Sharron Angle Pans Mandated Health Care Coverage For Autism Treatment, Maternity Leave (VIDEO)

Speaking at a Tea Party rally last year, Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle appeared to mock the notion that health care coverage for autism treatment and maternity leave should be mandated.

"Take off the mandates for coverage in the state of Nevada and all over the United States," she charged in making remarks that were captured on camera and now are being circulated by the Nevada State Democratic Party. "You know what I'm talking about. You're paying for things that you don't even need. They just passed the latest one, is everything that they want to throw at us now is covered under 'autism'."

In video shot of Angle making the criticism, she can be seen making air quotes as she says "autism."

The Tea Party darling went on to say, "So, that's a mandate that you have to pay for. How about maternity leave? I'm not going to have anymore babies, but I sure get to pay for it on my insurance. Those are the kinds of things that we want to get rid of."

Nevada-based station My News 4 reports:

Her comments regarding autism coverage refer to Assembly Bill 162, which passed with sweeping bipartisan support in the Nevada Legislature in 2009. Only two Nevada legislators voted no on the bill: Assemblyman Ed Goedhart, R-Amargosa, Churchill, Esmeralda, Lincoln, Mineral, Nye counties, and AssemblymanDon Gustavson, R-Sparks, Humboldt, Lander, Washoe counties. The bill passed 60-2 in both houses with one legislator absent.

The Las Vegas Sun first reported on the clip of Angle's comments coming to light on Wednesday.

Angle is vying to unseat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid in November. The four-term incumbent's camp didn't hold back in reacting to the matter.

In a statement, Reid campaign spokesman Kelly Steele said, "Sharron Angle's extreme and dangerous agenda for Nevada has included some exceptionally callous rhetoric, including calling out-of-work Nevadans 'spoiled' by unemployment benefits and saying that rape victims should 'make lemons into lemonade' by having their attacker's child, but mocking those suffering with autism - and in fact scapegoating their coverage for our nation's current health care woes - is exceptionally cruel and represents a new low, even for Sharron Angle."

WATCH: Angle Slams Mandated Health Care Coverage For Autism Treatment, Maternity Leave

Comments

[conlawprize]

01:50 AM on 11/05/2010

if you dont grasp what angle is saying you'll never reform the health care system.

[Barbara Saunders]

04:07 PM on 11/03/2010

Dumb. Obviously my insurance pays for somebody else's babies, their insurance pays for my broken leg, and so on. Isn't that what insurance IS?

[Sean777]

06:03 PM on 10/02/2010

The Economy is not in the hands of the President alone; we need the Senate, the House of Representatives and the Congress to act; the biggest danger we are facing is the Tea Party, a movement that suppose to be about fiscal responsibility has emerged as an obstructionist force against Democrats and true Republicans; instead of resourcing on economists to move a fiscal responsibility agenda the Tea Party is based on racism, hooliganism and predatorily politics we need to stop them on November.

Tea Party Bullies:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/04/whos-crazier-orly-taitz-o_n_251270.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S38VioxnBaI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb_yqcxiVlY&feature=related


We can live with smart Republicans in power but we can not allow Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Rand Paul, Joe Miller, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, Jim DeMint, Ken Buck, Pat Toomey, Tom Emmer, Nikki Haley, Dino Rossi, Marco Rubio or Sharron Angle take a seat in the Senate. The Tea Party does not necessarily stands by Republican or as a matter of fact American values.

[JoannainPA]

01:44 PM on 10/02/2010

People like this are the so hatful and and ignorant, no where even close to Christian. They are disgraceful!

[martan]

12:35 AM on 10/02/2010

Her husband worked for the Bureau of Land Management. She's another hypocritical conservative who is willing to work off the government in her private life, but wants to tear it down when running for office.

[CitizenKane16]

11:01 PM on 09/30/2010

Orly Taitz just endorsed her. Hopefully that will be the end of that.

[iconoclast6]

10:31 PM on 09/30/2010

I have Asperger Syndrome and I've managed to acquire a career with a place that doesn't care, a college which Angle would like to see privatized or closed. I KNOW I'm different and Sharron just can't stand different people, so she mocks us and wants us pushed to the margins of society.

Sharron, you say I'm faking it? I say you're faking humanity, cupid stunt.

[CitizenKane16]

11:02 PM on 09/30/2010

She is a waste of humanity and completely not worth the time. Good luck to you.

[kevcom64]

08:41 PM on 09/30/2010

Don't worry she will still win people can't see through the smoke screen until it's to late hahaaahahahahahahahahaha wait i see dum people.

[Illy]

08:24 PM on 09/30/2010

How can this race possibly still be a toss-up?

[CitizenKane16]

10:59 PM on 09/30/2010

Because stupid is as stupid does.

[indothinker]

07:43 PM on 09/30/2010

doesn't anyone else find it amusing that her health insurance is paid for by the federal government (through her husband who is a civil servant) but she wants to deny everyone the same insurance?

[shwicksdad]

07:29 PM on 09/30/2010

You know what's really frightening?

The fact that she not only spews some of the most ridiculously nonsensicle, insulting, assinine statements from her mouth....but apparenty has thousands and thouands of people that believe and support her for saying it.

[shwicksdad]

07:11 PM on 09/30/2010

Typical tea-bagger mentality:

"It doesn't benefit ME so let's get rid of it before it benefits someone else"

[01202009]

06:25 PM on 09/30/2010

I don't have kids in school but I still pay for education Sharron. WTF?

[mrmikes]

04:58 PM on 10/01/2010

She's against that too. She would like to abolish the department of education, yet she loves America. BTW, she and her husband enjoy government health care.

[Easy420forMe]

05:56 PM on 09/30/2010

Does she truly understand the words she speaks? somehow I doubt it... poor Nevada

[MoeB]

05:47 PM on 09/30/2010

Nevada. SERIOUSLY. WTF? She's virtually tied with Reid??? I'm not a huge fan of Reid, but goodness...what are you all about to do there in November?