We at Greg Laden’s Blog wish Senator McCain a speedy recovery and hope he is well. But we also urge him to think about his privilege and not take access to the sort of health care he has from other Americans.

McCain voted against the move, according to news reports.

Is your complaint that you and dean agree on something? Maybe you can show us where dean said you were wrong so we can see if your post at 44 is at all relevant to dean’s post at 41

So, maybe, like, spouses of senators or their family members? Tell me, does FEHBP include a spouse or family member from being included? ‘cos if so, a Senator with a wife who works for a congressional comittee could be covered by their wife’s insurance and not have to use any purchased plan.

An odd accusation given your “Well, that’ what this site said” defences.

Under the Affordable Care Act, members of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate and their office staffs who want employer coverage generally have to buy it on the health insurance exchange. Before the ACA passed in 2010, they were eligible to be covered under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. (People working for congressional committees who are not on a member’s office staff may still be covered under FEHBP.)
The members of Congress and their staffs choose from among 57 gold plans from four insurers sold on the DC Health Link’s small business marketplace this year.
Approximately 11,000 are enrolled, according to Adam Hudson, a spokesperson for the exchange. The government pays about three-quarters of the cost of the premium, and workers pay the rest. They aren’t eligible for federal tax credits that reduce the size of insurance premiums.
For some other members of Congress, declining exchange coverage was a political statement.
“There are several who, because of animus to Obamacare, rejected the offer of coverage, and either buy on their own or get it through a spouse,” said Sabrina Corlette, a research professor at Georgetown University’s Center on Health Insurance Reforms.
Proposed bills to replace the ACA don’t affect this provision of the law, said Timothy Jost, a professor emeritus of law at Washington and Lee University School of Law in Lexington, Va., who has written widely on the regulation of health care and its reform.

For the other one: police transcripts from final investigstions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/16/trayvon-martin-911-audio-_n_1354909.html

It appears the ‘witness’ that says Zimmerman followed Martin is the last one, as she’s the only one who says any events before ‘someone was screaming help help help’. She says she saw them talking, nothing about following as near as I can tell.