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Yes. The House Rules Committee before Saturday 11/20 vote on the Democrats' bill rejected 11 amendments that required Congress and other government officials to enroll in the same federal insurance ("public option") plan proposed for the American people. Vincent Morris, communications director for the Democrat-controlled House Rules Committee, told CNSNews.com that the amendments were rejected because no one, including Congress, will be forced to sign on to government-run health care. It will happen through the tiniest changes in current plans that will FORCE you into the public option. Since private plans can't compete with the "non-profit" gov't plan, there goes YOUR choice. "The reason we didn't support those amendments is because the public option was created precisely to give the American people a choice between private and public [insurance], Morris said. "Given that all Americans have a choice about whether to join the public option, we thought it didn't make any sense to force members of Congress to join." So the LIARS claim that "they can choose a gov't option....if they want." But THEY don't want to and will keep their cadillac plan for life that we pay for while we suffer.
NOE: The above is out dated and NOT CORRECT. Members of Congress and their staffs are not exempt from the mandate. In fact members of Congress and their staff members are RESTRICTED to purchasing insurance through their state exchanges once they are set up. In effect they have LESS CHOICE than normal citizens.