INCOMING TEA Party Rep. Andy Harris is against government health care.
Except for his own, that is.
The newly elected representative from Maryland ran on, among other things, a promise that he would repeal health care reform once elected.
But he was appalled to find out that his own government health care would take 28 days to kick in. According to a report at Politico.com, the new representative promptly threw a tantrum:
"He stood up and asked the two ladies who were answering questions why it had to take so long, what he would do without 28 days of health care," said a congressional staffer who saw the exchange. The benefits session, held behind closed doors, drew about 250 freshman members, staffers and family members to the Capitol Visitors Center auditorium late Monday morning.
"Harris then asked if he could purchase insurance from the government to cover the gap," added the aide, who was struck by the similarity to Harris' request and the public option he denounced as a gateway to socialized medicine.
Harris, a Maryland state senator who works at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore and several hospitals on the Eastern Shore, also told the audience, "This is the only employer I've ever worked for where you don't get coverage the first day you are employed," his spokeswoman Anna Nix told Politico.
Gee, imagine that. This is the first time Harris has had to make do temporarily without employer-sponsored health care.
Unlike, say, the millions of working Americans who receive no coverage at all through their employers.
Hopefully, he won't get sick before his taxpayer-funded, government-provided health care kicks in.
