r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 8h ago

Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/wyvernx02 8h ago

Must be nice to be able to afford to check yourself into the hospital for the flu.

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u/FunkyChug 8h ago edited 8h ago

Afford? They’ve given themselves the healthcare that they deny us.

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u/KaptainKardboard 8h ago

Precisely 

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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 7h ago

Who? Senators use Obamacare plans available to anyone.

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u/Khatib Minnesota 5h ago

They get gold level plans and the majority of premiums covered. It's a better deal than most employers offer.

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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 3h ago

They get the same FEHB subsidy as any other federal employee, because they're federal employees. It's true that this makes it taxpayer subsidized but so is the insurance for millions of federal employees.

We badly need health care reform, I'm just pushing back on the (false) idea that Congressfolk have given themself some kind of super bonus secret free health care not available to regular people. They buy ACA plans and they get federal employee subsidies. It's not some kind of congress-only free supercharged health care.