Dude?!? Where's my health-care???

Tea Party Congressman Elect Asks What's Taking His Government Health Care So Long

It was noted, often with irony, that a large number of the people that would show up for Tea Party rallies denouncing government health care reform as a form of socialism were older, and often on Medicare or Medicaid. The "health care for me, but no one else deserves it" theme pushed all through the election, inspiring many who showed up at the polls and voted in the new, ultra-conservative House members that will soon be seated.

But now the very Tea Party candidates who ran against government health care are starting to complain. But this time, they are asking why their own government health care plans aren't kicking in fast enough. A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in.

Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank Kratovil on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, reacted incredulously when informed that federal law mandated that his government-subsidized health care policy would take effect on Feb. 1 – 28 days after his Jan. 3rd swearing-in.

“He stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care,” said a congressional staffer who saw the exchange. The benefits session, held behind closed doors, drew about 250 freshman members, staffers and family members to the Capitol Visitors Center auditorium late Monday morning,”. “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 Harris’s request and the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine.

http://www.care2.com/causes/health-poli ... e-so-long/


You can't make this stuff up....

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This is LOL.

Oh, yeah, some emoticons would be good.

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I think that's legitimate question. Why does it take 28 days for the government insurance to kick in? Especially when the government runs the program?

Funny, the libtards are celebrating that a member of Congress could be uninsured for one month. Why we can't have any Americans uninsured! What would happen if he gets run over by a donkey and needs medical attention? Who's gonna pay?

residenttroll wrote: I think that's legitimate question. Why does it take 28 days for the government insurance to kick in? Especially when the government runs the program?

Funny, the libtards are celebrating that a member of Congress could be uninsured for one month. Why we can't have any Americans uninsured! What would happen if he gets run over by a donkey and needs medical attention? Who's gonna pay?

Exactly......this guy is worried about going 28 days without insurance, but could not care less that millions of people in the US go years without insurance. And...he is opposed to the very bill that would offer insurance to many of those very same people. Hypocrite, he wants his but doesn't care if anyone else gets theirs. How typically conservative of him.

I doubt he was worried about his coverage - more worried about the bureaucracy ...but keep smoking that MMJ.

One more example of the goverment being worse than private industry. Where I work, your health insurance starts on your first day.

residenttroll wrote: but keep smoking that MMJ.

I wish I could, it might help. By the time this Republican State of AZ figures out how to administer their new mmj law I won't need it (I hope). The Republican run gov't of AZ was so sure that the law would not pass they declined to make any preparations, now they get to scramble to put something in place. Old chinese proverb: "never assume you know what the voters will do". Ok, maybe it's not a proverb, but it should be....and one conservatives should learn.

Where I work, you have probationary period of of 30 days (full time) before you are qualified for insurance.

Since they aren't technically sworn in until January 3rd, and the new Congress doesn't convene until January 21st, 2011, making the poor hypocritical baby wait another 11 days is soooooo rude!

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