Author Topic: Baffled by Health Plan? (amusing unintended consequence alert)  (Read 2421 times)

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Offline bijou

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...In a new report, the Congressional Research Service says the law may have significant unintended consequences for the “personal health insurance coverage” of senators, representatives and their staff members.

For example, it says, the law may “remove members of Congress and Congressional staff” from their current coverage, in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, before any alternatives are available....
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/us/politics/13health.html?partner=rss&emc=rss



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Re: Baffled by Health Plan? (amusing unintended consequence alert)
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2010, 09:00:57 AM »
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/us/politics/13health.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

In my best Monty Burns I would like to say "Excellent" But lets face facts, here is what will happen:






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Re: Baffled by Health Plan? (amusing unintended consequence alert)
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2010, 09:13:55 AM »
"We have to pass the bill to find out what's in it", Nancy POO-lousy.

...and now the tweaking of the bill begins and thing will go down hill from there.
“The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” - Norman Thomas, U.S. Socialist Party presidential candidate 1940, 1944 and 1948

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