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[Alex]

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Congress has "government health care" and they seem to love it.

No they don't, they have traditional private insurance just like I do through my employer. Congressmen, though, as part of the largest employee pool in the United States (they have the same insurance options as all federal employees) just has the bargaining power to get relatively cheap rates.

The VA is our example of British-style government provided health care. Medicare is our big example of Canadian-style single-payer (but not government provided) health coverage.

The current proposals in Congress set up neither a single payer system nor government provided health care.