Posted on 08/13/2013 12:09:21 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Who knew that when President Obama promised, “If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep your health care plan. Period,” he was only referring to federal employees … and himself?
A new survey of 2,500 federal employees and retirees found that 92.3 percent believe federal workers should keep their current health insurance and not be forced into ObamaCare. Only 2.9 percent say they should become part of the new health insurance exchanges.
I suspect a similar percentage of private sector employees would also like to keep their coverage, but most won’t get that option. What I’d like to know is how many of those federal employees so eager to avoid ObamaCare themselves supported forcing everyone else in it.
There’s more. The survey, conducted by FedSmith.com, “an information portal for sources of information impacting the federal community and those interested in the Federal Government’s activities,” found that 96.1 percent think federal retirees should be able to stay with their retirement health insurance. Only 3.9 percent think they should get “Medicare in lieu of their current option.”
To put it simply: Federal employees and retires almost unanimously prefer to stay in their generous taxpayer-funded health insurance program, known as the Federal Employees Health Benefit Plan (FEHBP), rather than being dumped into liberalism’s two greatest monuments to government-run health insurance, ObamaCare and Medicare.
Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?
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Why is this a shock.
It’s not for them, its for us peasants
“What difference does it make at this point?”
They (federal employees) will now be getting a monster subsidy to cover their costs by executive order, I mean “rule change”.
Feds are naive fools if they think they are going to be allowed to continue their existing health plans. Those plans will surely be “ported” over to Obamacare, and then onto single payer government run health care. The only question is when.
The irony in this is that a proponderance of federal employees are Democrats and worship at the alter of liberalism. They are in for quite a surprise.
Like the old adage goes, if you are at a poker table and don’t know who the mark is, then you’re it! LOL
And the GOP, as if they really cared anyway, had an EXCELLENT (teaching) opportunity, which they, of course, pissed away, by standing in front of every camera and microphone and stating “We stand by the Citizens of these United States and will NOT partake of the favoritism offered by the President.”
Yep, the GOPe never fails to size their chance to fail
This is one more way they’re setting government workers against everyday citizens.
Absolutely disgusting.
"Get to work, peasants! Why are you looking at us like that? All this? Well, SOMEONE has to be in charge!"
And the world keeps on turning.
This news, along with the reality that an overwhelming majority of the people want this POS’ DeathCare repealed, and where is Tammy Fay Boehners and the rest of the GOP pu$$ies that are passing as “leadership”? Gawd, you candy a$$es almost make me as sicj as the jug-eared moron communist you continually enable.
Boehner, et. al., need about 25% of Limbaugh in them in order to respond to these demothugs, but I’ve given up expecting anything from this bunch of losers (that is, OUR bunch of losers).
bump
The current plans are paid PRETAX(Well mine is, not all) 0bama care you will be paying AFTER Tax!!
Also 0bama care cost much more.
What exactly is the context. As a fed I want Obamcare repealed.
It’s like nobody cares about anyone but themselves.
And here, I thought Obamacare was supposed to make medical care equal for everyone, and that was why the liberals supported it. Because everyone would be treated the same.
But nope; it’s exactly as another posted. Some are more equal than others. And the liberals are apparently fine with this.
So much for “fairness” and “sticking up for the little guy” and all the other stupid crap they claim they’re for.
How can these people look at themselves in the mirror each night. That’s what I’d like to know. Must be nice, not having a conscience at all. Must make life easy.
Who wants Obamcare?? What is the issue here?
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