Tom Cotton Told Uninsured Constituent Not to Use Obamacare Because “Russian Mobsters” Would Steal He

[Ichingcarpenter]

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]

1. Cotton is a real nutcase.....

how do people like him sleep at night? nutcases like Cotton apparently have no conscience...

[Ichingcarpenter]

3. Thank the brilliant voters in Arkansas

who gave him 56.5% of the vote.

[Art_from_Ark]

7. Well he didn't get MY vote

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]

8. Actually, he DOES have a point about identity theft.

By law now, medical records have to be online, and apparently all the insurance info. is online.
So you get this breach, last month.

Anthem, the nation's second largest health insurer, estimates tens of millions of individuals' records were actually stolen, and not just viewed, by the hackers,

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.

http://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/anthem-breach-tally-788-million-affected-a-7946

And yet, Anthem is refusing to allow security tests:

A federal watchdog agency says Anthem Inc. has refused to allow it to conduct vulnerability scans of the health insurer's systems in the wake of its recent massive data breach affecting 78.8 million individuals. Anthem also refused to allow scans by the same agency in 2013

http://www.healthcareinfosecurity.com/anthem-refuses-full-security-audit-a-7980/op-1

[Art_from_Ark]

11. He certainly was way off about ISIS invading Arkansas through Mexico

And his campaign commercials on TV were truly -worthy

[madokie]

10. I'm sure his higher power beliefs carries him through the night

[Glimmer of Hope]

2. He has no business holding public office.

[Cha]

4. Yeah, he's a tool alright.. I'm thinking ted cruz is jealous of his tooldom.

[SoapBox]

5. I had never heard of him...

But I know him now...and millions of others now know him.

Nut bag.

[riqster]

6. Gotta love Tehran Tom.

Not.

[Gothmog]

9. Cotton is a worthy replacement for Bachmann