Lloyd Doggett says no provision for Congress to have same health care as American Public

You Tube ^ | 8/9/2009 | ELazarus

[elazarus]

In a very orderly discussion of the Health care issue on Saturday 8/8/2009 Congressman Doggett was asked about mandating all Congressmen, Senators, government workers and the President to be required to use the same health plan as the American Public.

His committee has studied health care for 2 years but says that such provisions are not part of the overall plan.

Both sides of the healthcare reform issue cheered when this was brought up to the Congressman.

[Boardwalk]

Our “representatives” on a whole are too old and would die with 0bamadeathcare.

[meadsjn]

They should at least be subject to the End of Life provisions in the bill before they vote for it to affect others.

[MozarkDawg]

Shouldn't our President and ALL federal government workers be required to have the same health plan that they pass for the American people?

Understand I am not giving Democrats an excuse, the out, but I believe the majority of Republicans currently in the House and Senate stood for election in 1994, ALL Republicans running for election that year were signatories to the Contract With America. The very first reform in the Contract:

FIRST, require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply equally to the Congress;

Any Republican who votes yea on whatever health care bill is presented, he must be hounded by his own constituents to be the first in line to sign on to the plan, not afford himself of the waiver provided to Members of Congress. These people should be targeted at the townhalls, not just Democrats, as they have already pledged, contracted with Us, the American People, that they would live under the laws they pass on us. It's long past time to seriously hold their feet to the fire.

[MozarkDawg]

Did the King and Queen in days of old have the same medical care as their subjects?

Of course not.

The President and Congress are America’s royalty. They deserve the best health care the taxpayers money can buy for them.

You're close in your analogy -- the king had his own personal physician, currently, so does the sitting U.S. president. The nobility had the highest quality physicians, treatment, provided to them, as everything else they had, wore, ate, etc., by the serfs, just as MOC's are provided their benefits by virtue of the sweat of the brow of the citizenry.

The only difference, then the serfs were lucky if they got the attention of the local barber, we citizens still have the opportunity to provide quality care for ourselves, it is available to us to access. This will not be the case when/if this bill passes, at some point, the access to quality health care for the citizen will no longer exist ...

... and we know it, that is what the furor is all about. We fought a war to dissolve our allegiance to that system, our Founders knew firsthand the unfairness, to put it mildly, far too many of us understand, really, what the revolution was all about.

[RobbyS]

Well, as a retired federal employee, I would be doubly screwed. If i were forced into the public option, I probably would see my costs for a secondary policy double. What bothers me is that My son, who is self-employed will be paying for the public plan as much as he is today. Those people are the ones getting the shaft but the liberals don’t care about them. The self-employed and small business will be the milk-cows for the “poor”’ health care.

[RobbyS]

It doesn’t help that our elected king is making no secret of enjoying living so high on the hog. He is noveau-riche personified, he and his vulgar wife.

[Reagan Man]

>>>>> ... the serfs were lucky if they got the attention of the local barber...

A little off the sides and remove that growth on my leg.

[a fool in paradise]

Welcome to the rise of the American Politburo.

[FreepShop1]

When I visited East Berlin in 1987, we saw amazing economic deprivation among the people. Every museum or other offical place we visited had cabbage and borscht (a kind of beet soup) to "eat". People drove Trabants, a horrendous car, but only if they could afford one. I was told it took 5 years for a family to save up for one. I was also told that only party members could get one in red.

And then one day we traded dollars for Ostmarks in a lavaratory (quite illegally) at a 14:1 rate, and suddenly we were among the richest in all East Berlin. We went HERE...

The TeleCafe, the gorgeous rotating restaurant at the top of the huge telecom tower. There, where only party members could dine, we saw riches people on the ground could only dream of...caviar, French Champagne, lobster, New York Strip steak. And so we chowed down and partied up...until we started getting a few too many stares to be comfortable. So we departed, back to the masses below, eating borscht, sitting in silence, glancing at the doors every so often, as if they were about to be kicked open by the Stasi.

All I could think about the rest of my trip was the party members, laughing and partying, groping hot women and drinking expensive Western booze. For a young college student it really stamped upon my soul the evil lie that is Socialism. And how those who rule under the leftist "utopia" have far different rules for themselves than for the masses they rule. The same kind of masses that Lloyd Doggett cynically lies to, preserving for himself and the other leftists in Congress superior healthcare while leaving the rest of us with the very worst care, befitting our Serfdom.

When I left East Berlin I was forever a Conservative.

[MozarkDawg]

The arrogance is astounding! That picture the other day, the officer assisting the disabled professor, supposedly 0bama's good friend, ha!! But the face he has on, his body language, "I'm the president, I can't be bothered assisting someone down the short flight of steps, please."

If I have to hear him say, "I'm the president" one more time! All right, enough already, WE KNOW. Maybe he needs to see one of the mental health folks that Tipper Gore was pushing during HillaryCare, the way he needs to remind himself all the time, sheesh.

[Little Ray]

Not just Congresscritters, but ALL government employees should be required to use the “public option.”

[mojitojoe]

Absolutely, and if they won’t we refuse it as well.

[Borax Queen]

If I have to hear him say, "I'm the president" one more time! All right, enough already, WE KNOW.

Completely!! Too bad there's no provision in his elitist health plan that fixes liberalism and extreme narcissism.

[Arrowhead1952]

TX ping

[AFPhys]

If the Congress wants to reform the system and implement a “public option”, they should FIRST test it in a small scale on THEMSELVES AND ALL FEDERAL WORKERS, making it MANDATORY for all those. After several years of experience, then ALL people should have a completely voluntary chance to sign up for that system at EXACTLY the same price that Congress is required to pay for coverage.

If they are so hot to do this, let’s see them do it for themselves and those they work with first.

[TexasNative2000]

Great post. Reality has a way of making conservatives of us all, doesn’t it?