[ale] OT- that thread again. One last word.

Jeff Hubbs jhubbslist at att.net
Sat Oct 24 12:43:47 EDT 2009


The thrust of their amendment is, like it says:  "it seems reasonable 
that Members of Congress should have exactly the same medical coverage 
that they impose on the rest of us."  The disingenuous part is that what 
actually should be happening is that the "rest of us" should have health 
insurance more like what Congressmen and other Federal employees already 
get.  Don't get me wrong - FEHPB isn't all heaven and joy, but it's 
immeasurably more humane than what most people face.


wylde bill wrote:
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> Which puts congressman Fleming and his staff, along the rest of
> congress, into the same boat congress might choose to put the rest of us
> in is being a disingenuous jerk.  That is to say, that if we don't get
> all those goodies you described earlier, they and their staffs don't
> either.
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> It would seem that this bill would remove all those nice things from
> congress & co. if they imposed anything less on the rest of us.  Of
> course, I voted "yea" on a bill that was worded to imply that such a
> vote would grant the legislature the power to enable citizens to bring
> suit against the state and it's minions- not knowing we already had such
> a power in this state.  Of course, the State government promptly
> legislated themselves free of any and all civil liability for their 
> actions- so I'm sure there could be more here than meets the eye.
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