Liberals, as you can imagine, freaked. If healthy people are “good” to Brooks, then what are sick people?

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If you listen to the whole interview, it's not quite that black and white. In the next breath Brooks said: “Now, in fairness, a lot of these people with preexisting conditions, they have those conditions through no fault of their own. And I think our society under those circumstances needs to help.”

But, still. Liberals freaked. (A reader pointed out that she took offense with Brooks' qualification that "a lot of" people with preexisting conditions have it through no fault of their own, perhaps implying others don't.)

Washington has been debating health care for most of the past decade. House Republicans could vote on a bill to revise the Affordable Care Act as soon as this week.

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But Brooks's proposal that sick people should pay more is, in our official opinion, far from the most insensitive thing we've heard from either side. So, in a nod to the fact we are Still.Debating.Health.Care, let's make a list of politicians saying insensitive things about health care! And let's rank them!

5) “What about men having to purchase prenatal care?”

Rep. John Shimkus (R-Ill.) asked this in March, as Congress was debating Republicans' first attempt to revise Obamacare.

“What about men having to purchase prenatal care?” Shimkus said. “I’m just . . . is that not correct? And should they?”

At issue here is what Obamacare deems “essential benefits,” or benefits so important that insurance companies have to cover them. They include such things as doctor visits, ambulance rides, prescription drugs — and maternity care. The latter of which Shimkus objected to.

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Shimkus drew national headlines for that question. As the Chicago Sun Times* editorial board pointed out, “men and women alike, as a matter of compassion and finances, have a stake in healthy children coming into the world.”

*Apologies: We originally attributed the above comment to the incorrect newspaper in Chicago. It's from the Chicago Sun Times.

4) “I wouldn't want to lose my mammograms”

A few days later, Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) was the next politician to be felled by framing the debate over benefits that insurance companies provide in a gender-oriented way. He immediately regretted it.

(Also: Men do get breast cancer.)

3) Obamacare passed because of “the stupidity of the American voter or whatever”

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In 2014, video was unearthed of a paid consultant to the Obama administration on Obamacare, reminiscing on a panel about passing the legislation:

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“Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage,” said MIT professor and economist Jonathan Gruber, often called the architect of Obamacare. “And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.”

Gruber later apologized for his comments in front of Congress. And Obama was forced to publicly acknowledge and deny Gruber's stated intent for passing the legislation.

2) “Don't get sick. And if you do get sick, die quickly”

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Our Second-Most-Insensitive Entry comes from Alan Grayson, a former Democratic congressman from Florida, who in a fiery 2009 floor speech attempted to sum up Republicans' opposition to Obamacare as — well, just watch:

“If you have health insurance, we’re going to make it better. If you don’t have health insurance, we're going to provide it to you. If you can’t afford health insurance, then we’ll help you afford health insurance.” So America gets to decide. Do you want the Democratic plan, or do you want the Republican plan? Remember, the Republican plan: “Don’t get sick. And if you do get sick, die quickly.”

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1) Obama's death panels are coming for you

In a 2009 Facebook message, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) made her now infamous (and not true) death panel claim. The claim — rated “Pants on Fire” by PolitiFact and every other fact-checker — spread like wildfire that summer anyway. Palin's death panels helped illustrate people's fears that the government, if not out to kill them, was trying to take away their right to live their lives as they see fit. And it will forever be one of the most memorably out-there things ever said about health-care policy.