Hey Republicans!!! Your Employer Provided Health Care is Government Health Care, and Taxpayer funded. GIVE IT UP if you Oppose Reform.

Many conniving Republican politicians have decided to keep their government health care in the House and Senate because, as they describe it, they're just getting their benefits from their EMPLOYER. Huh?

Funny thing with that argument though; we the people are their employer, and they are denying us the same benefits we are providing them. Well what do you know, I didn't fall for it?

It's a stupid reason. Watch Rand Paul say it with wide eyes and a straight face, like it makes sense. It doesn't make any sense because it's still a government provided benefit and paid for by taxpayers. It's NOT just an EMPLOYER BENEFIT. Watch these numskulls pass this idiocy and hypocrisy off to the compliant press, who couldn't think fast enough to question their bullshit response.

CNN:

Washington (CNN) -- It's now official. Starting Tuesday, members of Congress may receive generous health care benefits -- subsidized by Uncle Sam. But Democrats are crying hypocrisy, saying Republicans who want to repeal the health care law for Americans should not accept similar benefits for themselves. "It's hypocritical … to repeal the law … that the president signed into law -- to provide for the first time for many Americans in 2014 access to what we as members of Congress have," employer-provided health care, Representative Joseph Crowley, D-New York, told

The Federal Employees Health Benefit Program is subsidized by the government, the cost of the plans are relatively low because the pool of federal workers is so big. That's the same theory behind the exchanges being set up for most Americans as part of the new health care law. 

Florida Representative Allen West dismisses Democratic accusations that he and other lawmakers like him are hypocrites. West calls that Democratic "propaganda." 

GOP leadership aides insist there is nothing wrong with lawmakers accepting government-subsidized health care benefits, since the government is their employer. "The speaker … gets his health coverage through his employer. That has nothing to do with opposition to Washington Democrats' unconstitutional, job-destroying health care law," said a spokesman for House Speaker John Boehner. 

They may be small in number, but some of Boehner's freshmen GOP colleagues disagree. They say their opposition to the health care law is in fact connected to the government-subsidized insurance offered to them. Representative Paul Gosar, R-Arizona has a health savings account for his family, and has seen his premiums increase 30% in the last year … if Gosar were to opt in to federal health benefits, he would be able to cover his entire family for about $300 a month. Under his current plan, he has to pay approximately $1,700 a month out of pocket.