What’s under the bathroom sink... outside in the light of day.

MONEY WHERE THE MOUTH IS DEPARTMENT:

Government health care is evidently not all that bad or people like Senate Minority Leader Mitch Mc Connell (R-Ky.), Senator John McCain, (R-Ariz.), Senator Kit Bond (R-Mo.), Representative Roy Blunt, (R-Mo.) and Senator George Voinovich, (R-Ohio) would have chosen some other solution for their health care needs rather than Government facilities in Washington when they had elective procedures done. McConnell, who has warned that “a government takeover of health care” would “take away the care that people have and are perfectly satisfied with.” In February 2003, McConnell elected to go to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesday, Maryland, to have an elective coronary artery bypass surgery done. Senator McCain has encouraged and applauded the town hall protesters who were, in his words, revolting “against a government-run health system.” In May of 2000, McCain went to Bethesday Naval Hospital to have a potentially lethal melanoma removed from his left temple. Senator Bond has railed against the expensive costs to government of national health care programs suggesting that quality is inevitably reduced under such plans. In April 2003, however, he traveled to Bethesday Naval Hospital to undergo hip replacement surgery in an attempt to alleviate degenerative arthritis in his left hip. Senator Voinovich is fond of saying that a “bureaucratic Washington-run government plan is not the answer” to America’s health care needs. A Washington-run government plan was obviously the answer for him and Bond and McCain and McConnell. Actually one of the best examples of the double standard is Representative Blunt’s having elected Bethesday Naval Hospital for two procedures BEFORE comparing government-run health care to an elephant, stomping on or killing off the mice of the private insurance industry. He underwent surgery to remove his left kidney in July 2002 and then went back to the same government-financed and government-run hospital when he had prostate surgery after having been diagnosed with early-stage prostate cancer.

SOURCE: Sam Stein reporting for the Huffington Post, September 2, 2009.