Is Congress exempt from Obama universal health care plan?

The internet is an amazing place; it seems I spend half my waking hours doing something with a computer. Unfortunately, the speed and ease of communicating also allows for the broad dissemination of misinformation.  When it comes to health care, I try to find misinformation to let you know the facts. 

Here is the latest example of misleading inaccurate information:

FINALLY, SOME ONE ASKED HIM THE QUESTION! ON “ABC-TV” Monday October 12, 2009 DURING THE  “NETWORK SPECIAL ON HEALTH CARE”….   OBAMA WAS ASKED:

“MR.  PRESIDENT WILL YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GIVE UP YOUR CURRENT HEALTH CARE PROGRAM AND JOIN THE NEW ‘UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE PROGRAM’ THAT THE REST OF US WILL BE ON????”   
  
THERE WAS A STONEY SILENCE AS OBAMA IGNORED THE QUESTION AND CHOSE NOT TO ANSWER IT!!!   IN ADDITION, A NUMBER OF SENATORS WERE ASKED THE SAME QUESTION AND THEIR RESPONSE WAS.”WE WILL THINK ABOUT IT.”   AND THEY DID. IT WAS ANNOUNCED TODAY ON THE NEWS THAT THE “KENNEDY HEALTH CARE BILL” WAS WRITTEN INTO THE NEW HEALTH CARE REFORM INITIATIVE ENSURING THAT THAT CONGRESS WILL BE  100% EXEMPT !

SO, THIS GREAT NEW HEALTH CARE PLAN THAT IS GOOD FOR YOU AND I… IS NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR OBAMA, HIS FAMILY OR CONGRESS…?  

WE (THE AMERICAN PUBLIC) NEED TO STOP THIS PROPOSED DEBACLE ASAP!!!! THIS IS TOTALLY WRONG!!!!!

PERSONALLY, I CAN ONLY ACCEPT A UNIVERSAL HEALTH CARE OVERHAUL THAT EXTENDS TO EVERYONE… NOT JUST US LOWLY CITIZENS… WHILE THE WASHINGTON “ELITE” KEEP RIGHT ON WITH THEIR GOLD-PLATED HEALTH CARE COVERAGES.

The fact is that all members of Congress and the President are eligible to participate in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.  That program offers an array of choices from HMOs to traditional insurance.  For that coverage there is a substantial monthly premium, in some cases several hundred dollars per month.  This program is not unlike the health benefits offered by thousands of employers across the country.  

“Join the universal health care program that the rest of us will be on?”  What program is that, there is no such thing in the health care reform legislation; the American people are not being put on anything.  Somewhere in this uninformed person’s thinking is the issue of a public option and whether Congress would be subject to the public option without other choices.  Well, the public option did not happen and while there are many in Congress (not as many as before November 2) who would still fight for it, the chances of that happening in the next decade are slim to none.