It's Such a Good Idea: Congress Should Go First

It's Such a Good Idea: Congress Should Go First

Rep. John Fleming, M.D. (R-LA) thinks that the proposed government health plan is such a good idea--that Congress should be part of it!

As a physician, I am amazed at the number of bureaucrats in this House who are quick to claim a government-run health care plan is the reform this country needs. In response to this, I have offered a resolution that will offer members of Congress an opportunity to put their money where their mouth is, and urge their colleagues who vote for legislation creating a government-run health care plan to lead by example and enroll themselves in the same public plan.

I remember reading that back in the 1980s, one of the signs of the hypocrisy of British MPs was how many of them paid for private medical care, rather than use the National Health Service. Ditto, with Presidents Clinton and Obama enrolling their kids in private school in the District of Criminals, rather than send their kids into what is certainly the least effective public school system in America (and perhaps in history).