New GOP rep demands his government health care

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Originally Posted by Riot

Nobody is saying the guy shouldn't get government health care.

The laughable, hypocritical thing is that the guy is indignant there is no public option he can take advantage of when he finds himself without insurance for a month.

The very same type of public option he campaigned against, what he called "a gateway to socialized medicine".

Guess it's only a denouncable socialistic gateway if it's not something you personally want.

He can pay COBRA rates like everyone else to hold over his old healthcare until the new job healthcare kicks in. If he doesn't have insurance now, looks like he's screwed for 28 days, like 40 million other uninsured Americans.

But at least now he cannot be denied insurance for his pre-existing conditions. Until he votes to overturn that, as he swore to do on the campaign trail.

Well, I think he's right that it is ridiculous that he won't be covered until 2/1. It seems as if he was surprised by it, and started asking what his options were. That doesn't seem that bad to me. It just doesn't strike me as that unreasonable for him to think that perhaps there was something that "the two ladies who were answering questions" could tell him about where he should buy healthcare, or what his options were in the interim.

Or maybe, it wasn't any of that. Perhaps he was just trying to score points against single-payer and/or the public option by saying "look, the government can't even provide healthcare to its own workers, how is it going to provide healthcare for everyone!?!?" I don't know what the point to that would be given that single-payer is beyond buried, but maybe he was trying to be cute.

Either way it just doesn't strike me as all that hypocritical. Personally, I'm a single-payer supporter. But if a person who starts working for the post office starts asking their new HR person about when coverage begins and what they should do if there is a gap, I don't think that necessarily makes them a hypocrite, even if they loudly denounce single-payer or the public option as policy measures.