Vote to remove Congress Members' Free Health Care Benefits until all U.S. citizens have Health Care

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Poll question: Vote to remove Congress Members' Free Health Care Benefits until all U.S. citizens have Health Care

We The People pay for it. They take advantage of it.

They sit in committee and LAUGH at doctors and healthcare workers speaking up for the Public Heath option that's left "Off The Table."

Would you vote to remove Congress Members' Free Health Care Benefits until all U.S. citizens have Health Care?

[Ninga]

1. Bumper sticker???? n/t

[omega minimo]

4. End Congressional Welfare

As We Pay For It

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2. let them pay for private insurance

if they can get it.

[DJ13]

3. They can afford to buy health care

I think its time we stop accepting that those in power "deserve" more than they think the rest of us deserve.

[FLDCVADem]

5. Unless something has changed very recently...

...members of Congress don't have free health care. They buy into the same plan(s) as all Federal employees. Highly subsidized, yes. Free, no.

[texasleo]

8. Sweet. I'll take one.

[omega minimo]

10. Exactly!!

[Coyote_Bandit]

6. It is unspeakably cruel

to require a hungry malnourished person to accompany you to a fine resturant and then be compelled to watch you eat and to pick up your tab while they are unable to even eat your crumbs.

That is exactly what ccurs when taxpayers who do not have access to health care subsidize health care for politicians (and others).

[classysassy]

13. Thats

what happens when you let the crooks make the laws.

[cali]

7. I don't see the point in voting in fantasy polls.

[omega minimo]

11. Exactly!!

[Wednesdays]

9. K&R

:kick:

[omega minimo]

12. Thanks for everything, Wednesdays.

:toast:

[PHIMG]

14. They can afford to buy a policy for thier family on the open market

And we want HEALTHCARE not more private health insurance.

It's time for Single Payer. Medicare for All. Lets' get rid of the private insurer middle man, thier waste and thier CORRUPTION.

Bloody Hands. Private Insurers make self-interested and arbitrary claim and coverage denials relegating many to premature death.

Restrict Choice. Private Insurers restrict medical consumers’ choice in medical providers, inhibiting the proper function of the free market in medical services and enabling bad providers to thrive.

Adds Complexity. Over 1,200 Private Insurance bureaucracies complicate and impede the practice of medicine with differing and often conflicting billing and administrative policies.

Drains Resources. Nearly 30% of the healthcare spending funneled through health insurance middlemen is wasted on profit taking, underwriting, executive compensation and other unnecessary expense and waste.

Squanders Expertise. Our current health care model diverts providers' attention from "how to heal" to "how to get compensated" by the shameless insurers.

Manipulates the Media. Private Insurers exert a level of editorial control over the media via advertising purchases. Corrupts Our Politics. Private Insurers manipulate elected officials with campaign donations, plum corporate jobs, and an army of lobbyists.

Brainwashes the Populace. Private Insurers use paid media to lie directly to the populace, leveraging fear tactics and other highly sophisticated propaganda campaigns in order to evade accountability for the consequences of their actions and protect the status quo.

Restricts Debate. Private Insurers’ media and political operatives dishonestly malign genuine reform as “politically infeasible” in order to limit the debate to industry-blessed half measures.

Private Health Insurance Must Go! Reform proposals that do not remove private insurers from our healthcare system are morally unacceptable, fiscally irresponsible, and unsustainable even in the near term. These “mandate and subsidize” proposals are not well meaning attempts at realism by so-called centrists. They are a sinister attempt to marginalize the opportunity our country has at this defining moment to sideline the private insurers and move to a healthcare system that works – publicly funded and privately provided Medicare for all, as implemented in HR 676 – The United States National Health Care Act.

[omega minimo]

15. Must see video, Tony Benn from SICKO

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3HyK5rB9jY

[pleah]

16. K&R Hell yeah.