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TPM Election Central —
... Appearing on Meet The Press, Senate Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-AZ) took issue with reports that people die for lack of health insurance: "I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance. But because they don't have health insurance, the care is not delivered in the best and most efficient way." ...
Sen. Jon Kyl: "I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they don't have health insurance."
Blog For Arizona —
... -- that lack of health insurance is linked to higher risk of death. Kyl: 'I'm Not Sure It's A Fact' That Lack Of Health Insurance Causes People To Die: ...
Kyl's callous confusion
Political Animal —
... I've never heard you say that that should be deficit-neutral, that war costs should somehow not break the bank. Why is that disparity there?" Kyl responded by saying we can't "scrimp and save or try to win a war on the cheap," adding that the conflict in Afghanistan "is a war of necessity," because of 9/11. Gregory followed up, asking whether it might also be a "necessity" to address the fact that "more and more Americans who die because they don't have access to health insurance." Kyl replied , "I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die because they ...
Dawn Teo: Sen. Kyl Not Sure People Die From Lack of Health Insurance
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... Sunday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) was asked by host David Gregory if it is "a necessity to tackle the fact that there are more and more Americans who die because they don't have access to health insurance?"
Kyl responded with incredulity:
I'm not sure that it's a fact that more and more people die
because they don't have health insurance. But because they don't have
health insurance, the care is not delivered in the best and most
efficient way.
As TPM points out, a highly publicized Harvard research study made ...
NH-Sen: Ayotte's DC Donors, in their Own Words
Blue Hampshire —
... party.
...During the campaign, [Thurmond] said, "All the laws of Washington and all the bayonets of the Army cannot force the Negro into our homes, our schools, our churches."
Senator Mitch McConnell, on (then) fellow Senator Clinton: "I hear [Hillary] hasn't been this worried since a new Hooters opened" near her home with former President Bill Clinton, McConnell said, prompting laughs from the 400 Northern Kentucky Republicans.
Senator Jon Kyl, on living under a rock: I'm not sure that it's a fact that ...
