What's good for the masses should be good for all on Capitol Hill

As expected, the new health-care legislation contains loopholes that exempt certain congressional staffers.

Rep. Bill Posey, R-Rockledge, saw this coming and today joined 17 other members of Congress in introducing a bill that would eliminate the special health care reform exemption for certain congressional staff so that all legislative branch employees are treated the same.

Seems that the new law moved some staffers into the new health care exchange and left those who wrote the bill in their current health care system.Posey's bill corrects that by ensuring that all legislative branch employees are moved into the new health care exchanges.

It appears as though some of the folks who participated in drafting the health care takeover, including White House staff and the Democrat leadership staff, exempted themselves from it, said Posey, an unstinting critic of the plan.

This bill would simply move everyone that works for Congress into the new government run health care exchanges. Shouldnt all of Congress be under the same mandate that they are imposing on the rest of the country?

Rep. Pete Olson, R-Texas, said, If this health care plan is so wonderful everyone should be jumping at the chance to participate.If this was an unintentional oversight, then this legislation corrects it and should move through Congress swiftly to provide parity for all.

Vegas oddsmakers set the odds of passage as somewhat less favorable than the Tampa Bay Bucs winning the 2011 Super Bowl.

That last part isn't totally true, but you get the idea.