Four S.C. GOP House Members keep their own insurance, vote to take from others

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Saturday February 19, 2011 · 12:36 PM PST

2011/02/19 · 12:36

What did you expect from South Carolina Republicans?

U.S. Reps. Tim Scott, Mick Mulvaney, Trey Gowdy and Jeff Duncan all voted last month to repeal what they and their Republican colleagues call “ObamaCare,” the landmark bill the president signed into law last March to provide federally mandated coverage to 32 million uninsured Americans.
But the state’s four freshman representatives aren’t repealing their own new memberships in the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program, a heavily taxpayer-subsidized plan with broad choices, generous provisions and low premiums thanks to discounted rates for its 8 million policyholders nationwide.

Sad, isn’t it? They vote to take away from others, but keep their taxpayer-funded healthcare . And notice the poll…

It give you the option to say they should keep it because it’s an “earned benefit.” How about that. People who work all their lives, live paycheck to paycheck and take care of families while going jobless at points in time are lesser than those who run for office, accepting hundreds of thousands from donors i.e. insurance companies, even while they are sometimes in a wealthier class.

Seventeen new GOP House members elected to not take federal health care. Good for them. They stick behind their principle.

South Carolina’s GOP four are hypocrites, though, what’s new.

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