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Scott Brown acknowledges using part of health care law he wants to repeal
Brown says daughter, 23, insured under health law
Senator Scott Brown, who won office vowing to be the 41st vote to block President Obamas health care law, and who has since voted three times to repeal it, acknowledged Monday that he takes advantage of one of its components to keep his elder daughter on his congressional health insurance plan. Of course I do, Brown said. He said that element of the law, which has proven widely popular despite a split over the broader measure, can be provided by states
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mazzarro
(3,450 posts)They will always find some justification for taking advantage of whatever they claim to oppose anyway. No moral principle!
Atman
(31,464 posts)Nothing to see here, move along.
Tippy
(4,610 posts)marshall
(6,661 posts)I think it's only fair that if Brown can insure his daughter, Buffett gets to pay as much taxes as he wants to.
skydive forever
(443 posts)peace frog
(5,609 posts)"Good for me but not for thee. Now get your noses back to the grindstone, you lazy Democrat dock monkeys."
FailureToCommunicate
(13,989 posts)Hypocrite.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)the "free market" that he and the rest of his party hold up as the height of human achievement?
valerief
(53,235 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)that's what Mitt Romney wants you to do!
Skittles
(152,964 posts)they're just waiting for their kids to ask for it, LynneSin!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)I got mine so f**k you!
We as tax payers are paying for these assholes' health coverage, ie Dickie's new heart, et al.,
But what about little old me? Nope, I guess I don't deserve that privilege.
ut oh
(873 posts)that we need to remove Congress' Cadillac insurance program and make them join a program that the rest of us get... They might actually do some good then.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)Members of Congress have the same choice of plans as all federal govt workers.
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)Well, one of the options. The sad fact is that, compared to what most employees of private companies get, it's amazing.
What's fucked up is that what the GOP wants to do is to drag the coverage of government workers down to the pitiful coverage provided at most private employers, rather than improve the coverage those employees get. It's the same story all the time: if a rich man has a gold-plated toilet, it's OK, because he's a "job creator" and has earned it. If a middle class family has anything at all, it's an outrage, because they should be stripped down to below a subsistance level.
proud2BlibKansan
(96,793 posts)My mom worked for a federal contractor who was able to hook into the same plan as federal workers. It was incredibly great insurance. But that same coverage is no longer available.
Alcibiades
(5,061 posts)No copays once we meet the deductible, really cheap meds, most visits $20, $30 for a specialist. With a family with young children, it all adds up, but compared with folks who work at places like Wal-Mart, I thank our lucky stars.
CarmanK
(662 posts)The most egregious of the states of course are in the South where ppl lives are cheap and women's lives are cheapest of all. TN-let the house burn if you haven't paid the fee, GA-let the teens die and be brutalized by the private prison freaks. Children who do wrong must pay. FL look the other way. The man who makes millions, stealing millions more from Medicare is elected governor and then cuts programs that protect children from hunger and homelessness. And of course, in LA, BP is just ridding high, while the ppl of the GULf are suffering from the worst oil spill in our nation's history and more damaging than Exxon-Valdez. At least the shrimp aren't blind and born with no eyes in Alaska. Scientists predict that more damage is coming in the years ahead.
Crowman1979
(3,844 posts)Time to go for the jugular on this next attack ad.
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)YewNork
(461 posts)So how is Brown using it to cover his daughter, if it the law doesn't apply to Congress.
Of course, this proves that Congress was NOT exempted from the law, at least not in the way that the GOP wanted you to believe that they were (ie. that you'd have to obey it, but it didn't apply to them).
They just wanted people to think that Congress was totally exempting themselves from the law.
Zambero
(8,954 posts)What's next to top that one? Accepting a campaign contribution from the N.Y Yankees perhaps? Oh, so it's aleady been done? Good Gawd! Welcome to the U.S. Senate, Elizabeth Warren.