Ed Schultz called out Scott Brown's hypocrisy for being more than happy to take advantage or the provision on the Affordable Care Act which allows his daughter to remain insured, but he's not so worried about whether other Americans might have the same benefit.
Scott Brown Benefits From Obamacare, Despite Supporting Its Repeal:
Sen. Scott Brown (R-MA) ran as the 41st vote against President Obama’s health care reform bill in a special election to replace the late Sen. Ted Kennedy and voted three times to repeal the law and take way health care coverage from the 30 million Americans who will benefit from the law by 2014 and the millions who are already taking advantage of its provisions.
But yesterday, this Tea Party champion and great opponent of Obamacare admitted something astonishing: his 23 year old daughter is one of the 2.5 million young Americans who are benefiting from a regulation that allows young people to stay on their parents’ health care plan until age 26:
“Of course I do,’’ the Massachusetts Republican told the Globe. Brown is insuring his daughter Ayla, a professional singer who is 23 years old, under a widely popular provision of the law requiring that family plans cover children up to age 26.
Brown said the extended use of his congressional coverage is not inconsistent with his criticism of the federal law, enacted over his objection after he won a special election in 2010, because the same coverage could be required by individual states.
His opponent Elizabeth Warren did not waste any time responding to Brown's hypocrisy -- Elizabeth Warren Slams Scott Brown For Having It Both Ways On Health Care (VIDEO):
Massachussetts Senate Dem hopeful Elizabeth Warren sounded off Tuesday against Scott Brown for availing his family of a key “Obamacare” benefit, while simultaneously campaigning to repeal the law.
“Scott Brown campaigned against health care reform and when he got the Senate he voted to block health care reform. We just learned today back in Mass that he is using that same health care reform act to make sure that his adult daughter gets covered on his health insurance policy, at the same moment he wants to repeal it for everyone else,” she said. “This is wrong.”
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