Ad slams Dem candidate for saying healthcare is a 'moral right' while not always providing it to his own employees

If healthcare is a “moral right,” as Democratic congressional candidate Dean Phillips has argued, you’d think he’d feel compelled to ensure his own employees have coverage. As we noted last month, that hasn’t always been the case, and that unexplained discrepancy is starting to cause problems for the House hopeful.

Asked in an interview last year, “Does the coffee shop you’ve started offer health insurance?” Phillips said, “No, we don’t.” That admission came shortly after the entrepreneur argued “healthcare should be a moral right” in the same conversation. In a recent debate, Phillips still tried to claim it was “not true” his business declined to offer coverage at that point, despite being on the record saying otherwise in his own words.