Put your money where your mouth is!

Posted Thursday, July 16, 2009, at 10:42 AM

John Fleming a creative Congressman from Louisiana has a horse sense solution for the proposed Government Health Care Plan (socialized medicine) from the Obama Administration. It's a very short and to the point bill and we should demand it from all our officials. It's H.R.615 and it's gaining momentum in the House of Representatives.

This is H.R.615

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that members who vote in favor of the establishment of a public, federal government run health insurance option are urged to forgo their right to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP) and agree to enroll under that public option.

In short what this means is John Fleming is telling Congress, "put your money where your mouth is". He's saying that if you are a lawmaker and you vote in favor of the socialized health care program, you should forfeit your Federal Employee Health Benefits. Hats off to Representative John Fleming-YOU THE MAN!!! You've got to love this guy.

Here's the link to his website which isn't working all the time, I assume because of the extra heavy traffic from this proposal. click here

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So private insurance will ensure that everyone has good health care?

-- Posted by Grit on Tue, Jul 21, 2009, at 4:28 PM

So you would have no problem receiving the same standard of care as those in the nursing home?

FWIW-Medicaid was designed as a program to insure those who had fallen through the cracks. If it was working why do we need a multi-trillion dollar new program to insure those who have fallen through the cracks?

Changing the name of a plan that will be managed by the same group of bureaucrats will not prevent the same outcome.

-- Posted by quietmike on Sun, Jul 19, 2009, at 1:53 PM

Not well managed? I guarantee that numerous folks in Bedford County would not be living if they did not have either Medicaid or Medicare.

-- Posted by Grit on Sun, Jul 19, 2009, at 9:58 AM

It is Grit . . . and you see how wonderfully well the government has managed those programs. Yes that was sarcasm.

What is so bad about this whole health insurance issue is that it seems the government wants to pass a government health care plan but yet aren't doing anything about the real problems that exist like insurance abuse and high costs.

-- Posted by jaxspike on Sat, Jul 18, 2009, at 1:21 AM

I thought medicaid and medicare were a form of federal health insurance.

-- Posted by Grit on Fri, Jul 17, 2009, at 9:17 PM

ANY laws that ANY legislative body votes on should directly affect them or their family, especially if it concerns our money and health.

-- Posted by stevemills on Fri, Jul 17, 2009, at 7:55 AM

No way these limousine liberals will come down from their ivory towers and participate in the same programs they foist on us "commoners", just as congress didn't have to pay into the Social Security plan until 1984.

-- Posted by quietmike on Thu, Jul 16, 2009, at 5:23 PM

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Originally from Rutherford County, Fernandez moved to Shelbyville to pastor "The Crossing" church and has lived here for two years.

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