On average-congressmen receive $700 per month in taxpayer subsidies to help pay for their health ins

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House Republicans Explain Why They Won’t Give Up Their Own Government-Sponsored Health Care

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On average, congressmen receive $700 per month in taxpayer subsidies to help pay for their health insurance. Members use these subsidies to choose a health insurance plan available through a government-sponsored exchange which, among other regulations, bars discrimination based on preexisting conditions. As Lee Fang of ThinkProgress notes, “The federal system mirrors the reforms enacted by Democrats and President Obama, which end health insurance abuses by regulating coverage through an exchange, while offering subsidies to individuals and small businesses to make coverage more affordable.”

VIDEO and links:
http://thinkprogress.org/2011/01/19/gop-health-hypocrisy/

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1. K&R...n/t

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2. RepubliCON health care

[Paper Roses]

3. It costs most of the rest of us more than $700 to pay for lousy,

inadequate insurance. That is, of course, providing we have money to afford any insurance in the first place.

What a messed up nation we are.

[Sinistrous]

4. As do all Federal employees with health insurance.