Congress Loves Socialized Health Care - For Itself By Jim Hightower!!!!
(2019-07-04 at 16:14:13 )

Congress Loves Socialized Health Care - For Itself By Jim Hightower

Members can walk straight into a Capitol Hill clinic, get treated without insurance, and count on taxpayers to cover the tab.

For $3.5 trillion a year, should we United States of Americans not have a world-class health care system?

Yet while we spend the most of any advanced nation in the world to get care - more than $10,000 a year per person - we get the worst results.

No surprise, then, that Medicare for All is now backed by 85 percent of Democrats, 66 percent of independents, and (get this) 52 percent of Republicans!

So - why is the United States Congress not responding to this overwhelming public demand for universal coverage?

I suspect that one big reason for Washingtons big yawn over the peoples plea for sweeping reform is that our lawmakers do not personally feel the financial pain and emotional distress that are inflicted on millions of regular United States of Americans by a system built on private greed.

After all, their health needs are met by a double-dose of the socialistic care that they so furiously deny to our families.

First, they are given big taxpayer subsidies to cover the cost of their insurance, with you and me paying about 72 percent of the price.

But second, there is a secretive medical center located right in the United States Capitol building that provides a full-blown system of - shhhhh - health care socialism to our governing elites.

Called the Office of the Attending Physician (or OAP)), it provides a complete range of free medical service for lawmakers.

No appointment needed and no waiting - they walk in and doctors, nurses, technicians, pharmacists, and other professionals tend to them right away.

No need to show an insurance card, and they never get a bill.

But they do get what a former OAP staffer calls "the best health care on the planet."

Thus, members feel no urgency to restructure a system that is working beautifully - for them.

So, to get good care for all of us, we might start by taking away the pampered care that lawmakers have quietly awarded to themselves.

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