so much but I really need my health insurance but I refuse to apply through Obamacare and leave myself and my personal information up for hackers.
COTTON: I have to say I share Tammy's concerns about her personal information. I have to buy any kind of insurance plan that I might buy through the exchange. And I am certainly not going on the exchange to shop right now. I did in early October just because I knew that it would crash and I would prove a point. But I certainly wouldn't put my Social Security number or my tax information in there right now until I'm 100% confident that it's not going to be stolen by Russian mobsters and I'd have my identity stolen and sold on the black market internationally
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/gop-senator-tom-cotton-told-uninsured-constituent-not-use-obamacare-because
chillfactor
(7,587 posts)how do people like him sleep at night? nutcases like Cotton apparently have no conscience...
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)who gave him 56.5% of the vote.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)In fact, I don't think any of the Arkansas voters in my family voted for this jackass. Certainly not my mother or sister, who both thought he was nuttier than a squirrel's winter cache.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)By law now, medical records have to be online, and apparently all the insurance info. is online.
So you get this breach, last month.
But the hack did expose names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers, member health ID numbers, home addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and employment information, including income data, Anthem says.
And yet, Anthem is refusing to allow security tests:
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)And his campaign commercials on TV were truly -worthy
madokie
(51,076 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Cha
(298,018 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)But I know him now...and millions of others now know him.
Nut bag.
riqster
(13,986 posts)Not.