Now Congress and staff exempt from Obamacare (Pelosi, health care, premium)
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While they will still have to pretend to be taking part in the program, 75% of their premiums will be paid by you and me. So big business is exempt, many unions and companies friendly to Obama have receives waivers and congress has 3/4 of their costs paid for by the taxpayer. Only the poor slobs in the middle class and small business get screwed by Obama. This law needs to be defunded. Hill gets Obamacare fix - John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com
They are not exempt. They still have to sign up.
Their issue was that they couldn't get the government subsidies and would have to pay the full cost.
They didn't want to pay the full cost.
So now taxpayers will subsidize their premiums.
It's all taxpayer money in the end..whether it comes from Obamacare or the General Fund.
Pretty sad isn't it when workers in Congress and Congress themselves don't want to pay their full premiums.
Most of them wouldn't have qualified anyway with the 400% FPL limit.
We are going to see the deficit SOAR next year with all the subsidies Obamacare is going to be paying.
400% of poverty line is a means tested program that will now include middle class making over $50K a year.
Who would have thought that $50K a year qualified you for a means tested program ?
And that is what Obamacare is..another means tested welfare program.
While they will still have to pretend to be taking part in the program, 75% of their premiums will be paid by you and me. So big business is exempt, many unions and companies friendly to Obama have receives waivers and congress has 3/4 of their costs paid for by the taxpayer. Only the poor slobs in the middle class and small business get screwed by Obama. This law needs to be defunded. Hill gets Obamacare fix - John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com
that makes it seem like it actually will work eh? Just have other people work hard to pay for your health care, it's the only thing that can put "affordable" in the Affordable Health Care Act. Except unless you are the person working your ass off to pay for some bureaucrat's health care.
that makes it seem like it actually will work eh? Just have other people work hard to pay for your health care, it's the only thing that can put "affordable" in the Affordable Health Care Act. Except unless you are the person working your ass off to pay for some bureaucrat's health care.
And guess who the "taxpayer" really is ?
The middle class.
The bottom doesn't pay taxes and neither does the top.
While they will still have to pretend to be taking part in the program, 75% of their premiums will be paid by you and me. So big business is exempt, many unions and companies friendly to Obama have receives waivers and congress has 3/4 of their costs paid for by the taxpayer. Only the poor slobs in the middle class and small business get screwed by Obama. This law needs to be defunded. Hill gets Obamacare fix - John Bresnahan and Jake Sherman - POLITICO.com
While the link is accurate, the thread title is false ... like so many on P&OC.
The only group of citizens specifically written into the Affordable Care Act is Congress and some of their staff members. They *must*, according to the law, participate and get their health insurance coverage through the health exchanges being set up under the Act.
It was a purely political and stupid move. As stated in the article:
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The problem was rooted in the original text of the Affordable Care Act. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) inserted a provision which said members of Congress and their aides must be covered by plans “created” by the law or “offered through an exchange.”
The "Obamacare fix" (using the phrase used in the article) does nothing to change the basic requirement that Members of Congress and some of their staff must participate in the health exchanges. The only thing that has been clarified (since the provision that Congress must participate was poorly written) is that the federal government will continue to pay the same percentage for the health plans for Congress and some of their staff as it currently pays as part of the Federal Employees Health Benefits program.
Congress should have just stayed in the FEHB - all the plans offered in FEHB already comply or will comply with the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. But - of course - someone had to grandstand, probably to "send a message to the folks back home" ... like the asinine waste of time and money that all those House votes to repeal some or all of the Affordable Care Act have been.
Sure. you are from Northern Va and are probably one of those I'll be subsidizing. It was grandstanding to ask congress to pay the same that the middle class pays? More koolaid for you.
Any member of Congress that voted for this pig of a healthcare law should be forced to comply with it just as it was written when they voted YEA. Any member of Congress that voted NO should get the exemption.
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