Chuck Grassley: If You Want Good Health Insurance, Work For The Government?
Mydd-Senator Chuck Grassley has been holding town-hall meetings around the state this week, and the Iowa Democratic Party highlighted a fun clip from his June 30 meeting in Waukon. A constituent wanted to know why his health insurance policy was so much more expensive than Grassley’s, despite having less generous coverage.
The senator advised the questioner to “go work for John Deere” if he wanted a better insurance policy. (Not too practical, since Deere has laid off workers in Dubuque, Ottumwa and the Quad Cities this year.) As Grassley tried to move on to the next question, the man continued to press for details about Grassley’s own coverage, and the senator advised him to go talk to the people at the Farm Services Administration about health insurance.
But the questioner followed up again: “How come I can’t have the same thing you have?”
To which Grassley replied, “You can. Go work for the federal government.”
Congress and local governments to Amercia: let them eat cake
What is so touching is how much we love our elite civil servants and want them to have a better deal than we would have for ourselves….