Ultimate RW Hypocrisy, Dick Armey, sues to get private plan instead of Medicare... - New England Patriots Forums

***DarrylS*** · 09-21-2009, 04:03 AM

Here is the leader of Freedomworks, who will not divulge their sources of funding, Armey receives about 500K pension for life and all the benefits.. he rails about the public option most folks receive when they are 65, wants the government to subsidize his own "cadillac" choice.. unbelievable... reminds me of the ultrahypocritical Contract with America...

DownWithTyranny!: Bill Moyers Asks Just Who Is Dick Armey?

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Now get this: Dick Armey, thought so much of that federal health plan, the Cadillac of coverage, that he tried to keep it as his primary carrier instead of that other federal program, Medicare. Mr. Armey wanted an option, a government option, How about that? But he couldn't get out of Medicare without losing his Social Security. They're hitched together; you give up one, you give up both. So he's suing to divide the two. Now he says he's happy to buy his health insurance on his own. Why not? He's got that pile of dough. And there's the rub: Dick Armey is the epitome of those people with power and privilege who are insured against the vicissitudes of life and want no government assistance for any suffering-- except their own.

http://www.medicarelawsuit.org/pdf/pr_121608.pdf

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According to the amended complaint, Armey “has been receiving Social Security monthly
benefits since 2003 and was automatically enrolled in Medicare, Part A, in 2006” against his
will. Instead, the complaint says, Armey “sought the continuance” of the health benefits he had
under the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), which covers federal
government employees and retirees (and their dependants), including members of Congress,
administration officials and the congressional and White House staffs.
The complaint says Armey “was unable to keep his previous health coverage because the
defendants [SSA and HHS] claimed that receiving his Social Security monthly benefits was
predicated upon his enrollment in Medicare, Part A.” This is not what the law says, nor has there
ever been a formal “rulemaking” establishing such a policy, the lawsuit contends.

Here is the video if you want to enrich your lives for 8 minutes..

Bill Moyers: Tea Party Organizer Is Epitome Of Privilege (VIDEO)

wistahpatsfan · 09-21-2009, 08:30 AM

FIRST THIS:

THEN THIS:

Real World · 09-21-2009, 08:51 AM

I'm not going to defend Dick Armey cuz I really don't give two poops about him. What I'm going to point to is the facts being presented in the story. First off, the "government plan" the guy speaks of, is an employer provided insurance policy, and not a "public" option. Since Armey was an "employee" of the gubmit, his "employer", the gubmit, provided insurance as a benefit. People who work for the fed, get an insurance benefit, just like people who work at Citizens Bank, Kellog's, Stop & Shop, etc. Trying to equate a public option, with a federal employee's employment based plan, is disengenuous at best. Expecially since the "public" option being sold to the populace, IS NOT the federal employee plan. I heard Obama discussing this on the Micheal Smerconish Show myself, when a caller asked if federal employees would be rolled into the "public option", and he said no. He said federal employees would stay with the plan they got. They are two entirely different plans.

As for the latter point in the article, regarding medicare and SS, I honestly had no idea you had to accept both, or not receiver either. Why is that? Does anyone know? If someone wanted to pay for their own insurance, why couldn't they? Wouldn't that be a savings to the gubmit? Does some retired millionare who collects SS need to also get medicare, or better yet, should he have to if he doesn't want it? I never knew the two were a package deal like that.