PROPOSAL: strip all congressmembers of ANY subsidized health insurance.

[Lerkfish]

no more tax dollars towards their health insurance, period. Not just the Blue Dogs, all of them.

[Le Taz Hot]

1. And who's going to do this?

Them? That will go about as far as campaign finance reform.

[Lerkfish]

4. hyperbole to make a point.

they can certainly decree what kind of healthcare we have access to, but we cannot touch what they have, because they get to decide their own fates.

[Deja Q]

10. Until the tax money stops coming in.

At which point they're SOL too.

:shrug:

[cali]

2. Proposal: DUers stop posting ludicrous and impossible "solutions"

[Lerkfish]

3. oh, hello, cali. nice to see you again.

thanks for posting in my thread.

[cali]

5. you're welcome. Seriously, lurky, you're a smart guy

you know there is no way to accomplish what you're suggesting. I understand if you're just venting, but in that case, make it clear that that's what you're doing.

[Lerkfish]

8. ug... "lurky"? anyways, yeah, I'm just venting.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. That WOULD help pay down the debt faster.

They need to pull themselves up with their imported bootstraps and tighten their money belts.

[Davis_X_Machina]

13. The entire legilsative branch...

...including the Library of Congress and the Architect of the Capitol, costs about $9 billion, less than three weeks of what is spent on Afghanistan and Iraq,

The difference made in the budget by deleting health care for legislators would fund approximately half-a-day of those wars.

Symbolic politics - the kind of thing the GOP substituted for governing the last eight years.

[joeycola]

7. My proposal--Obama should heed Senator Wellstone's advice!!.....

Forum Name General Discussion
Topic subject From an interview in 1992
Topic URL http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6299570#6299801
6299801, From an interview in 1992
Posted by ipaint on Fri Aug-14-09 01:41 AM

CHARLAYNE HUNTER-GAULT: Well, how would you advise Clinton to campaign this fall on health care?

SENATOR WELLSTONE: People have to believe that Bill Clinton means what he's saying and he's saying what he believes. And my other advice would be don't be incremental. This is not a time where people are saying we want small change. People want to see fundamental change in the way we finance and deliver health care in the United States of America. And I think Bill needs to understand that and he needs to speak to that and if he has to take chances and be out front on the issue, he should be.

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/convention96/retro/healthcare.html

Think we will learn someday?

[bullimiami]

9. start a grass roots referendum in every state that their representatives cannot be provided

with any benefit that is not also available to their constituents.

[RC]

11. What?!! Are you nutz? They are our ruling class!

They deserve the very best at our expense! :sarcasm:

[Davis_X_Machina]

12. Wouldn't make a dime's worth of difference in their voting behavior.

Most of them are well enough off to replace it, and never notice the difference. The ones who would notice, like ex-paper-mill worker Mike Michaud (D-ME 2) are on our side anyways.

I guess it would feel good, though, and that's the real point of politics, isn't it? Being able to go "Yeaaaaah! Stuck it to the bastards!".

Eight years of an administration that raised purely symbolic, purely synthetic 'politics' to an art form, and we learned nothing.

[Vidar]

14. Great idea, but it would take an act of Congress. Irony of ironies.

[Melissa G]

15. There is one Senator who supports the public option already doing this

voluntarily. I hope more jump on board.

per cyclezealot post 10

"Ohio's Sen. Sherrod Brown has gone on record.. He will not accept the public option plan for himself, until it is made available to the general public.. Not sure what private option he subscribes to for himself as a result of his refusal to take the Congressional plan."
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