John Aravosis and I agree on something. Kind of.
He wants to repeal the Congressional medical insurance plan to members of Congress until they pass legislation for a socialized medicine program.
I want to repeal the Congressional medical insurance plan to members of Congress forever, and if they pass legislation for a socialized medicine program I want them to have to live under it, following all the rules that the everyday citizen would.
Sure, neither of which will ever happen, but mine is actually “fair”, whereas under his idea, you and I will get stuck with the socialized medicine program and Congress will have Tri-Care.
TriCare is nothing special. Civilianized military medicine, funded poorly, creating a huge crisis with every contract renewal.
If Congress had to use it, they would create a special group for just themselves inside of it, and have we GIs pay for that out of our meager funding, making ours even worse.
There are fewer docs who will accept TriCare now than Medicare, and the list shrinks all the time.
Members of Congress should get the same health care choices, at the same prices, as the regular federal employees get. Not what postal employees get, because they’ve been getting better coverage at lower prices for many years by threatening to strike, but what the average everyday civil servant gets.
I’m betting you’d see federal employees getting significantly better health insurance if this happened.