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Let anyone obtain Congress’ insurance
Monday, Sept. 28, 2009 | 2:01 a.m.
I read that some Democrats want to tax high-cost insurance plans.
I have a better idea — all citizens could enroll in the same plan that our congressional leaders in Washington have.
Oh, I forgot the most important thing — we would all pay the same premiums as members of Congress enjoy. If a person can’t afford the cost, let the government pay it. Sounds good to me.
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Where is all this money going to come from? We could put 100% tax on government employees and welfare payments for a start.
Try asking any of our congressional leaders if they will allow us into their very exclusive health insurance club...
Try asking them when they will withdraw themselves and their own families from that government insurance and join us in the public insurance pool with all of its hidden exclusions and excessive charges
Try asking them how much their premiums currenlty are and if they would allow us to
have the same rate
Try asking any of them if they have enrolled in Medicare and used the pharmaceutical plan with its ever growing donut hole problem for seniors
These morons, Democratic, Republican, Independent will not answer you and they will concede nothing to you, the taxpayers who foot their insurance bills every day.
Ask Senator Byrd what it cost the taxpayers for his latest insurance escapade including ambulance ride and hospital stay...ask him and other beneficiaries in Congress if they appreciaate what we do for them. Not that they think they do so much for us.
vsestini:
Your ststements are exactly the reason we
need health care reform now.
If health reform is such a major issue, why doesn't the Obama administration IMMEDIATELY through a Presidential Proclamation make Medicaid available to all who can't afford health insurance and have preexisting conditions and can not obtain health insurance?
But, providing coverage to all is not really major issue with the Obama administration. Obama is using it as another crisis to get a complete government takeover of the health care system.
You see, a government takeover of the health care system advances his socialist agenda.
"If it's such a important issue, why doesn't the Obama administration IMMEDIATELY through a Presidential Proclamation make Medicaid available to all who can't afford health insurance and have preexisting conditions and can not obtain health insurance?"
Because covering people is only a part of the equation, Larry. Obviously, you haven't been paying attention.
Just extending Medicaid will not accomplish Obama's ultimate goal: to bring down the cost of health care.
Really, this isn't that complicated if you'll tone down the conspiracy theories maybe you'll understand.
Why not turn the health care industry over to ACORN and let them run it? At least we'd know we could trust them to do the right thing.
Providing coverage to all is not really major issue with the Obama administration. Obama is using it as another crisis to get a complete government takeover of the health care system.
A government takeover of the health care system advances his socialist agenda.
The latest poll by Scott Rasmussen not only shows national opposition to Obamacare rising -- now it is 41% for 56% against -- but also shows the elderly moving against it even more strongly by 33% for 59% or almost 2:1 against it...
Larry:
Don't know if those poll numbers are true, but if they are, it's proof that Republicans are adept at confusing and convincing lots of people so that they act against their own best interests. They've done that before. They somehow convinced lots of people to vote for George Bush a second time. Now that was an amazing accomplishment. We know how well that worked out for those poor folk.
StanG,
I think we are in unusual times...
Unlike our Congressmen, at lot of the people of this country, took the time to read and study the health care reform bills. And they don't like them.