Ex-Sheriff Fought Against Obamacare Now Needs Help Paying Medical Bills

by Jill Bond

Former Arizona sheriff Richard Mack — a Clive Bundy supporter who last year proposed putting women on the front lines at the Bundy Ranch to be shot and a passionate opponent of Obamacare — is now trying to find the means to pay for his and his wife’s medical bills, because… Karma.

Mack is self-employed, according to Talking Points Memo, and founded the Constitutional Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association “to uphold, defend, protect, preserve, and obey the Constitutions of the United States of America.” He described the group on the CSPOA blog site as “the army to set our nation free.” Of course they don’t believe in government “handouts” or having states partake in the Affordable Care Act. That would be unpatriotic!

And now he finds himself and his wife both recovering from serious illnesses and is left to beg for money to cover their hospital bills and expenses because he chose to thumb his nose at the ACA. Or as I’m sure he likes to call it, Obummercare.

Mack’s answer to his distressing situation has been to start a GoFundMe account that his friends, family and strangers can contribute their hard-earned dollars to in order to help cover the expenses he and his wife have racked up while being uninsured.

“Since it appears that recovery will take a good deal of time with associated expenses, I struggle to not feel stress – both the stress of thinking about huge hospital and other medical bills as well as regular living expenses while I am unable to work — and also the stress of not being able to accomplish what I am so passionate about doing for others,” Talking Points Memo reports Mack wrote in a note on his GoFundMe page. “It is difficult and humbling to say that we need your help, but we do.”

Some people never learn. The number of uninsured Americans has been reduced by 12 million thanks to the ACA, and that number is expected to climb to 24 million by the end of 2016, ensuring that these individuals won’t be put into the same dire predicament that Mack has currently found himself in.

Yet one of the things Mack has been “passionate” about doing is, you guessed it — blocking affordable health care.