Ooops.

The Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan is, from all reports, an excellent menu of choices. It offers multiple private insurance plans in each state, ranging from fee for service plans like Blue Cross/Blue Shield to various levels of HMO type coverage. Low cost options, high cost options.

It’s obviously desireable for insurance companies to make competitive proposals and get included in the offerings, since the program has eight million particpants.

Here’s the irony. The centerpiece of Hillary Clinton’s health care proposal was to open up these plans for purchase by any individual or employer in the United States. So, if you lived in South Carolina and needed to purchase insurance as an individual or as a small business for your employees, you could simply join this pool and purchase any of the options avaiable in South Carolina under the Federal plan.

It was politically astute for exactly the same reasons Grassley’s admendment was political poision. How could a member of Congress vote not to offer his or her constituents the sam insurance plan Congress gets?

So, I guess they try to find a way to fix it . . . again. When you have idiots running the asylum, this is what you get. This would make a great campaign theme.

It couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of idiots.

from Congress. So they can join their constituents in delayed implementation of insurance exchanges to 2014. Wow.

This lovely Health Care bill reminds me of the classic Tarzanmovie with the quicksand trap and boa constrictor. Only this time we find congressional constrictors caught up with us in the murky trap, without a Johnny Wiesmuller.

The GOP folks, looking to protect “their” staffers will play along and cause no waves.

I’m a lefty-lurker who was pleased by HCR passage. But this is great. I’m also self-employed and get my coverage through a business association. I’m happy to hear that congress-critters will be in the same lot as I’ve been cast into.

Posted this last night.

ObamaCare: Karma, It’s Whats For Breakfast

should have had health care coverage until health care reform was passed anyway. They should have been denied coverage like the rest of us until they passed a law that gave the us health coverage. Republican and Democratic lawmakers have had access to government-run health care for decades! We should have had access to the same! And if they’d been denied coverage forever, then we’d have had proper health care reform in the 60s!

I guess this is what SHE meant by
“you’ll find out what is in it once it’s passed”

And The Prez said, “you will love it once you have it”.

Are they going to have to sleep in the bed they made?

I doubt it.
The slimy eels will just slither their way back to the land of “milk and honey”

So just what, exactly, are such incompetents doing writing and passing legislation, in the first place?

Vote them ALL out…

and this couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of folks!

Was this an evil trick by Karl Rove? Or done purposefully by Rahm Emanuel?

If this is “fixed,” the left can then say, hey, there are also a few more small little fixes. If the bill is fixed even just to get staffers decent health care, the precedent will have been set, and the left will push the “fix it-don’t repeal it” avenue.

I thought we wanted this from our Legislators. If they are going to shove a program into our faces, then they should also be required to use the same program.

I realize that this may not apply to the Representatives themselves, but their staff should be furious with them. I’d like to know which staffer for which Rep included the language… It would make for an interesting discussion.

and He has a sence of humor!

“Congressional Democrats have managed to thoroughly muck up Congress’ own health care coverage, particularly for new hires” which means that those already in still have the Cadillac version it is just the new hires or elected that will have the same coverage foisted upon the rest of us, once again they exclude themselves from what they say the public must do.
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