No health insurance for congresscritters till they pass universal health care bill. Wait, what?

Presidential hopeful (ha) John Edwards says that if he wins the election (psh) on his first day in office, he will put forth legislation to pull health care from all congresscritters until they pass his universal health care bill. Now I'm just a kid, but doesn't that seem just a wee bit hypocritical?

Now on to the meat of the matter, Universal health care. Woot.

When Grendel's mother...er...Mr. Rodham Clinton. Says she wants to tax the people who actually work for a living to provide health care to the people who don't. Basic socialized (communist) medicine. At the lowly fee of $110 billion dollars. A year. Compared to Operation Iraqi freedom and on going operations at $173 billion. Over 6 years.

So lets do some math here. Spend $110 billion a year on people who already have access to health care and democracy in general, or spend $ 288 million dollars a year granting oppressed people the mere opportunity to decide who their president will be and how the will spend their tax dollars.

But what do I know? I'm just a dumb kid.