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Ian David

(69,059 posts)
Tue May 1, 2012, 08:28 AM May 2012

Scott Brown acknowledges using part of health care law he wants to repeal

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 Obama’s 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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http://www.boston.com/news/politics/articles/2012/05/01/scott_brown_acknowledges_using_part_of_health_care_law_he_wants_to_repeal/

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Scott Brown acknowledges using part of health care law he wants to repeal (Original Post) Ian David May 2012 OP
Yeah right - typical rePIG hypocrite mazzarro May 2012 #1
Just another GOP hypocrite Atman May 2012 #2
Just another two faced politican...the republican party is full of them.. Tippy May 2012 #3
Paging Mr. Warren Buffett marshall May 2012 #21
And this is supposed to surprise me how? skydive forever May 2012 #4
The Teabagger Republican Credo: peace frog May 2012 #5
“Of course I do,’’ Brown said. FailureToCommunicate May 2012 #6
Why does Scott Brown hate Proud Liberal Dem May 2012 #7
More "Do as I say, not as I do" from a rethuglican. nt valerief May 2012 #8
Why don't you just lend her the money so she can buy her own healthcare... LynneSin May 2012 #9
you know most parents have 20 thou laying around Skittles May 2012 #15
Its like Paul Ryan's plan Iliyah May 2012 #10
I still think.... ut oh May 2012 #11
They don't have a Cadillac plan proud2BlibKansan May 2012 #12
I have that plan Alcibiades May 2012 #18
My family had it when I was growing up proud2BlibKansan May 2012 #19
What we have now is still pretty darn good Alcibiades May 2012 #22
Scott lives in Repuke Land, States can/will not mandate that kind of coverage for young adults. CarmanK May 2012 #13
All right Elizabeth Warren, here's your chance! Crowman1979 May 2012 #14
Another republican pig. AlinPA May 2012 #16
But Congress exempted themselves from Obamacare, or so the GOP kept claiming...... YewNork May 2012 #17
Brown: Complicit in Obamacare health care takeover! Zambero May 2012 #20

mazzarro

(3,450 posts)
1. Yeah right - typical rePIG hypocrite
Tue May 1, 2012, 08:31 AM
May 2012

They will always find some justification for taking advantage of whatever they claim to oppose anyway. No moral principle!

marshall

(6,661 posts)
21. Paging Mr. Warren Buffett
Wed May 2, 2012, 05:59 PM
May 2012

I think it's only fair that if Brown can insure his daughter, Buffett gets to pay as much taxes as he wants to.

peace frog

(5,609 posts)
5. The Teabagger Republican Credo:
Tue May 1, 2012, 11:00 AM
May 2012

"Good for me but not for thee. Now get your noses back to the grindstone, you lazy Democrat dock monkeys."

Proud Liberal Dem

(24,355 posts)
7. Why does Scott Brown hate
Tue May 1, 2012, 12:12 PM
May 2012

the "free market" that he and the rest of his party hold up as the height of human achievement?

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
9. Why don't you just lend her the money so she can buy her own healthcare...
Tue May 1, 2012, 12:42 PM
May 2012

that's what Mitt Romney wants you to do!

Skittles

(152,964 posts)
15. you know most parents have 20 thou laying around
Tue May 1, 2012, 09:37 PM
May 2012

they're just waiting for their kids to ask for it, LynneSin!

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
10. Its like Paul Ryan's plan
Tue May 1, 2012, 01:06 PM
May 2012

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)
11. I still think....
Tue May 1, 2012, 02:23 PM
May 2012

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)
12. They don't have a Cadillac plan
Tue May 1, 2012, 04:17 PM
May 2012

Members of Congress have the same choice of plans as all federal govt workers.

Alcibiades

(5,061 posts)
18. I have that plan
Wed May 2, 2012, 02:39 PM
May 2012

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)
19. My family had it when I was growing up
Wed May 2, 2012, 03:59 PM
May 2012

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)
22. What we have now is still pretty darn good
Wed May 2, 2012, 06:57 PM
May 2012

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)
13. Scott lives in Repuke Land, States can/will not mandate that kind of coverage for young adults.
Tue May 1, 2012, 05:08 PM
May 2012

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.

YewNork

(461 posts)
17. But Congress exempted themselves from Obamacare, or so the GOP kept claiming......
Wed May 2, 2012, 10:26 AM
May 2012

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)
20. Brown: Complicit in Obamacare health care takeover!
Wed May 2, 2012, 04:19 PM
May 2012

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.

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