In our networked world, nothing ever goes away, but nothing seems to last very long either. ... Information these days is a commodity; understanding is scarce.
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(Source: politico.com)
In our networked world, nothing ever goes away, but nothing seems to last very long either. ... Information these days is a commodity; understanding is scarce.
A conservative Maryland physician elected to Congress on an anti-Obamacare platform surprised fellow freshmen (...) by demanding to know why his government-subsidized health care plan takes a month to kick in.
Republican Andy Harris, an anesthesiologist who defeated freshman Democrat Frank Kratovil on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, reacted incredulously when informed that federal law mandated that his government-subsidized health care policy would take effect on Feb. 1 – 28 days after his Jan. 3rd swearing-in.
“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. (...)
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.