Rand Paul: Subsidizing Health Care Of Fed Workers=Unconstitutional-Yet He Relies On It For Himself

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Rand Paul Says Subsidizing Health Care Of Federal Workers Should Be Unconstitutional, Continues To Accept Subsidized Health Care
BY IGOR VOLSKY ON SEPTEMBER 23, 2013


Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) -- who has relied on taxpayer funded health care since 2011 -- plans to offer a constitutional amendment that would prohibit tax dollars from subsidizing the health care of government employees.

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The federal government currently pays for approximately 75 percent of Paul’s health care costs and the senator has advocated for expanding the Congressional system. In March of 2012, he co-sponsored legislation to expand the FEHBP to Medicare enrollees, highlighting in a press conference for the plan that “We’re going to offer a plan that would give all seniors citizens in the country the same Congressional health care plan that we have.” “Our health care plan, the Congressional health care plan, or the federal employee health care plan, is 75 percent subsidized,” he bragged

Paul’s office would not respond to multiple requests for comment.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/23/2663341/rand-pauls-latest-attack-obamacare-hypocritical/

[ProSense]

1. Rand: I got mine. n/t

[Jefferson23]

2. Do his constituents ever call him out on his bullshit? Get the fuck off the government system, Rand.

[IronLionZion]

3. Oddly enough his constituents have a state exchange and expanded medicaid

thanks to a Dem governor. Some of Rand Paul's constituents have been on record stating that their new state health insurance exchange, KYnect, sure beats obamacare, without knowing that it is obamacare.

People want health insurance. Democrats can win in places like Kentucky.

[Jefferson23]

5. Good to know, thank you for that information! n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. Another freeloading hypocrite

'nuff said.