A discussion on MSNBC on how insurance companies create roadblocks to Americans seeking medical care swerved into reporting that Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who has been tabbed by Donald Trump to oversee the Department of Health and Human Services, has a key adviser who wants the polio vaccine taken off the market.
MSNBC's "The Weekend" invited on Columbia University Associate Professor Helen Ouyang to describe insurance horror stories she has encountered while working in emergency rooms.
The led co-host Alicia Menedez to bring up the cloud now over RFK Jr. about the efficacy of the polio vaccine that resulted to a major rebuke from outgoing Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) who survived the deadly disease as a child.
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Former RNC chair Michael Steele took the lead from his co-host to combine the two topics in a furious rant.
"Can I dove-tail on that real quick," he interjected. "The bottom line is are insurance companies prepared to pay for polio?"
"No, they're not," co-host Symone Sanders Townsend interjected.
"That's not in your insurance formula right now because we covered that," he exclaimed. "Now you got the secretary of health coming in saying, 'Guess what? We're not going to vaccinate kids for polio, we want to pull that vaccine off the shelf."
"The first polio case shows up, insurance companies, be prepared to pay for that because you got to figure that out –– that's the reality," he added.
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