How is medical insurance that is only available to high-ranking state officials anything like socialized medicine, which is available to everyone? Just because its subsidized?
I think Taz is pointing out the hypocracy of it all. Republicans consistently campaign against the very thing they take advantage of: federally subsidized health care.
What I find most ironic is that a lot of my dyed in the wool conservative friends don't even understand what socialized health care is. One guy I know is getting close to 65. I asked him if he is going to opt out of Medicare since it is socialized medicine. He game me a strange look and said, "Medicare isn't socialized medicine, I payed taxes to fund the system." He just didn't get it. In the mind of many Republicans, socialized medicine is conflated with welfare. They think it is a give away.
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