Republican freshman outraged over congressional health care plan
By Rachel Rose Hartman rachel Rose Hartman Tue Nov 16, 9:01 am ET
Andy Harris speaks on election night.Newly elected GOP Rep. Andy Harris showed up Monday to freshman orientation on Capitol Hill and discovered that his health care wouldn't kick in until February. He wasn't pleased.
"This is the only employer I've ever worked for where you don't get coverage the first day you are employed," the Maryland House member-elect stated during an orientation session Monday, as his spokeswoman recounted to Politico.
Harris is uniquely familiar with the health care industry: He works as an anesthesiologist.
He also asked whether he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap--a proposal that, as one Hill aide noted to Politico, sounds awfully similar to the public option he denounced on the campaign trail.
Harris' staff says he wasn't being hypocritical--and that indeed, the lawmaker was drawing attention to the inefficiency of a government-run health care program.
(Photo: AP/Steve Ruark)
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By Rachel Rose Hartman rachel Rose Hartman Tue Nov 16, 9:01 am ET
Andy Harris speaks on election night.Newly elected GOP Rep. Andy Harris showed up Monday to freshman orientation on Capitol Hill and discovered that his health care wouldn't kick in until February. He wasn't pleased.
"This is the only employer I've ever worked for where you don't get coverage the first day you are employed," the Maryland House member-elect stated during an orientation session Monday, as his spokeswoman recounted to Politico.
Harris is uniquely familiar with the health care industry: He works as an anesthesiologist.
He also asked whether he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap--a proposal that, as one Hill aide noted to Politico, sounds awfully similar to the public option he denounced on the campaign trail.
Harris' staff says he wasn't being hypocritical--and that indeed, the lawmaker was drawing attention to the inefficiency of a government-run health care program.
(Photo: AP/Steve Ruark)
Copyright © 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reser
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