When most Congresspeople are millionaires, what sense is making their health insurance lifetime?

Were you aware that even after leaving Congress, an ex-Congressperson can continue availing themselves of the taxpayer-financed health insurance (which is available to sitting Senators and House members)?

They should have to give that up once they leave Congress.

Even though news commentators are generally not eligible for the same taxpayer-financed health insurance which former members of Congress are, they make $84 million over three years (or whatever it is) - surely they can pay for their own health insurance, no?

Let them go scrounge for a plan like the rest of us do.

Isn't that taxation without representation?

The job certainly doesn't pay that much. They don't all come from wealthy families. WHERE DOES THE MONEY COME FROM? How do they get it while being in Congress?

HOW does it happen? :shrug:

Since the President doesn't even make half a million (or didn't when Bill was serving), and neither of them worked on Wall Street, it is an interesting question to ponder.

GWB's salary was twice that of Clinton. Clinton was earning Nixon's salary!

The Roosevelts and Trumans lost money. FDR counted on his mother and Eleanor earned about $75K a year and gave most of it away. Eleanor also never accepted her widow's pension.

http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/moneymag/0712/gallery.candidates.moneymag/index.html

Clinton's money
Net Worth: $34.9 million

Where she got it

When Bill Clinton first ran for President in 1992, Hillary provided most of the couple's income working for the Rose law firm in Little Rock; he earned only $35,000 a year as governor of Arkansas.

Although she takes in $165,200 a year as a senator, these days Bill is breadwinner-in-chief. His presidential pension is $201,000 a year, and he grabbed a $12 million advance for his 2001 memoir, "My Life." (Her "Living History" won an advance of $8 million and $7 million in royalties.)

But it's been Bill's great gift for gab that has really feathered the Clintons' nest. He earned an astounding $41 million speaking to groups and corporations in the first six years since he left office. Standard fee: $150,000. The fact that he may be married to the next President can only burnish his star power.

This was from a MONEY article in 2007. Most estimates place the Clinton fortune TODAY at approximaty $40 to $50 million.

:rofl:

:D ;) I never claimed to be good at math, you know! :mad: :rofl:

doesn't really care about, just as long as they get to hand over that big check

Bob Dole worked in public service his entire life, but he became a millionaire.

Screwed over, chewed up, and spit out to rot away.

People in Congress just do NOT get that Americans do not have the same luxuries and privileges that they have offered and given to them. And if they do know, then they do not give a shit about the people they claim to represent.

for a long time (ok, so not here, but still...). As far as I can see NO ONE is happy with getting a bill please any bill passed. Those serving in Congress have no skin in the game at all.