Posted on 11/17/2010 7:53:40 PM PST by cheneyschernobyl
A group of House Democrats has released a letter to Republican congressional leaders calling on them to announce which of their members will be forgoing their congressional benefit health insurance (which is subsidized by the government) in light of their party's opposition to health care reform overhaul legislation.
"If your conference wants to deny millions of Americans affordable health care, your members should walk that walk," four Democrats write in the letter, which is addressed to Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and House Republican leader John Boehner. "You cannot enroll in the very kind of coverage that you want for yourselves, and then turn around and deny it to Americans who don't happen to be Members of Congress."
According to the letter, the federal government pays more than $10,000 of the premiums of each member of Congress who has a family policy under the most selected plan.
The signatories on the letter are four liberal lawmakers: Joseph Crowley of New York, Linda T. Sanchez of California, Donna Edwards of Maryland and Tim Ryan of Ohio. They sent a separate letter to other Democratic colleagues asking them to sign onto the effort.
The Democrats say they were spurred to press Republicans to announce their position by news that Andy Harris, a conservative incoming Republican House freshman, had complained that he would not receive his government-subsidized health care coverage until Feb. 1, a month after he is sworn into office.
Harris campaigned against the health care bill, which is projected to provide coverage to more than 30 million previously uninsured Americans, and his party is vowing to "repeal and replace" it.
In their letter, the Democrats write they were "surprised" to see Harris complain that "there is a delay before benefits take effect. Ironically, this is the same predicament millions of Americans currently find themselves in."
"We also find it interesting that members of the Republican conference would have no problem taking away health coverage from hard-working Americans, but expect expanded coverage for themselves and their families," they add, writing that the health care reform bill gives Americans the option of selecting a plan in a manner similar to members of Congress.
Will the GOP let the Dems take the offense on this issue?
Wow, I haven’t been to DU in years. What eloquence, what wit, what intelligence..... what hate.
That site has really gone downhill and I thought it was at the bottom of the barrel five years ago!
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ROFLOL, nice headline edit!
My thanks again...........
Great idea! The first act of the new House should be to remove government healthcare for all congressmen. New members won’t miss what they have never had.
Your memory serves you well:
Posted on Monday, February 22, 2010 11:21:23 AM by MindBender26
(Talking about an Obama claim about Obamacare providing exact level of treatment Senators and Congressmembers now get)
The exact quote from the Obama press release is: “It sets up a new competitive health insurance market giving tens of millions of Americans the exact same insurance choices that members of Congress will have.”
This is complete and ongoing BS. Congress and their staffers and friends don’t just get Cadillac care; they get Rolls Royce care... care no American will ever see.
How good is the medical care for Senators and Congressmembers? There is a physician or nurse practitioner on duty in EVERY Senate and House office building all day/every day. Not just one for the Senators and one for House Members; there is a doctor or nurse practitioner on duty in EACH of the three Senate office buildings and one in each of the three House office buildings! There is even one on duty in the Capitol building itself.
That means no Member or Senator is ever more than a 250 foot walk away from a Doctor or Nurse Practitioner who will see them immediately, with no waiting as soon as they walk in the door!
It is called the “Office of the Attending Physician of the United States Congress.” All Members pay for instant health care and all their drugs is $503.
No, not $503 per month. $503 per YEAR!
No claim forms, no paperwork, just one $503 per year fee, unchanged since 1992, for everything they could ever want. When I was working there as a reporter, if I needed anything, a Congressional staffer would make one quick phone call, and I could just walk in and instantly get anything I wanted, no waiting.
$503 a year for absolutly everything, including drugs!
We’ll get same as Congress??? It’s all a big Obamalie!
Thank You. If you have no reservations on my using your post occasionally to make a point on this matter, I will, and of course with appropriate credit.
Gopher it!
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Government zot care? LOL! IATZ.
I know you have already been ZOTTED, but here is a going away gift, should you ever return to see the outcome of your short stay on FR.
There are other people with your IQ currently serving in the US Congress. Just look at the (d) side of the isle, and you are probably at the top of the IQ list. The swimmer teddy was probably your true political hero, since he was drunk most of the day. Either he or Robert KKK Byrd was your real hero. Or are you more on the SAN FRAN NAN side? Maybe B Hussein O is your leftwing hero.
Did you have a few too many snorts of cocaine with your Tequila this morning? Why dont you go to the local office and collect your stinking food stamps and go buy your liquor and cigarettes for the week? Druggies like you should not be allowed anywhere near a computer. That can be dangerous, since you may accidentally access a porn site and that could affect your IQ even worse at your age.
Just leave us alone to our intelligent political discussion. Well, you dont know what intelligence is, by your totally ignorant initial post. What is with liberals like you? You have to mess up the Internet with your whiny, juvenile ideas. I know first graders who have much more intellect than you exhibited with your little rant. There is nothing that indicates any amount of intelligence.
Does your mommy know you are alone with her computer? You should be banned from ever being allowed anywhere near any electronics again, since you may occidental shock yourself. Well, that could do some good and ensure you never reproduce any offspring. Go back to doing what you Dummies do best trash anyone you disagree with and praise the idiot democrats who hate America.
Whatever the case, you should never be allowed to vote in any election. It takes some understanding of politics to understand that every candidate and his or her supporters agree with and have the courage to ensure that agenda is good for America.
Besides that, you are a hypocritical, greedy, violent, malevolent, vengeful, cowardly, deadly, mendacious, meretricious, loathsome piece of crap. You and all the dims are despicable, belligerent, opportunistic, contemptible, and a criminal enterprise. You have been so bigoted, racist, and sexist; you have made yourself look like an idiotic, brain-damaged imbecile. Youre insane, arrogant, deceitful, demented, lame, self-righteous, and your almost, satanic beliefs have destroyed this country. The entire dumboCRAP party is a bunch of fraudulent, ignorant, clueless, mostly illegitimate individuals who have been harmful and destructive to this nation.
You are dumb, evasive, double-talking, devious, and so revisionist, you cannot see a tenth of an inch past the tip of your nose. You are narrow-minded, manipulative, dogmatic, idolatrous, unethical, and diseased with symptoms that resemble that of a lifelong alcoholic like the swimmer. You try to be suppressive, controlling, restrictive, malignant, deceptive, dim, crazy, weird, stifling, uncaring, secretive, aggressive, mind-numbing, and abrasive, you seem like a bad dream that never ends. Your poisonous, flagrant, self-destructive, abusive, socially-retarded, puerile, and clueless behavior is something that defies explanation. The best thing you can do for the country is to take a leap off a very tall cliff, without a parachute.
Let’s talk about ducks.
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So is your mom going to refund my money for that night we spent together last night?
I was very disappointed in her performance.
i expected quality, that was pathetic.
There is better quality to be found from Panamanian Siamese twin midget wrestler fetish film star hookers with prosthetic legs.
Yet the same Libtards refused to opt out of the congressional insurance plan and default to Obamacare.
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