Here are words you won’t often find at IHateTheMedia.com:
We’d like to congratulate a Democrat.
To be specific, we’d like to congratulate Wisconsin Democrat Steve Kagen, who is the only member of Congress who refuses to take the rich healthcare benefits lavished on itself.
Kagen says he’ll continue to refuse them until every American citizen is offered the same kind of generous coverage.
“Kagen recently had knee surgery,” the Los Angeles Times reports, “writing checks for more than $4,500 after bargaining for a reduced-rate MRI and a 50% discount on the operation. (He is still dickering over the hospital bill.)”
That simple paragraph explains exactly what’s wrong with all the pie-in-the-sky plans proposed in Congress. Kagen negotiated. He dickered. He actually took control of his own healthcare instead of handing it over to some nameless, faceless, uninterested third party.
Proof that the marketplace is alive and well, even if socialized healthcare is dying.
Source: John Stossel, LA Times
