Call Out Mike Simpson's Hypocrisy

Click here to see the form we'll fax to your representative. Rep. Mike Simpson voted to repeal affordable health care for 32 million Americans, but hasn't opted out of his own generous federal health benefits. Call out this health care hypocrisy now.

Who would have the audacity to vote for repealing affordable health care for 32 million Americans while gladly accepting generous, federally subsidized insurance for themselves?

Your Idaho representative — Rep. Simpson — along with 236 other congressional health care hypocrites.

Rep. Mike Simpson voted to repeal affordable health care for 32 million Americans, but hasn't opted out of his own generous federal health benefits. 

Over the past two years, especially during the election season, Republicans and a select few Democrats did everything they could to derail health care reform. They fueled fears and misinformation, throwing around terms like "socialist," "fascist," "government takeover," and of course "death panels."

Now they've fulfilled their campaign promise and voted for a full repeal. But what most of them haven't done is given up the affordable, subsidized care that they voted yesterday to deny so many of us.¹

Call out the health care hypocrisy. Click here and we will send a fax to Rep. Simpson on your behalf, with the actual form he can submit to cancel his federal health insurance.

The hypocrisy of the health care repeal effort has known no bounds.

And yesterday the health care hypocrites went all the way, voting to repeal the entire health care bill — without offering alternatives, without dialing back their anti-government rhetoric or changing the bill's outrageous official title ("Repealing the Job-Killing Health Care Law Act"), and without repealing the generous federal insurance benefits they receive and have worked so hard to deny to others.

As progressives, we value a system that helps Americans get the care they need. And new polling indicates that the majority of Americans want to keep or strengthen reforms that help provide affordable care.²

If Rep. Simpson doesn't believe the federal government should play a role in that — fine. But rather than voting to deny affordable care to millions of Americans and allowing insurance companies to discriminate against children on the basis of pre-existing conditions, he should practice what he preaches and start by canceling his own federal care — care that you and I pay for.

Repeal proponents have long argued the wisdom and availability of private insurance. So these representatives should have no trouble getting great private health coverage from the insurance companies they've been representing so well.

Tell Rep. Simpson to practice what he preaches. Send him the form to cancel his federal health insurance.

Thanks for taking a stand against health care hypocrisy,

Elijah Zarlin, Campaign Manager CREDO Action

¹"Do As I Say, Not As I Do: 97% Of House GOP Still Holding On To Their Congressional Health Plans" Think Progress, January 18, 2011²"Repealing Progress" The Progress Report, January 18th, 2011