Freshman GOPer: Hey, Where's My Health Care?

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http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/freshman-goper-hey-wheres-my-health-care.php?ref=fpa

Maryland physician Andy Harris (R) just soundly defeated Frank Kratovil, one of the most endangered Democrats on Capitol Hill going into the November election. And he did it in large part by railing against 'Obamacare' and pledging to repeal Health Care Reform. But when he showed on Capitol Hill today for an orientation for incoming members of Congress and their staffs, he had a different question: Where's my government health care?

According to Glenn Thrush of Politico, Harris created a stir at the orientation meeting by demanding to know why he had to wait a month after he was sworn in in January for his government-subsidized health care to kick in. After responding in a huff, he even asked if there was some way he could buy into the government care in advance, seemingly thinking there might be a government program similar to the so-called 'public option' championed by progressive Democrats in 2009.

( http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45181.html )

According to an unnamed congressional staffer quoted by Thrush, Harris stood up at the meeting "and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care."

During the campaign, Harris told voters, "the answer to the ever-rising cost of insurance is not the expansion of government-run or government-mandated insurance but, instead, common-sense market based solutions that ensure decisions are made by patients and their doctors."


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1. Oh that is good...

specially since that ass is now my Rep. :rofl: BTW Kratovil wasn't much better. As he voted against HCR he had the nerve to complain that his Federal Health Ins. wasn't near as good as the State Health Ins. he had as a prosecutor. I really need to move from Ceciltucky.

[struggle4progress]

2. Physician, heal thyself

[KingFlorez]

3. Pay for it yourself

He has got some nerve. He fights so that all the rest of us can't have health care, but fights for himself to get reasonable coverage on the government dime. That makes sense.

[Angry Dragon]

10. he has no sense, he is just a pig

[Historic NY]

13. or at least barter with some chickens.

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. Irony.... and I am almost positive he don't know how to

spell the word.

[toddwv]

5. Why do they even get healthcare?

It's not like Congress is a full-time job...

[proud2BlibKansan]

6. What an ass.

[somone]

7. Damn socialists

[LiberalAndProud]

8. Oh dear!

Andy, COBRA is your answer. It's what the rest of us have to rely on, after all. Can you say FreeLoader? I knew you could.

[Newsjock]

9. Y'know, if we had a decent political machine of any size

Our side would have ads on the TV in Maryland starting tomorrow: "Call Andy Harris, and let him know that hypocrisy over health care is not a Maryland value."

[kestrel91316]

11. He can have all the healthcare he wants. He just can't have INSURANCE

for 28 days. WTF is he whining about??? He can damned well pay 100% of his medical costs in the meantime, just like millions of Americans have to do all the time with NO hope of insurance.

[tpsbmam]

12. Damn....I can only rec this once!! Priceless. n/t

[elleng]

14. JERK!

Won't get his first pay check for few weeks, either! Think he knows he'll have to select a 'plan,' and contribute to premium?

Sure glad he's not mine!

[Mimosa]

15. Damned Repiglican vultures. n't

[Dyler Turden]

16. Hypocricy, thy name is Teabagger,

or Republican. :)

[pacalo]

17. "I've got mine -- & if I don't have it now, by God I'll see that I do -- screw those who haven't."

Bookmarking for including in any future letters to congress regarding health care for us lowly minions.

[area51]

18. Fscking assclown.

He wails, "what will I do without 28 days of health care".

Well, he can go ahead & die as so many people do, since we have no right to health care in this barbaric country.

Each day, 273 people die due to lack of health care in the U.S.; that's 100,000 deaths per year.

We need single-payer health care, not a welfare bailout for the serial-killer insurance agencies.

We don't need the GingrichCare of mandated, unregulated, for-profit insurance that is still too expensive, only pays parts of medical bills, denies claims, bankrupts and kills people.

Republinazi '93 plan:

"Subtitle F: Universal Coverage - Requires each citizen or lawful permanent resident to be covered under a qualified health plan or equivalent health care program by January 1, 2005."

"We will never have real reform until people's health stops being treated as a financial opportunity for corporations."

"Any proposal that sticks with our current dependence on for-profit private insurers ... will not be sustainable. And the new law will not get us to universal coverage ...." -- T.R. Reid, The Healing of America

[Canuckistanian]

19. Oops

Boy, is his face red.

Oh, wait, he's a Republican. They have no shame.

[Renew Deal]

20. Why does he have to wait 28 days for health care?

That doesn't make sense. Any decent job gives it to their employees right away.

[progressoid]

21. Holy Fuck

[Urban Prairie]

22. Wow..a whole 28 days to wait before he gets his health care coverage subsidy.

Most companies that I worked for, as well as the federal government, made me wait at least 90 days while being treated as a "probationary" employee, before I could choose and obtain their health care providers' coverages, that is, IF any were offered...

Oh wait, I wasn't "voted" into my jobs, I had to apply for them, and then hope that I would do well enough to avoid being released before my 90 days were up, which also meant that I could not come in late to work for any reason, or call in sick.

[Vickers]

23. I'd gladly wait 4 weeks for FREE health care. n/t

[Buns_of_Fire]

24. By all means, drop poor, poor Andy a note and let him know what you think...

http://andyharris.com/contact/

[LeftishBrit]

25. 'What would he do without 28 days of health care?'

Then why does he seek permanently to deprive so many others of health care?

Why do people vote for such slime? (says she in a constituency that just voted for a Tory MP, and right next door to the one that David Cameron represents - but even he isn't QUITE as bad as this bloke sounds!)

[eppur_se_muova]

26. Jeez, I should've known it would be Andy Harris ... self-righteous prick that he is.

:rant: I know some people around here don't like Kratovil because he was a Blue Dog and even voted against health care, but he was infinitely better than Harris. He voted the way he did because his district wouldn't elect a Dem otherwise. Unlike Harris, he voted for ecosystem protection measures. MD is almost literally built around the Chesapeake Bay, and has watched its fortunes decline as pollution (largely agricultural runoff) and overfishing have devastated that ecosystem. Harris made it clear in his campaigns that he would be on the side of developers, and against environmentally-based restrictions. Now let's all watch as the Chesapeake is turned into a sewage catchment.

Before you say all Blue Dogs are no better than Repugs, TALK TO THE PEOPLE IN THE DISTRICT!!