{"id":3391,"date":"2010-11-17T02:14:32","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T10:14:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3391"},"modified":"2010-11-17T02:14:32","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T10:14:32","slug":"harris-healthcare-for-me-not-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/17\/harris-healthcare-for-me-not-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Harris: Healthcare for ME, Not You!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican hypocrisy is a given on virtually all issues, but rarely do we see such an extreme example.  Andy Harris most of taken the wrong oath when he became a doctor: the hypocritical oath.  In his campaign to become a Representative, he ran on a single issue, opposition to health care reform.  When it comes to children having health care he says NO.  Preexisting conditions? NO  Employer mandate? NO  He says that you and I don\u2019t deserve health care coverage, but what about taxpayer funded healthcare for him?<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"17harris\"According to an account from a Capitol Hill staffer in Politico<\/a>, newly elected Maryland congressman Andy Harris — who ran on an anti-health care reform platform — wanted to know why it was taking so long for him to get his government-subsidized health care. <\/p>\n

He demanded to know during freshman orientation why his government health care wouldn’t kick in for a month<\/strong><\/font>, according to the account. It starts in February, a month after he’s sworn in, something he says is unusual and, according to one of his staffers, inefficient. <\/p>\n

He ousted the Eastern Shore Democrat Frank Kratovil even though he voted against the health care reform package. Harris wants to repeal the law<\/strong>.  <\/p>\n

The staffer said Harris asked if he could buy insurance from the government to cover the month-long gap, and Politico said the aide "was struck by the similarity to Harris\u2019s request and the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine."<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Baltimore Sun<\/a>><\/p>\n

Do you believe that?  He wants the public option!  Keith Olbermann and David Weigel tear him a new one.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Republicans have a built-in belief that they and both they, criminal corporations, and the super-rich are entitled to caviar at the same time that they deny us bread.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican hypocrisy is a given on virtually all issues, but rarely do we see such an extreme example.  Andy Harris most of taken the wrong oath when he became a doctor: the hypocritical oath.  In his campaign to become a Representative, he ran on a single issue, opposition to health care reform.  When it comes […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}