Let Congress Go Without Insurance
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on October 9th, 2009 4:30 am by HL
Let Congress Go Without Insurance
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
Let me offer a modest proposal: If Congress fails to pass comprehensive health reform this year, its members should surrender health insurance in proportion with the American population that is uninsured.Nicholas D. Kristof Nicholas Kristof addresses reader feedback and posts short takes from his travels.It may be that the lulling effect of having very fine health insurance leaves members of Congress insensitive to the dysfunction of our existing insurance system. So what better way to attune our leaders to the needs of their constituents than to put them in the same position?About 15 percent…
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