To begin with, not everyone makes the $165,000 a year or so that members of Congress do. In fact, at least 100,000 federal workers — at least 5 percent of the active work force — do not have health insurance. In many cases, according to the union that represents the workers, they consider even the cheapest options within the federal plan unaffordable. The lowest-priced family coverage offered by Blue Cross, for example, costs the employee about $2,400 a year.
Of course, Medicare, a single-payer program for the elderly, should be expanded to cover everybody. We already have "socialized medicine" for some people because the private system can't do shit when it is motivated by turning over a profit.
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