Resolution: Congressmen Should Live Under Health Care Plan They Create
Rep. John Fleming (R-LA)
Have you noticed how the socialist elitists running the American government love to force their ideas on you while not having to personally live with the consequences of those ideas themselves?
The socialized health care plan being debated in congress right now is no exception. They want to force Americans into their inefficient, costly, freedom-robbing plan while they continue living high on the taxpayer-funded hog of a different plan.
President Obama has even told us that if someone in his family needs better health care than is available under the government plan, that–unlike the Americans he will force to live under this–he will do what he has to in order to get them the best care possible.
But Rep. John Flemming (R-LA) proposes to make all the animals on the “Animal Farm” truly equal. He has proposed HR 615 which says
Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that Members who vote in favor of the establishment of a public, federal government run health insurance option are urged to forgo their right to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and agree to enroll under that public option.
As Rep. Fleming says, “If it’s so great for the rest of America, why can’t congress be a part of it as well?”
He has 43 Republican co-sponsors,yet despite reaching out to Democrats to sign on, not a single Democrat has joined as a sponsor. What’s good for the goose is apparently not at all acceptable to the gander.
He says that if Members of Congress believe so strongly that government-run health care is the best solution for hard working American families,it’s only fitting that Americans see them lead the way. Public servants should always be accountable and responsible for what they advocate and pass for the public, so they should have to live with the consequences, too.
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