Posted on 09/30/2009 10:49:29 AM PDT by RaptorY22
Iowa Republican, Sen. Chuck Grassley, won passage for an amendment that will force Congress and congressional staff members to access health insurance through the exchange that would be created by the health care reform legislation under consideration by the Finance Committee.
In a news release Grassley said, “the more that Congress experiences the laws we pass, the better the laws are likely to be.”
Members of the committee agreed through unanimous consent on Tuesday night to support the Grassley amendment. Senator Jim Bunning was a cosponsor of the amendment.
As it stands now, members of Congress and their staffs participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. The exchange that would be established by the pending legislation is modeled after this federal employees’ program and designed to give participants the same kind of choices and options for health care coverage as federal employees.
It would allow individuals who don’t receive insurance from employers to purchase policies at group rates.
Grassley also said, “my interest in having Members of Congress participate in the exchange is consistent with my long-held view that Congress should live under the same laws it passes for the rest of the country.”
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Wow. Who knew Grassley had a spine? I suspect you’re right, though. In committee it will be eliminated. Congress would NEVER accept the health care plan they want to force on us.
“Senator Byrd, the panel is ready to see you now.”
Good luck with that idea.
They have doctors and surgeons on call. Nice.
You are dead on. When the house and Senate get together to reconcile theeir versions of the bill, it will get tossed. Once the the House and the Senate agree on a final bill, it will be passed somewhere around 3 in the morning the night before the Thanksgiving recess.
100% accurate. There is no way Congress will subject itself to the crap health insurance they seek to inpose on the prolitariat slaves.
One way that the Congress would be forced on the health care bill they want to pass for us is to vote them all out of office and make them private citizens again. That way they won’t be on the Congressional health care plan any longer.
Easy fix......put Congress on permanent vacation until 2010. Only problem is people wouldn’t see all the stupid things they are capable of. If these guys ever had to work for a living, they would starve.
Yes they will. Like other retired federal employees receiving a pension, they will continue to be able to be part of FEHB program including having the USG subsidize about 70% of the costs. I have the same program and am retired.
It’s not only time to get rid of Congress; it’s time to put them in jail.
Funny thing is, the last time Republicans took this position, they were in the minority 1994 trying to win the majority. Once they took power it was.... ever read Orwells Animal Farm??
Where does the Rangel Rule fit relative to other laws that may apply to the Congressional folks?
Chuck’s amendment has zero chance...
Would you have it if you were fired instead of retired?
Put Congress On Any Health Plan It Passes
Retirement and everything else too
Yes, as long as the government continued to subsidize it or I could afford the total cost of around $13K a year.
“my interest in having Members of Congress participate in the exchange is consistent with my long-held view that Congress should live under the same laws it passes for the rest of the country.”
Rots of ruck with that!
STE=Q
No one said, "As soon as we're in the majority we're going to provide America with our health plan." But you are obviously so demented you're incapable of giving the Republicans credit for anything.
You Flying Monkeys are pathetic.
Republicans did great ‘out of power’, the Republican ‘in power’ experiment was a disaster, as was the GWB presidency. My Animal farm point was the Animals took over the farm to stop the farmer's abuses. But once in power the pigs took over and acted just like the Farmer, with a few variances. The Animals had a set of laws like ‘the contract with America’ and being in power the pigs changed them all to remove all the reforms, to protect their power.
Last night FNC the 'RNC/GWB/McCain bootlicker' Hannity said “Republicans deserved to lose both elections” Now a year later this phony is saying what we said all along, to rewrite HIS history.
Last night FNC the ‘RNC/GWB/McCain bootlicker’ Hannity said “Republicans deserved to lose both elections” Now a year later this phony is saying what we said all along, to rewrite HIS history.
Hwnnity!!! Was this guy responsible for this Steele RINO being in our Midst?
Hwnnity = Hannity
Hannity is one of the biggest phonies I have ever seen. He is Anti-democrat, but that’s all he is good for. Never trust him on any republicans, he will say anything. I guess he is a neo-con ( nation building and impose democracy) like Levin, but outside of that, all bets are off.
We need some sort of a grading system for these people with the Constitution as a base line.
I dont know if you listen to these two but they ‘talk capitalism’ and ‘talk constitution’ and ‘talk small government’ at the same time they push the big military neo-con 'nation rebuild and force democracy', and they justify GWB deficits with moronic logic. They were caught flat on the great Bush economy and had to re-write their historical positions last fall.
What is scary is that they beat the patriotic military drum every day, like GWB in 2002, convincing the audience that anyone questioning their contradictory positions, is a traitor or democrat appeaser. Many of their drones are here, and will swarm in on a post about them , on the attack. Example, “You are alive today to speak because of me and GWB, so shut up!”
GW did More to bring this place down than any enemy could dream of doing.. His ostrich act was the best to date also.
RE :”His ostrich act was the best to date also. “
100% true, every so often GWB pops up to rub salt in my wounds, and I give more bait to the Bush-bots who tell me he single-handedly stopped Saddam from dropping a nuke on my house (yes, right!)
The amount of destruction he did is unfathomable The government employment growth in Percentage past the private sector and his Czars numbered the same as Zeros.
The argument that "Bush kept us safe" is a non-starter.
The number of Americans killed or injured as a consequence of the actions of illegal aliens in the United States far outstrips U.S. losses on September 11 and in both Afghanistan and Iraq. The damage to property, as well as the lasting damage to American society on the whole, is beyond words.
Yet, die-hard Bush supporters will continue to bleat that "Bush kept us safe," as if conducting foreign military interventions (and, heck, waging politically correct wars) while leaving the back door wide open largely unguarded is anything but derilection of Bush's duty as head of the executive branch of the Federal government to uphold and support the Constitution, including all valid laws passed under it, and to maintain a defense against invasions, and to guarantee to each State a "republican form of government."
It stuns me that there are still people who defend Bush as a conservative. In addition to the illegal immigration debacle and the politically correct wars (we haven’t caught bin Laden and those WMDs are nowhere to be found), there was Medicare Part D, No Child Left Behind, and the good old TSA.
RE :”It stuns me that there are still people who defend Bush as a conservative. “
Neocon (Bush, McCain) drumbeat still beats loud and the sheep still follow.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2351753/posts?page=24#24
Neocon (Bush, McCain) drumbeat still beats loud and the sheep still follow.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2351753/posts?page=24#24 “
The Political capitol he wasted after 9/11 could have been used to set this country right for the next 50 years but ole W wasted it every bit then some.
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