{"id":188183,"date":"2010-11-18T21:51:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/18\/i-am-so-glad-that-i-do-not-live-15-miles-further-east\/"},"modified":"2010-11-18T21:51:00","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T02:51:00","slug":"i-am-so-glad-that-i-do-not-live-15-miles-further-east","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/11\/18\/i-am-so-glad-that-i-do-not-live-15-miles-further-east\/","title":{"rendered":"I Am So Glad That I Do Not Live 15 Miles Further East"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because if I did, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonmonthly.com\/archives\/individual\/2010_11\/026655.php\">biggest wanker in Congress<\/a> would be my Congresscritter:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in.<\/p>\n<p>Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank Kratovil on Maryland\u2019s Eastern Shore, reacted incredulously when informed that federal law mandated that his government-subsidized health care policy would take effect on Feb. 1 \u2013 28 days after his Jan. 3rd swearing-in.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care,\u201d said a congressional staffer who saw the exchange. The benefits session, held behind closed doors, drew about 250 freshman members, staffers and family members to the Capitol Visitors Center auditorium late Monday morning,\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHarris then asked if he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap,\u201d added the aide, who was struck by the similarity to Harris\u2019s request and the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Andy Harris campaigned non-stop against government run healthcare, but that&#8217;s only for people who <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">aren&#8217;t<\/span> him, I guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because if I did, the biggest wanker in Congress would be my Congresscritter: A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen at a Monday orientation session by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in. Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[962,998,969,1046,1051,982,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-40yrs","category-congress","category-evil","category-healthcare","category-hypocrisy","category-stupid","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}