Florida taxpayers spend roughly $45 million a year subsidizing health care for government employees. More than 27,000 government officials – including Governor Charlie Crist (R-Fla.), now a candidate for U.S. Senate – pay no premiums at all. Once a simple benefit of public service, these perks are now being called into question amid the nationwide debate over healthcare reform. For more on the story, we speak with Beth Reinhard, political writer for the Miami Herald.
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I have a newsflash: it ain't only the taxpayers of the State of Florida who are footing the bill for their public servants' Cadillac health insurance, it's all the states and then, we also bear the burden of financing that of the Congress and Senatewhores.
If you lived in Massachusetts you wouldn't be shocked. When the MA RomneyCare law was being debated in 2005 our rent-a-lawmakers constantly attacked uninsured taxpayers as being irresponsible free riders while THEY enjoyed subsidized health insurance courtesy of those same tax payers. --
Even today MA rent-a-lawmakers refuse to offer subsidized insurance to adjunct college faculty who might be cobbling together a middle class income across several campuses while facing premiums that can be $700 or $800 per month. Thus a group of them are suing the state. --
Similar types of lower middle class taxpayers will face similar punishing expenses in 2013 when the punitive individual insurance mandate kicks in.
13 other States has Free Health Plans..
Yet they Decry "Government Run Health Care Plans"
They call them "Socialized Medicine"
What a Joke.
Such Hypocrisy.
Blatant Double Standard
Thanks John & Celeste
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