Monday on ABC’s “The View,” Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) said “it’s offensive,” only male senators are in Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) health care working group.
Partial transcript as follows:
HOSTIN: You know, women stand a lot to lose here as you mentioned, but when you look at the photo of the people that are deciding, working on this bill, look at the 13 senators. They’re all men.
GOLDBERG: Do any of them have female genitalia? Maybe we’re missing something.
HOSTIN: All Republicans.
BEHAR: White men, White men.
HOSTIN: Does that concern you when you see that?
GILLIBRAND: It does. It does, because women do have a lot to lose. We were really discriminated against by health care companies without Obamacare. We were charged more. Being a mom was considered a pre-existing condition for some people. The fact we would be charged more because we’re women, and we might get pregnant, and when we are pregnant, that was considered a pre-existing condition. We have a lot to lose. It’s offensive and it’s troubling that there are no women.
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