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GOP frosh: Where's my health care? (28 day wait for gubmint coverage)
Politico ^
| 1/16/10
| GLENN THRUSH
Posted on 11/16/2010 9:40:40 AM PST by Libloather
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If I ever ran for office, my campaign slogan would be: Elect me so my family and I can be exempt from Commiecare!
To: Libloather
Harris then asked if he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap, added the aide, who was struck by the similarity to Harriss request and the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine. Federal employees health insurance is a far cry from the "public option." You choose from a list of private insurers.
Politico looking to trash a Republican. As usual.
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:46:17 AM PST
by
freespirited
(This tagline dedicated to the memory of John Armor, a/k/a Congressman Billybob.)
To: Libloather
What a goof. Total idiot. We have some clear dumb freaks we elect. How hypocritical can you be. I don’t believe for one moment that he is a conservative Republican....a conservative Republican would not be this stupid. Being from Maryland, at best he is a RINO.
To: Libloather
Andy Harris, tone deaf moron?
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:47:21 AM PST
by
TaxMe
To: napscoordinator
No, the guy he beat last time was a RINO. Harris is a conservative.
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:48:48 AM PST
by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
To: napscoordinator
Because of the obvious political sensitivity of asking a question like this in a “general Q&A” (welcome to the fishbowl, frosh) he ought to have had a staffer sniff out the question in more confidential quarters.
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:51:12 AM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(I am in America but not of America (per bible: am in the world but not of it))
To: Libloather
Join the real world pal.
Many of us have a 3-6 month wait before our employer’s plans kick in.
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:51:23 AM PST
by
earlJam
To: darkangel82
I believe you 100 percent but why be so stupid to be against government health care and then demand government health care? It just seems so sloppy a thing to do right out the gate. He could have been more discreet about this.
To: darkangel82; napscoordinator
What a goof. Total idiot. We have some clear dumb freaks we elect. How hypocritical can you be. I dont believe for one moment that he is a conservative Republican..LOL. Darkangel knows he's a conservative because he beat a RINO.
Who do you believe naps, darkangel or your lying eyes!?
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:51:32 AM PST
by
sam_paine
(X .................................)
To: Libloather
i kinda think thi is funny. here he is physician and he is moving from private prctice into public service and he is asking why he has to wait 28 days for his benefits to go into effect. It is interesting in that many of the positions I have had in working in medical care insurance is covered immediately of 30 dyas after employment. but i have TRI CARE through the militaryservice and I do nothave to accept the medical insurance. I think he is only try to stress a point about health insurance. But when leaving maryland he can utilize his COBRA insurance to cover his butt for the 28 days. really it is not far for him to travel back to Maryland if he needs medical care. i also think he has enough money to pay for his medical needs.
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:52:39 AM PST
by
hondact200
( Lincoln Freed the Enslaved. Obama Enslaves the Free. Obama is Americas Greatest Threat)
To: earlJam
Yep. Always been 90 days here.
Prevents fraud.
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posted on
11/16/2010 9:55:41 AM PST
by
ltc8k6
To: sam_paine
I guess you need to keep reading and find out.....think of it as a cliffhanger.
To: napscoordinator
Articles should kick in immediately. We shouldn’t have to spend 28 seconds reading them.
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posted on
11/16/2010 10:03:21 AM PST
by
agere_contra
(...what if we won't eat the dog food?)
To: freespirited
but there is no “public option”. That got taken out of the Obamacare bill.
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posted on
11/16/2010 10:04:17 AM PST
by
ChurtleDawg
(voting only encourages them)
To: Libloather
Another anonymous source story from the lefty Politico trashing a Repub. So what’s new.
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posted on
11/16/2010 10:05:48 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
To: Libloather
I fail to see how Dr. Harris’ asking if he could purchase stopgap insurance until the regular insurance kicks in is a “gateway to national socialist medicine.” Many people who switch jobs run into this same problem, and we usually pay for a month or so of insurance from our previous employers to cover the gap.
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posted on
11/16/2010 10:06:14 AM PST
by
pnh102
(Regarding liberalism, always attribute to malice what you think can be explained by stupidity. - Me)
To: freespirited
Of course Politico and the Dem staffer who leaked from a private meeting are pretending that this new Rep is demanding Obamacare right now! LOL
And of course there are Freepers carrying MSM/DNC water as usual.
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posted on
11/16/2010 10:07:27 AM PST
by
roses of sharon
(I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
To: Libloather
Nix said Harris, who is the father of five, wasnt being hypocritical he was just pointing out the inefficiency of government-run health care. That's the quote that should have been excerpted. Although it was clear to me from the start of the article that they guy was making a point of how government didn't do anything better, and it was absurd to count on the government to run health care.
When's the last time you heard a story about how responsive a government agency was? On a walk last week, one liberal regaled us about his 6-months struggle to get some answer from the government about something, how they had a web site for inquiries that was never answered or updated, and it was just funny thinking about that same group running our health care system.
To: roses of sharon
And of course there are Freepers carrying MSM/DNC water as usual. They haven't learned anything from the Bush story of last week or so. That was an anonymous source too. But if the left says it, anonymous or not, it HAS to be true! LOL
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posted on
11/16/2010 10:10:22 AM PST
by
DJ MacWoW
(If Bam is the answer, the question was stupid.)
To: pnh102
I fail to see how Dr. Harris asking if he could purchase stopgap insurance until the regular insurance kicks in is a gateway to national socialist medicine. Many people who switch jobs run into this same problem, and we usually pay for a month or so of insurance from our previous employers to cover the gap.
I agree. From a political perspective, he should have pulled the presenter aside afterward and asked the question privately - and this shows a certain level of political tone-deafness. However he IS, asking about the terms of his employer-based coverage. Just happens that his employer is the US Taxpayer via the US Congress.
I don't recall stripping Federal employees - including Members of Congress - of their health care insurance being an issue in the campaign. Let alone one that swept the GOP back into power. Or did I miss something?
I think the big issue here is that once he's a Member of Congress he's covered by the various rules banning gifts and such. So he probably can't continue his Johns-Hopkins coverage because that constitute a gift. So, in the practical sense, his question is appropriate.
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