Miss USA Talks About Her Answer

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

An avalanche of criticism continues to fall on the new Miss USA Kara McCullough for her statement at the contest on Sunday that access to health insurance is "a privilege."

"As a government employee, I have guaranteed health and I see first hand that to have medical assistance, you must have a job," said the beauty queen, who is a scientist and works at the Nuclear Energy Regulatory Commission, in response to a question in the contest.

His words did not sit well when suggesting that those who lack health coverage are because they do not work, when there are millions of workers who lack health insurance.

For this reason, the representatives of Washington DC corrected their response in an interview in the studio of the television program Good Morning America (ABC), where they wanted to "clarify" their opinion and acknowledged that the criticism "did not completely surprise them."

"I am privileged to have health insurance and I think it should be a right," she clarified. "I hope and pray that the health system is a right for everyone."

The young woman explained that with her answer she wanted to show that "where I come from."

"I have a job, I have to see health insurance as a privilege," he said.

McCullough, 25, will represent the United States in the Miss Universe pageant, for which the host country is not yet dated or known. Meanwhile, other Latin American nations such as Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Puerto Rico and Mexico are already preparing their flag bearers in search of the crown of the most important beauty pageant in the world.