Posted on 07/09/2009 7:09:16 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
President Barack Obama keeps telling us how wonderful that his health care plan will be.
"No matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people," Obama said addressing the American Medical Association. "If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what." He didn't let up."If you like what you're getting, keep it," Obama said. "Nobody is forcing you to shift." Source
Sounds wonderful right? So if the Democratically controlled congress thinks that their health care plan is so wonderful, why is there clause in the bill that says Congress (and all Federal Employees) exempted from the plan?
One Congressman, John Fleming (R-La.), has introduced a bill urging members of Congress who vote for the health care bill to give up up their wonderful federal health insurance program and enroll in any enacted government program. Unfortunately its a non binding bill. Nice start Mr. Fleming, but congress should be required to put their families in the same danger that Obamacare will put our Family into:
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Here here!
Obamacare would put an end to elderly chronically ill people like Robert Byrd, Ted Kenndy and Strom Thurmond being kept on wheelchair standby for votes on partisan issues, wouldn’t it? These men would be DEAD under obamacare.
Patrick Kennedy would have maxed out his inpatient mental health benefits by now and been reduced to attending NarAnon meetings.
Should they be forcefully enrolled?
AB-SO-FRIGGIN’-LUTELY!!!
I wrote him back:
re: your email to me
“ Is quality, affordable Health Care possible?”
Your questions to me:
What concerns you most about your own health care?
does not offer me all the choices necessary to let you know how I feel.
Please keep government out of health care..that is the best you can do for me. while you are at it please get as much government out of my life as possible.
Marxism has worked nowhere it has been tried.
to paraphrase Thomas Jefferson. The government that governs best governs least.
Our constitution is to be read as written and not modified by some european socialist ideal.
Thank you for listening
Vaquero(well not really vaquero)
Whatever happened to “Keep you laws off my body”?
Just sayin’.
Gee, who would have guessed it but our BETTERS — the so-called political elites who are running things (slap into the ground) in the country — HAVE EXEMPTED THEMSELVES from the “UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE” they have planned for us PEONS and PEASANTS. They — and their millions of bureaucratic minions — have a VASTLY SUPERIOR healthcare plan.
HEY — The term is UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE. That means it covers the universe, i.e., the ENTIRE POPULATION. EVERYONE is covered by the SAME RULES and NOBODY is LEFT OUT!
If that IS what the Democrat political elites REALLY WANT, here’s the deal:
NO EXCEPTIONS!!!
No members of Congress or ANYONE in the White House running off to Walter Reed or Bethesda for that nasty ingrown toenail, hacking cough and spitting up blood. Take a number and wait in the same line the rest of us are.
That goes for your congressional and White House children and other family members! GET IN LINE!!! That REALLY LONG ONE that ends on the other street.
And if your UNIVERSAL RULES dictate that some life-saving treatment would be too expensive or not be cost-effective for you older members, here’s a twenty (the cost of a phone call once the TARP “money” hits the system) – call someone who cares.
Oh yeah – forgot the best part: If ANY of you are found to be availing yourselves of what idiot representative Fortney “Pete” Stark (as in “raving mad) from (where else) KAHLIFONIA once called “Boutique Medicine” (cute, huh?) by bypassing the universal system, not getting that needed treatment will be the least of your problems.
Use some of those free cell phone long distance minutes and call the Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and give YOUR congresscritter a piece of your mind while it’s still legal to do so.
And if you’re one of those NPR listeners who thinks “congress is pissing away our grandkids’ legacy (BTW, it;s already GONE!), doesn’t listen to us, wastes our “money,” refuses to close the borders, deport the illegals, etc., etc., ad nauseum — BUT MY CRITTER’S ONE OF THE GOOD GUYS” — check him out at http://www.gradegov.com/. Be sure you’re sitting down.
Stay strong and remember, WE SURROUND THEM! Let’s start acting like it!!
“congresscrapster”
LOL!!
I wonder what your Senaturds think.
Congress critters should be put on 0 care for two years before it comes up for a vote. Let them try it.
“Congress critters should be put on 0 care for two years before it comes up for a vote. Let them try it.”
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I like your idea!
If Obamacare is enacted, I propose that every member of Congress who voted for it pay the maximum amount in taxes and "premiums" to suppoort it. Whether they actually use it or not is up to them.
Congress has a superb plan, paid for by us suckers. I’m sick of the liberal elite which gives itself special privileges and craps on the ordinary public, after taking its money.
What YOU said!!!!
Um, no, Mr. President, this is a free country and any doctor or private health care plan can cease to provide you with services if they so choose.
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