This anti-Obamacare Tea Party wants his…government-sponsered health insurance. RIGHT NOW!
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/45181.html
Bloated sense of entitlement, much?
I don’t know. I can see why this might move the needle on one’s irony meter, but he is basically talking to his soon-to-be employer, through which (like most people) he’ll be receiving his health insurance. It’s just a regular issue anyone might have in this situation, and that the employer happens to be the federal government in this case is neither here nor there.
I’ve never had that.
Maybe the guy’s got some condition that he needs regular doctor visits or medication, and the gap in coverage will cause him difficulties?
He is a doctor, specializes in cranio-proctology
Waaaah, I’m crying over here, I really am.
What’s this? A member of the GOP acting like a hypocrite? I’m shocked, shocked I tell ya. Next you’ll be telling me he’s also an in-the-closet homosexual.
For this to be hypocritical, Harris would have to profess the belief that no one should receive government-sponsored health care even if they work for the government. Again, I get why this raises an eyebrow, but the hypocrisy charge doesn’t stand up to logical scrutiny.
I just don’t see the hypocrisy here. The guy is upset that his employer delays a month before putting him on their health insurance and wants to pay to get on his employer’s insurance early. His employer just happens to be the government. He’s also opposed to the Obama health care plan, but that doesn’t make him a hypocrite, unless he’s also said, “I don’t think government employees should have health care.”, which there’s no evidence he believes. Obviously nobody has a problem with the government providing health insurance for their employees.
I agree that this story is silly. At most, his concern for a gap of 28 days in his own coverage can be ironically contrasted with his failure to offer serious solutions for the millions of Americans who lack insurance for much longer periods. But that’s pretty weak tea.
Tea parties have always had weak tea. Something about diluting a few crates in the whole ocean…
That sounds like a rather enormous disconnect to me.
One can recognize that going without insurance is a problem without agreeing to any particular solution, and without prioritizing the offering of your own solutions. Indeed, this dude may think it’s a problem, but one government shouldn’t solve for anyone other than government employees. I think the GOP has implicitly downplayed the importance of the problem by refusing to even offer serious ideas for expanded coverage, but that doesn’t mean this dude doesn’t think it’s a problem.
Having marked himself as a troublemaker, he should be downsized. It’s the only way America can maintain its competitive edge.
“ what he would do without 28 days of health care,”
This. Lots of people ask that, about longer periods of time than that. But this jerk doesn’t care.
Why didn’t he just pay the COBRA premiums and keep the coverage from his last job?
Employment perks aside, his request to buy in is a request for something not covered by his employment, and it’s a request for an option he and the Republicans have denied to the public.
His employer is us.
I don’t always write carefully, but I enjoy it when I do. The word “basically” in the post you quoted is there solely as an acknowledgement of this (largely, though not entirely, abstract) fact.
Of course, it’s not all that relevant to the question at hand.
He doesn’t know what COBRA is. Because tea party candidates are universally uninformed.
He should refuse it. He must have his principles.