ELIZABETH WARREN: “Scott Brown campaigned against health care reform and when he got the Senate he voted to block health care reform. We just learned today back in Mass that he is using that same health care reform act to make sure that his adult daughter gets covered on his health insurance policy, at the same moment he wants to repeal it for everyone else,” she said. “This is wrong.”
Scott Brown sees nothing wrong with
keeping his 23 year old daughter on his own Senate health insurance plan. That is, after all, what any other
self-respecting millionaire would do, unless of course you have philosophical differences with a new law that allows that. Then it's just old-fashioned hypocrisy.
Brown said the extended use of his congressional coverage is not inconsistent with his criticism of the federal law, enacted over his objection after he won a special election in 2010, because the same coverage could be required by individual states.
On the campaign trail this year, Brown has said he still wants to repeal the law, which he argues is inferior to the health care law enacted by Massachusetts in 2006.
“I’ve said right from the beginning, that if there are things that we like, we should take advantage of them and bring them back here to Massachusetts,’’ the senator said.