Call Mary Landrieu and ask when she is giving up HER public option health insurance!

[Bluebear]

from http://www.americablog.com/

Democratic Senator Mary Landrieu only opposes "public option" health insurance plans when you're the one who's going to benefit. When she's the one with her mouth to the federal teat, Landrieu, well, sucks. So when is Landrieu going to give up her federal health coverage, in order to, you know, show how committed she is to opposing public option health insurance? I assume Landrieu is also going to ask her socialist staff to stop wasting federal tax dollars on their public option health insurance as well. Landrieu's website tells us she's been working in government since she was 23. For most of her adult life, she's been on the receiving end of a lot of public funds paying her salary and her benefits.

The health care groups should have gotten tough with people like Landrieu and the Blue Dogs and the Republicans and Ben Nelson a long time ago. Someone should have started a campaign to repeal the health insurance of every member of Congress who opposes the public option. It would have been a media feeding frenzy and the members of Congress wouldn't have known what to say. It would have given all of us something to rally around, and would at the same time put increasing pressure on those very members of Congress causing us the most trouble.

But that would be mean. And liberals don't do mean. They just lose, with losers like Mary Landrieu leading the way.

Feel free to call Landrieu's office and ask the hypocrites when they're giving up their own publicly funded health insurance: [phone] - then post what you find out in the comments.

[MountainLaurel]

1. Will do

I work for a med center in her state that loses millions due to uncompensated care -- not necessarily from the uninsured or Medicare recipients, but also from providing care for insured patients and then the insurance company not covering the procedure.

[mitchtv]

2. Sir, I can't answer rhetorical questions

Me: just tell her , her job is in jeopardy

[ThomWV]

3. You clearly have no understanding what so ever about Federal Health Care Benefits

You post is just so full of shit from start to finish that there is no good place to start. About the best I can tell you is that before you start blovating at least you should read up on the plan the woman takes part in. Like any other employer based insurance plan there is no other option - you either take what they offer or you take nothing. In the case of the Federal plan there are many private insurers that participate, each offering different levels of coverage at different prices. That's right, prices. Federal employees pay for their health care insurance and the Federal Government, like most other large employers, covers a portion of the price. Its part of the price of attracting capable people in the competitive job marketplace but that's not the point. The point is that the Federal program is no better or worse than that offered by virtually all major companies, that it is not free, that it does not provide totally comprehensive coverage, or that there is any option for employees to have some plan other than what is offered. In short the plans are contrary to virtually everything you said, implied, or hinted at.

[Bluebear]

5. Speaking of full of shit, why don't you go write the author of the post to educate him?

Come back and tell us how it went.

[Toucano]

4. Good post, Bluebear.

I am getting fed up with that senator.