The Best Health Care Coverage In U.S. Is Reserved For...

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http://www.alternet.org/healthwellness/56439

The Best Health Care Is Reserved for Congress

By Don Sloan, Caveat Press. Posted July 11, 2007.

In an excerpt from his new book, Practicing Medicine Without a License, Don Sloan, M.D., shows that members of Congress enjoy health coverage with unlimited doctor visits, no deductibles and no co-pays -- all for $35 a month. So what about the rest of us?

The following is excerpted from Chapter 2 of Practicing Medicine Without a License! The Corporate Takeover of Healthcare in America.

The best healthcare is available

The OECD conclusion was not a surprise. We just do not get enough for our buck. But that is not true for everyone in the country. There is an employee/insurance deal in the U.S. that includes unlimited doctor office visits of your choosing; covers all accidents, routine exams, physical therapy, labs and X-rays; and the like; unlimited hospital visits and stays; certain chronic care and rehab; full prescription coverage; and unlimited specialty consultations. For the employee and the entire family. There are no deductibles, no co-pays, and only a $35 monthly fee taken from an annual salary of $158 though. Thirty-five dollars!

The group awarded this insurance looks forward to a full pension and continued coverage until their deaths. Quite a few, most in fact, were millionaires before they took on their jobs that got them such a perk. Who gets this coverage? It would be nice if it were the underprivileged or the chronically ill and debilitated or our veterans.

But no. For starters, the 535 members of the U.S. Congress, and add to that the few hundred in the upper executive and judicial branches of government. They are also members of a demographic group where seven were arrested for shoplifting, nineteen for writing bad checks, and eighty-four for drunk driving. This bunch also has an overrepresentation of felony indictments, and a few ended up serving time.

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[HeeBGBz]

1. That really pisses me off. n/t

[izzie]

2. Me also

==

[salin]

3. me three!

[texasleo]

4. me five

[salin]

5. texasleo!

good to see you (as I am about to sign off to head to work - but before I go :hi: )

[texasleo]

16. how you doin'?

:loveya:

[wakeme2008]

6. K&r nt ---- somebody make it 5 :)

[PA Democrat]

7. Gladly done!

We foot the bill for their health insurance. If only the rest of us had such great coverage!

[Tesha]

8. I've often thought that the Universal Health Care law should simply read...

I've often thought that the Universal Health Care law
should simply read:

o All American citizens shall have access to the same health
care policies and pay the same fees as members of the
Congress or Senate, whichever is more favorable.


That's it. Twenty eight words that would end all of our
health care worries.

Tesha

[Katherine Brengle]

9. You owe me a new computer keyboard - I just threw up all over mine.

This shit is irredeemable.

[mmonk]

10. Bill Richardson is for the Congressional plan

for everyone until they reach 55 whereby he wants them put on medicare.

[Schema Thing]

11. Part of Wes Clark's medical plan in 2004

was to make the system available to congress available to the rest of us w/o insurance.

[Lasher]

12. I know of some union members who get all that with no premium whatever

Maybe we should all join a union.

[antigop]

13. Yes, Lasher, exactly. When are employees going to figure that out?

They'd rather do nothing and accept the crumbs that are thrown their way.

[supernova]

14. So horribly sad

That people don't view others as fully deserving as themselves.

*shaking head*

[Hissyspit]

15. .