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Part of the original plan for the Affordable Care Act was, as I recall, to require members of Congress to use the government-run marketplaces. Congress refused.
by lobster_johnson 10y ago
Part of the original plan for the Affordable Care Act was, as I recall, to require members of Congress to use the government-run marketplaces. Congress refused. Not surprising -- they probably have the best health insurance in the US.
If Congress were forced to "dogfood" the health system the way ordinary people experience it, I suspect Republicans would be falling over themselves to enact a single payer system.
- cmurf 10y agoYes but Republicans do everything they can to avoid government doing anything; or make it work badly on purpose whenever they can't prevent it, because government that works better than the free market is incompatible with their narrative that the government sucks and can't do anything right except blow people up on the other side of the world.
- jack9 10y agoRidiculous healthcare is one of the perks for govt officials. Any one of the Congress people or Executive administrators can get a full body scan on a whim (e.g. it was all the rage in washington during the first bush administration through the second bush terms). You get a clean bill of health for your campaign, or you get whatever you find, treated and maybe get well enough for the next campaign cycle.