GOD’S HERO; SENATOR BADASS BERNIE! KICKING REPUG ASS! “Republicans probably weren’t hoping that the first Senate hearing on the matter this year would feature a self-described “democratic socialist” getting GOP witnesses to back a key argument for universal health care. Thursdays hearing of the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions was devoted to the question of moving the full-time work standard under the Affordable Care Act from 30 hours a week to 40 hours, and whether more workers would be hurt by the higher or lower limit. But to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who has long supported the creation of a universal health care system, battling over that particular point began to seem absurd, and he opened his remarks by noting that in every other developed country, such a debate would make no sense at all. The argument of whether you provide health insurance to people who work 30 hours a week or whether they work 40 hours a week -- whoa, Sanders said. In every major country on Earth, health care is a right of all people. With that as his premise, he then asked three of the hearings witnesses -- two business owners and a school superintendent -- whether their lives and daily endeavors would be improved if government lifted from them the burden of providing health care to their workers. The panels only Democratic witness, Joe Fugere, founder of the Seattle-area Tutta Bella Pizzeria chain, readily answered that it would. And despite all the GOP’s cries and criticisms of socialized medicine when the Affordable Care Act was making its way through Congress years ago, the two Republican panelists agreed nearly as readily.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 04:27:34 +0000
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