New GOP rep demands his government health care

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

take a look a Jesse Jackson's bastard child that no one ever mentions.

Whether we agree with Riot's take on whether Mr. Harris's actions constitute hypocrisy or not, I'm sure we can ALL agree that dellinger63 makes his typical insightful and extremely relevant point here.




Personally, I'm not so sure Mr. Harris's actions do constitute what Riot calls "blind hypocrisy." I assume that most people who opposed health care reform still wanted those people actually employed by the government to receive their health care - in one way or another - from the government. I did not agree with those who opposed health reform, but wasn't their basic argument for retaining employer-based health care? If the government is a person's employer (as is now the case with Mr. Harris) then doesn't almost everyone on all sides of the debate agree that the government should provide him with health insurance in some form?
I thought that the opponents of health care reform said a lot of crazy things during the debate over health care, but I don't remember them saying that people who actually work for the government should stop getting their health care through them.