America Goes Uninsured While Congress Fiddles--and Gets Lifetime Health Insurance On Us!

You've gotta' love a good hypocrite--they're so bold in the face of things that contradict what they say or believe--usually what THEY have said or professed to believe.

And the best example of this is the way our dear public servants, especially the ones against any sort of health insurance reform, get treated when they retire.  All on us!  And look, they don't have to pay premium increases on their insurance--why?  Because we pick up the tab for them.

Uncle Sam will continue federal employee's health benefits, as long as you were enrolled in the program for the last five years, however you must pay the same monthly amount that you paid while working.

And health insurance benefits aren't all.  They get a nice pension as well--after a mere 5 years of service! Yes, thanks to us.

My fellow citizens, our public servants get a great deal of a ride into their retirement, which is why they campaign so furiously--it isn't about serving the public, it's about serving themselves so they can chalk up the pension dollars. 

What I find really galling about the whole mess, besides the obvious selfishness inherent in their voting behavior, is how the National Taxpayers Union grades these same nay-sayers as being friendly or "good" to us taxpayers.  But they don't see the ridiculousness in having us pay for their, sometimes, multi-million dollar pensions and for a lifetime of health insurance benefits--all while denying us access to a single payer system? Also, Steve Forbes is on their Board.  When's the last time he saw a payroll deduction on his paystub?  Like he gets a paystub?

Call your public servants, tell them "Hey, get off the payroll and give up your pension, the one we pay for, or give us all your great, government subsidized health insurance plan."  Here's the link, you can email it to them to remind them of their sweet, and hypocritical, deal.  http://www.opm.gov/INSURE/HEALTH/

Entire Congressional retirement package PDF here.  From this PDF, I leave you with this.  Please note how public outrage made it all go away before.

The Civil Service Retirement Act of 1920 (P.L. 66-215) established a pension system for federal employees in the executive branch of government. Coverage under the Civil Service Retirement System (CSRS) was extended to Congress in January 1942 by P.L. 77-411. That law was repealed just two months later in response to adverse public opinion. In 1946, P.L. 79-601 again extended CSRS coverage to Congress, at the option of Members, with higher contributions and greater benefits than those applicable to regular federal employees. In reference to that legislation, S.Rept. 79-1400 (May 31, 1946) stated that a retirement plan for Congress:
would contribute to independence of thought and action, [be] an inducement for retirement for those of retiring age or with other infirmities, [and] bring into the legislative service a larger number of younger Members with fresh energy and new viewpoints concerning the economic, social, and political problems of the Nation.