Congressman who suggested that people with preexisting conditions don't "lead good lives" or do things "the right way" diagnosed with prostate cancer

He didn't even say anything wrong:

"My understanding is that (the new proposal) will allow insurance companies to require people who have higher health care costs to contribute more to the insurance pool," Brooks said. "That helps offset all these costs, thereby reducing the cost to those people who lead good lives, they're healthy, they've done the things to keep their bodies healthy. And right now, those are the people--who've done things the right way--that are seeing their costs skyrocketing."

[...] Later in the CNN interview, Brooks acknowledged some people who maintain their health can still have pre-existing conditions.

"In fairness, a lot of these people with pre-existing conditions, they have those conditions through no fault of their own," he said. "And I think our society, under those circumstances, needs to help. The challenge though is that it's a tough balancing act between the higher cost of these mandates which denies people coverage because they can't afford their health insurance policies...and having enough coverage to help those people truly in need."

(Emphasis added.) It's not even a very controversial statement.

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