LIKED this comment on a NYT blog:

You want to get Health Care insurance reform passed?

Simple.

Terminate government paid group medical insurance for any and all elected officials — federal, state, county, municipal — and require them all to buy their own individual policies on the open market until universal health care insurance is signed into law.

Once it’s passed, all elected officials names would be entitled to the equivalent of Medicare coverage (or its equivalent public option plan) at government expense. Anything beyond that, they pay for out of their own pockets.

I guarantee you we’ll get meaningful medical insurance reform passed before the year is out. Oh, and I suspect the public option won’t have any trouble passing …
— Menno van Wyk

Indeed. I assume all Republican members of Congress, so fearful of "government-run" health insurance, have already declined to participate in the government-run insurance cooperative open to all elected members and instead are buying individual insurance on the open market.

Surely they've done this as a matter of principle and to avoid the appearance of hypocrisy.