One of the little-known caveats in every piece of "health care reform" legislation exempts one small but particularly powerful group of individuals. These are folks who push for special legislation without regard to the impact it might have on others who don't have a job in that particular sector.
No, I'm not talking about the UAW, but an even more insidious collection of power brokers: our congress.
Well-known for passing onerous and expensive bills that they're unlikely to have to pay, these scions of honesty haven't mentioned that they, and theirs, won't have to actually live with the inferior health care they're attempting to foist on us.
The good news is, that may change:
Physician and US Representative John Fleming [R-LA] has introduced a bill that would require those who vote in favor of a nationalized system to "forgo their right to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and agree to enroll under that public option."
I like that: it's succinct, sensible and fair.
After all, if we're going to suffer, it seems only fitting that those whom we've elected to represent our interests suffer, too.
[Hat Tip: RedState]
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