Coffee & Covid mentions another reason that the under-30 crowd voted against 'em. This is Socialism, of course; the kids wonder why THEY don't get Socialism. Who can blame them?
...In 1928, three congressmen collapsed in a single month, and one died in his office after two hours with no doctor. A terrified Congress declared it a crisis. A resolution ordering the Navy to post a physician at the Capitol at all times was introduced and passed unanimously the same day. It remains Congress’s fastest action ever on health care. It only had to cover 435 people.
The Navy dispatched Dr. George Calver, who became so beloved that Congress passed a law forbidding the Navy to transfer him. He stayed 38 years and hung “Commandments of Health” around the Capitol urging members to “relax completely.” It is the only commandment Congress has ever kept.
A century later, Calver’s practice has become the Office of the Attending Physician: five physicians, two pharmacists, eleven corpsmen, and a private pharmacy, serving members, staff, and Supreme Court justices. Until 1992, it was free. Then the House bank scandal shamed members into paying, get this, a $520 annual fee. A 2022 fee form bumped it up to $650. Your copay has inflated faster. Your annual deductible is probably ten to twenty times what Congress pays for an entire year of unlimited healthcare and prescriptions.
So it’s basically free, with just enough of a fee that Congressmen can claim they pay for the services....
Included in that $650? The real needs:
...Congress’s toenails were an unpleasant but critical Naval duty, like fighting Yemeni pirates or de-mining the Strait of Hormuz. One seaman told Navy Times that working in the Congressional clinic included duties “no one else wants to do,” like “cutting a congressman’s toenails or bringing their medication to their private residence at 3 a.m.”...
That pathetic bag of wind you elected? More scammy than many Somalis, and far more Socialist than even AOC ever dreamed.
