If you want to compare it to a basic employee/employer situation, it’s like getting the IT job based (partly) upon your condemnation and ridicule of Microsoft products, only to turn around once you get the job and start filling out requisitions for Microsoft products.
Or let’s just stop with the bad analogies. because they are unnecessary.
He’s a politician.
A bad analogy can be crucial to an argument, like a carburetor to a chicken.
That’s stupid. Chickens are fuel-injected.
How about the government taking all congress critters off of the government plan and making them get a plan in the open market like the rest of us? It just might convince some of them that health care has been broken for decades.
“Why, yes, Senator Throckmorton, this is precisely the same treatment any of our insurance customers receive! Now, you just relax, and the nurse will be along shortly with your blowjob and your morphine…”
The part that gets my eyes rolling is what I posted in the Stupid Republican Idea of the Day thread (two minutes after this was opened, ah well):
If he had actual government-run health care, it wouldn’t change when he took a different job, and he wouldn’t have the 30-day gap in coverage he’s so outraged about.
Dude’s a doctor, right? My dick, his ear, eyeball pops out, we’ll call it even.
He’s a hypocrite. Maybe not the biggest one ever, but still a hypocrite.
Not having insurance, I get my care from a clinic that has a sliding scale. For being an asshole running on a pledge to repeal “Obamacare” to turn round and go with the gimme-gimme-gimme to get his mitts on government healthcare minutes after arriving is epic fail and douchebaggery.
If government-run health care is inefficient because of a 30 day gap between job start and coverage, then the private health care system must be three times less efficient since I had to wait 90 days when I got my current job in the private sector.
Eh, he was asking questoins at his orientation. It’s not like he was making a stink about this on the floor. I read that he will end up using COBRA, by the way. If he didn’t know about COBRA beforehand, I’d say he’s more ignorant than hypocritical.
I’m sure he probably knew about COBRA, but didn’t want to have to fork out the money for it.
Okay, so he’s not a hypocrite. Just a moron.
Come now, it’s not like the guy is a doctor or anything. Why should he have any practical knowledge of the medical system?
-Joe
I doubt the time lag for coverage is a state secret or anything like it; I suspect it is public information. The jerk in question competed for the job that he now has; he had plenty of time to do due diligence on the changes he could expect if he won the job. I believe he should be eligible to pay for Cobra coverage; if he thinks he can’t afford it, maybe his colleagues in medicine will extend him professional courtesy and do his health shit for free. Personally, I’d delay his coverage for six months, if I could.
Are you serious? If it’s anything complicated it’s gonna cost at least five chickens! Maybe even a bake sale or two if it’s rocket surgery.
Wouldn’t that depend on how beautiful he is?
Well, he is a doctor. I’m sure he can treat his own self for free. 
My latest job it was the first of the month 90 days after hire. That is just a few months ago,
Fuck conservatives and fuck teabaggers. I’d like to pull all govt provided benefits from Congress until they are something all Americans receive. Let them try to buy insurance when they are 50+ and have pre-existing conditions.
And we are telling him that if he doesn’t like the job, we have plenty of other people who do and will work for less.
Nor have I. When I started at [Large Federal Agency], it took about a month for my health insurance to kick in.