How is Receiving Compensation for Your Work Hypocritical?

Published December 7, 2010 3:22pm ET



Confusion held by some Democrats about the proper role of government is coming to the fore in a recent push to get Republican House members who oppose Obamacare to eschew their federal health care benefits. Missouri Democratic Party chairman Craig Hosmer says the question is whether Missouri Republicans will “reject their federal health insurance plans or will they show themselves to be true hypocrites, who believe they deserve better health insurance than the people of Missouri…”

So, let me get this straight: If you oppose subjecting all of America to government-run health care, and sticking American taxpayers with the bill, then you must also oppose government-run health care for government employees – or else you’re a hypocrite? 

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