Hypocrisy in bashing healthcare reform.

[VaYank5150]

As we've noted before, if you add the failure of employer-linked health care with Medicare, Medicaid, government employment, and the military, a huge chunk of Americans already have taxpayer-funded health care. It's a diverse lot. Rich old people and poor kids, university professors, congressmen, teachers, DMV clerks and their families. Pretty much everybody you see on CNBC yelling about socialism? Their parents and grandparents (if they're still living) get taxpayer-funded health insurance. Mine do. Charles Grassley, the septuagenarian Iowan who is doing his darnedest to torpedo meaningful health care form, has it. Arthur Laffer, the 69-year-old economist who went on television and suggested that Medicare isn't a government health care program, is eligible for Medicare. Dick Armey, who spent many years teaching at a state university and served several terms in Congress, has had taxpayer-funded health insurance for much of his adult life. Same for Rudy Giuliani and Newt Gingrich. Democratic senators like Max Baucus, Kent Conrad, and Ben Nelson? Yes, yes, and yes. Law professors at the University of Tennessee have it. The employees of George Mason University, which houses the free-market Mercatus Center, do, too. Policy analyst Betsy McCaughey, currently reprising her 1990s role of health care bamboozler, will be eligible for it in a few years' time.

Many of the pundits attacking government health insurance rely on government health insurance for their own families. - By Daniel Gross - Slate Magazine

 

[KittenKoder]

It's not hypocrisy, it's voicing opposition. Whether correct or wrong, that's what America has been proud of, the ability to do this. Anyone who doesn't like people voicing opposition needs to leave, no matter which side of the spectrum they are.

 

[veritas]

It's exactly hypocrisy.

 

[KittenKoder]

It's exactly hypocrisy.

I recommend you look up the word.

 

[VaYank5150]

Anyone who doesn't like people voicing opposition needs to leave, no matter which side of the spectrum they are.

Do me a favor and actually READ the article BEFORE you attempt to comment on it...