Clearly if the best care in the world is good enough for them it's good enough for me.. Except we will not get the same care afforded to them and the working mans/womans care will go down.

I'm a bit of an equalitarian. I think we all deserve the best health care.

i have the national health service the envy of the world!

Because we pretty much have all been born with human bodies.

If it weren't for us, they would not have their jobs. They work for us we don't work for them. This is something the American people seem to have forgotten. What makes them think they should have better health care than the people who decide whether or not they have a job?

In the future or now? Now, because I'm pretty sure I pay more for my health care than they do! On top of the thousands I pay out for my own care, I'm paying out in taxes so others can have health care, too.

Realistically, I don't! ;-)

How about Equal Protection Under the Law? If it's good enough for us, it should be good enough for THEM!

Because they're my employees.

They have given themselves excellent lifetime health care coverage -- which includes no copays and no pre-existing conditions -- on my dime, but argue over whether or not the taxpayer should get coverage infinitely more inferior. Screw them. If we don't get it, they shouldn't. We are the only first-world democracy without universal health care. These SOBs find every reason to take our money and give nothing in return. Their government "programs" involve pouring our tax money into companies in which they own stock and receive huge campaign donations -- which is exactly what this "Health Care Plan" that they are discussing does. Any plan that involves unregulated corporate industry providers will bleed this country white. Remember, these are the scum that came up with HMOS, pre-existing conditions, useless copays -- every possible way to take your money and deny you care, because the fact is, there is no other way to make a profit on sick people. Everybody in the world seems to know this but us. We need to be looking NOT toward Canada, whose health care provider system is being slowly dismantled by successive conservative governments over the past decade and is looking more like the American Way every year, but to Austria, France, Sweden and Germany for models. Do you really believe that if a small country like Belgium can afford this, that we can't? Belgium, for chrissakes. Happy, healthy people living in a democracy with cars and homes and five week paid vacations, and clean safe efficient mass transit, and good schools and a violent crime rate much, much lower than ours. See comment string at bottom of this answer: http://www.answerbag.com/a_view/4000181 This plan they are putting together, by allowing idiocy like unregulated corporate industry providers into the mix (the Dems will vote against that) and abortion (the Republicans will vote against that), is designed to fail in Congress. And that is the plan. It will fail and Congress will tell their constituents that they tried, they did their best thay could for the citizens, but the other guys sabotaged their efforts. We will then remain a divided country at each others throats, without affordable health care for most, at war, with lousy schools, with increasing infringements on our freedoms, and saddled with representatives not of the people, but of the corporate oligarchy with an agenda to bleed off our tax money into the pockets of the preditor class every chance they get. Yes, of course I think we should get at least the same coverage as Congress. They work for US, for chissakes.

Who are you and what have you done with my Conservative friend, Payton? The President and Senators have the best health care in the country. It's the same health care all 8 million federal employees. You know, one of those terrible Government-Run programs. They don't have the fun of co-pays. Sadly, they don't have any loving insurance executives to routinely deny their claims for bogus technical reasons, knowing that about 50% of the insureds will simply give up and pay out of pocket, saving the corporate bosses billions a year and ensuring fat bonus checks for the execs. And they miss the great fun of having their coverage suddenly and inexplicably dropped if they come down with a serious long-term illness. Theey will unfortunately miss the joy of bankruptcy forced by a major illness. How underprivileged they are, our poor public servants. Look at what they give up to protect us from lousy coverage like they subject themselves to.

Because any one can be the leader of this country or so we are told so why would we not deserve the same basic health care needs.

I should have better quality health care than they do because I am more important to me than they are.

Our taxes pay their a#ses, why should we not deserve what we pay for them to have?