Tony Perkins, president of the
Christian conservative Family Research Council, has criticized an
initiative aimed at enrolling LGBT people in health care plans.
In an email to supporters, Perkins
criticized the Out2Enroll
program, a project organized by three private groups, and its
alliance with a weekly drag show in Shreveport, Louisiana, Wednesday
Night Tea.
The drag troupe has been promoting
Out2Enroll at its weekly shows and on social media with the aim of
enrolling 300,000 people in the federal exchange.
“It looks like the President really
is skirting the issues with ObamaCare,” Perkins wrote. “Thanks
to a new partnership with a Louisiana drag queen show, the
administration thinks it's finally tapping into a market it needs to
boost enrollment numbers. With the help of the Center for American
Progress (CAP), a troupe of transvestites called Wednesday Night Tea
has started promoting HealthCare.gov as part of its act. (If the law
lacked legitimacy before, wait until a cast of cross-dressing men get
through with it!)”
“By funneling more money to the LGBT
community, the administration is only making the system more
unsustainable. To properly fund the system, healthy applicants are
needed – not a high risk pool fed by even higher risk behavior. As
taxpayers are about to find out, the system wasn't designed to
withstand the volume of elderly, sick, and at-risk patients most
likely to enroll. Either the exchanges will buckle under the weight
or the government (i.e. taxpayers) will start shouldering even higher
costs to compensate for the medical demand.”
GoodAsYou.org's
Jeremy Hooper pointed out that Perkins is wrong in criticizing the
White House, since Out2Enroll is not a federal program.