Posted on 07/18/2009 4:30:37 PM PDT by jazusamo
In the health debate, liberals sing Hari Krishnas to the "public option" -- a new federal insurance program like Medicare -- but if it's good enough for the middle class, then surely it's good enough for the political class too? As it happens, more than a few Democrats disagree.
On Tuesday, the Senate health committee voted 12-11 in favor of a two-page amendment courtesy of Republican Tom Coburn that would require all Members and their staffs to enroll in any new government-run health plan. Yet all Democrats -- with the exceptions of acting chairman Chris Dodd, Barbara Mikulski and Ted Kennedy via proxy -- voted nay.
In other words, Sherrod Brown and Sheldon Whitehouse won't themselves join a plan that "will offer benefits that are as good as those available through private insurance plans -- or better," as the Ohio and Rhode Island liberals put it in a recent op-ed. And even a self-described socialist like Vermont's Bernie Sanders, who supports a government-only system, wouldn't sign himself up.
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Very telling. It’s good enough for the serfs, but not for the elites.
This should be a no-brainer - has this been articulated anywhere? I havent seen this anywhere but here on FR but, admittedly - I havent had the TV on much these days.
“Im confused. They now have government-run health insurance. So what is it they say they dont want?”
They do not want the plan that calls for the rationing of the healthcare for us mere peasents.
Congress must adopt this plan as their own, or they must drop it.
I'm going to hang on to this link and add it to my list.
House health bill expands tax benefits to same-sex partners
Expanding tax benefits to same-sex partners of covered employees - as well as opposite-sex domestic partners or adult children of employees - is estimated to cost the government $4 billion over the next 10 years.
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