November 16, 2010
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A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in.
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The market has spoken, Doctor.
The congressman-elect obviously is talking about one of the 19 or so plans he will be able to choose from once he is covered under the federal employee health insurance program.
Because I notice he didn’t mention the onsite Navy medical clinic. Members pay roughly $500 annually for care there and the rest is paid for through the federal budget. They don’t submit claims through their federal health plan either.
The clinic was set up supposedly for emergency preparedness and public health through the Office of the Attending Physician. But members of Congress and the Senate can get physicals, on site x-rays, lab work and referrals, right where they work! Specialists are brought in to see them, often at no extra charge.
Sacrifice? Okay, fine, but you first, congresspersons.
Socialists.
I just wish that actions had consequences for Republicans and ‘conservatives’ as they do for Democrats and ‘liberals’. Why shouldn’t government-run health care immediately be dropped for every representative and senator, of either party, who voted against this year’s legislation?
Well said, Coop. And now they want to delay the vote on the US/Russian nuke treaty until the next congress is in place with all the new crazies present. I can hear it now–nothing like reviving the great battle of the cold war as the next big reason for fear that–therefore, should lead one to vote Republican. Destroy ICBMs, and then in a mad dash build them again! What a splendid plan for generating wealth while keeping the deficit down, maybe not way down–hell, maybe a little higher this year but we’re working on it.