Inequality. Unfair benefits! I want to know why Federal employees are not covered by the same Medicare plan that they foist off on the rest of us? I’d like to see ONE health plan for all Americans. Since coverage is better for federal employees….I want to be covered by THAT policy!
Of course, the next question is, how do we get them to do it?
Another issue I’d like to see addressed is the pension the legislators “earn.” Awarding a person a pension for life without regard to length of service is a gross misuse of funds. Each year I get a note from Social Security about what they will pay me IF I continue to work until I’m 70. Medicare is afraid to do the same sort of mailing because it’s likely the legislators will have spent everything before it’s time for me to retire!
Perhaps we need to consider one year of reimbursement for each year served. And perhaps we need to average their income over that time, rather than basing the pension on the salary of the last year in office. Our government is like a good old boys club, with members voting in as many freebies and benefits as they can, despite the fact that we are just beginning to rise out of a recession. They are handing out golden parachutes right and left, when people barely above poverty level are being taxed to pay for those benefits.

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