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Obamacare: If Congress Passes It, Let Them Live Under It

Hattip to Robert Stacy McCain at The Other McCain.  Rep. John Fleming (R. LA.) is the sponsor of House Resolution 615 which states that in the event National Health Care passes, all members of Congress who vote for it are urged to receive their health insurance under it.  This sounds like a very good idea to me.  If it is good enough for voters it should be good enough for CongressCritters.  Of course urging isn’t enough.  They should be required to be subject to Obamacare if it passes.  Here is the text of the resolution.

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Morning's Minion
Friday, July 24, AD 2009 10:40pm

I agree. why not? I suspect most people pushing this line really don’t understand the reforms.

G-Veg
G-Veg
Saturday, July 25, AD 2009 7:01am

One of the things that I find striking is that the stealth inclusion of FOCA in some of the House drafts has received so little attention.

I received an urgent Knights of Columbus e-mail alert about it and confirmed with my Congressman’s office that the inclusion is true but none of the media outlets, including Fox, are carrying anything about it. Even the Catholic websites and blogs have been largely silent.

I suspect that, if FOCA had made it out of a committe on its own, we would have been up in arms… you know, as Catholics and all. Shoving into the text of an healthcare draft though warrants not even a remark.

What gives?

Art Deco
Art Deco
Saturday, July 25, AD 2009 7:46am

I agree. why not? I suspect most people pushing this line really don’t understand the reforms.

Bill’s only 1,000 pages long. What’s not to understand?

G-Veg
G-Veg
Saturday, July 25, AD 2009 7:54am

Is it even a bill yet?

As best I can tell, there are at least 5 much smaller proposals that have yet to be incorporated into a single bill. I don’t know what the Speaker is expecting to vote on by Friday, but it doesn’t sound like they have gotten beyond the committee markup stage.

largebill
Saturday, July 25, AD 2009 9:15am

Nice idea, but the amendment has no chance of passage. Sort of like how congress will write workplace rules and then exempt themselves. Best analogy to this I can think of is food. Consider congress a pushy chef who is insisting you pay for and eat his new concoction but when you ask him how it tasted when he tried it the chef says “Are you nuts? I wouldn’t eat this crap and definitely won’t pay for it.”

c matt
c matt
Wednesday, July 29, AD 2009 4:36pm

Why stop at Congress – shouldn’t the President who signs it also be subjected to it? I would love to see in one of these O press conferences someone challenge the President to give his oath that if O’care passes, and he signs it, he will take the public option.

c matt
c matt
Wednesday, July 29, AD 2009 4:37pm

Sort of a “poison pill” provision, eh?

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