Congress has become the most elitist body that has ever governed the US. It routinely exempts itself from legislation, however the latest takes the cake. They have allowed themselves to be exempt from ObamaCrapCare. It seems that it was going to cost the staffers too much money and that they might leave government service. That would be a tragedy, right? Wrong!
By taking this action, it clearly shows the internal numbers that Congress has been receiving show that ObamaCrapCare is going to be very expensive and will not fulfill it intended goal of lowering costs. Isn't it time that we, the poor slobs who will be subjected to this piece of crap legislation, also get relief?
The unions who fought hard for ObamaCrapCare now want out. Companies, especially those politically connected, around the country have asked for exemptions and in many cases have received them. The only people who are going to be stuck with mess are the small business people who provide most of the jobs.
This latest effort by Congress to exempt themselves is hypocrisy gone wild. These people are supposed to be the "representatives" of those who elected them. It appears as if they do not view themselves in the same light. They are the elite and the ruling class needs special benefits. We say hogwash.
Revolutions start when the ruling class provides itself with special benefits that are unavailable for the rest of the country. Will the ObamaCrapCare waiver be the straw that turns our country upside down or are we so meek that we will accept another abuse by Congress?
Conservative Tom
Congress exempts itself from Obamacare, can keep subsidized plans
** FILE ** House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks to reporters ... more >
Members of Congress and their staffs won’t face potentially massive hikes in their health care premiums next year as many had feared because of a clause in President Obama’s health care overhaul — causing at least one Republican senator to ask, literally, “What the flip?”
The federal government plans to issue a ruling saying the government can keep contributing to health care premiums of Congressmen and their staffers, Politico reported.
Sen. Charles E. Grassley, Iowa Republican, put a provision into the original law saying that Congressmen and their aides have to be covered by plans “created” by the law or “offered through an exchange.”
Under the old system, the federal government contributed to about 75 percent of premiums; members and staffers are covered through the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program, but it was unclear if the program could subsidize premiums of plans on the exchanges.
Enrollment in the exchanges — marketplaces where consumers can shop for and buy for insurance — is scheduled to begin Oct. 1, and both Democrats and Republicans are planning significant public relations campaigns over the law during Congress’s August recess.
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat, said Friday that members of Congress and their staffs must enroll in the exchanges, as required by the law.
“It was important for us to get this information before we left for August because October 1 is right around the corner,” she said.
Mrs. Pelosi said staff did tell her it would be a problem.
“But I think the main target of that piece of the legislation was the members of Congress, and the collateral damage was to staff. Now that doubt has been removed,” she said. “Members of Congress, of course, would always been in the exchanges. And now there was a differentiation on staff, if you were leadership staff or if you were personal staff, and that’s what we’re waiting to see, the actual final language, because we haven’t seen that, but that’s what we’re working on now.
Meanwhile, Republicans attacked the announcement, with Sen. David Vitter blasting it as a “behind-closed-doors deal, announced right after Congress is safely away from the crime scene.”
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