The White House is on a mission to debunk certain myths about H.R. 3200, aka public health reform. Today on twitter (@whitehouse) they posted a link to a video (embedded below) in which Linda Douglass of the White House Office of Health Reform states that “Congress has not taken a vote to exempt itself from health insurance reform…”
I guess that’s semantically correct. What they did do is vote against a proposed amendment, which “requires both the President and members of Congress to enroll in any new government-run healthcare”
Congressman Dean Heller (R-NV), the author of the proposed amendment, issued the following statement regarding Congress’s refusal to require participation of the president and congress:
I call on the majority party and the President to lead by example and include provisions in their legislation that requires both the President and members of Congress to enroll in any new government-run healthcare system. If the government-run ‘public plan’ is good enough for millions of our constituents, then it should be good enough for Members of Congress and the President. I do not believe the federal government should be running healthcare in our country and levying massive tax increases on America’s small businesses. However, what better way to monitor a government-run healthcare system than to make federal officials participate in the plan,
21 of 26 democrats on the House Ways and Means committee voted “NO” against the proposed amendment.
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