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If I cannot indefinitely maintain my current healthcare plan under the proposed legislation, then our leaders should face the same lack of options as I do. The White House, Congress and Supreme Court should be placed under the plan from day one so they are ‘in touch’ with what their constituents are facing, or will be facing, when their private plans are cut.
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What an outrage! -- Members of Congress have excluded themselves from Healthcare Plan
One Congressman Dr. John Fleming, M.D., is trying to do something about it.
This is police business and will probably, sooner or later, affect all of us, active or retired.
Congressman John Fleming (a Louisiana physician) has proposed an amendment that would require congressmen and senators to take the same healthcare plan they force on us (under proposed legislation they are curiously exempt). Congressman Fleming is encouraging people to go on his Website and sign his petition (very simple -- just first, last and email and
CHECK THE “YES” BOX on his web page:
Sign up here if you believe any member of Congress who votes for a government run health care plan should be forced to participate in the plan themselves?
I have immediately done just that at: http://www.fleming.house.gov/
Please urge as many people as you can to do the same!
If Congress forces this on the American people, the Congressmen should have to accept the same level of health care for themselves and their families.
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