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Congressional Staffers Complain About Double Standard in Health Care Law
FOXNews ^ | Jana Winter

Posted on 03/25/2010 11:23:39 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy

Select congressional leadership staffers -- some of whom wrote the health insurance act -- are not governed by new rules governing millions of Americans and the rest of their colleagues on how they buy insurance -- and the special exemption has the Hill hopping mad... ..and neither will White House staffers and Cabinet members -- nor the president himself. They will be allowed to keep their current plans, which are offered to all other federal employees.

And now many congressional aides who like their current health insurance policies and will be forced to switch are asking: Why? They want to know: If an exchange is good enough for them, why isn't it good enough for the people who wrote the plan? Why isn't it good enough for the president and his Cabinet?

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KEYWORDS: 111th; bhohealthcare; congress; democrats; healthcare; liberalfascism; obama; obamacare; staffers
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Don't these silly staffers know that on the Animal Farm "All Animals are Equal". But some animals are more equal than others.
1 posted on 03/25/2010 11:23:39 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy
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To: Upstate NY Guy

They are eating their own now and really don’t care.


2 posted on 03/25/2010 11:25:25 AM PDT by RC2
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3 posted on 03/25/2010 11:26:33 AM PDT by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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To: RC2

I’m waiting to see what happens to Tricare (military) trembling with fear.....


4 posted on 03/25/2010 11:26:58 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (The fire is in the minds of men, not in the roofs of buildings)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

When you sleep with the dogs, don’t complain when you wake up with fleas, Staffers.


5 posted on 03/25/2010 11:29:03 AM PDT by OB1kNOb ( I WILL NOT COMPLY !)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Some pigs are more equal than others.


6 posted on 03/25/2010 11:29:09 AM PDT by Uncle Miltie (REPEAL 0BAMACARE NOW!)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Good analogy in #1. T

This is good though because it looks bad for them. “Oh, but it was just an oversight. They really meant to include themselves, It doesnt matter anyway because the american is getting all those new great benefits” just watch them say this.


7 posted on 03/25/2010 11:31:47 AM PDT by sickoflibs (( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is spending you demand stupid"))
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Quoting Biden: This is F-ing big.

To Staffers: STFU. you are the ones pushing this c**p, NOW LIVE with it.


8 posted on 03/25/2010 11:34:26 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

We need names...these committee staffers who wrote this bill should be publicly outed and not allowed to hide anonymously behind their corruption and arrogance.


9 posted on 03/25/2010 11:40:24 AM PDT by Azzurri
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To: Upstate NY Guy

LOL LOL LOL

Too much fun.


10 posted on 03/25/2010 11:42:22 AM PDT by Woebama (Never, never, never quit)
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To: Upstate NY Guy

Three words:

“EQUAL PROTECTION CLAUSE”.

This alone is enough to get the ENTIRE thing tossed by SCOTUS.


11 posted on 03/25/2010 11:46:55 AM PDT by jstolzen (All it takes for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing - Edmund Burke)
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The law says you pay a $2000 fine each year you don't subscribe to healthcare insurance, and when you get sick you just enroll in the insurance and get your benefits immediately. If those things are the case then that's equivalent to saying your health insurance costs $2000 per year, or when you get sick. The concept of a "fine" is just semantics.
12 posted on 03/25/2010 11:48:56 AM PDT by frposty (I'm a simpleton)
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Does anyone know exactly where in the bill this exemption is?


13 posted on 03/25/2010 11:54:04 AM PDT by Roos_Girl (The world is full of educated derelicts. - Calvin Coolidge)
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I heard that IRS does not get involved unless you pay fine rather than pay for health care insurance...something to do with a fine is considered a tax. I don’t know if this matters or not, but I don’t like the IRS I know that.


14 posted on 03/25/2010 12:02:42 PM PDT by ncpatriot
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The IRS is incompetent and does not know its own extremely complicated rules.


15 posted on 03/25/2010 12:06:36 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: frposty
The law says you pay a $2000 fine each year you don't subscribe to healthcare insurance, and when you get sick you just enroll in the insurance and get your benefits immediately.

And this destroys the entire model of how insurance was designed to work.

Currently, the insured pay premiums for years and only start collectiing benefits when they get sick...Now, the uninsured will get sick, walk into an office to get insured, pay some kind of minor startup fee, and start filing massive claims. And the insurance companies can no longer deny them for pre-existing conditions. They will be forced BY FEDERAL LAW to provide coverage.

If the no policy fine is less than it would cost to keep insurance, everyone in the moocher class will certainly choose the latter route.

Insurance as we know it will be bankrupt inside of 10 years. Hello single payer.
16 posted on 03/25/2010 12:07:38 PM PDT by bamahead (Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
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“And now many congressional aides who like their current health insurance policies and will be forced to switch are asking: Why? They want to know: If an exchange is good enough for them, why isn’t it good enough for the people who wrote the plan? Why isn’t it good enough for the president and his Cabinet?”

Welcome to the world of the peasants


17 posted on 03/25/2010 12:13:37 PM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: frposty
Agreed. With Obamacare most employees would be better off if their employer dropped their current health insurance and gave them an equivalent raise. Then the employee can pay regular doctor visits out of pocket. If they get real sick they can buy pre-existing health insurance for $2000.

Of course the insurance companies will go out of business because they will only be selling insurance to people who are real sick.

18 posted on 03/25/2010 12:23:24 PM PDT by Upstate NY Guy (Gen 15:16 The iniquity of the Amorite is not yet complete.)
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Okay, is there anyway to find out what “insurance” obama had before he was elected to the senate? As you know, muslims don’t believe in insurance. I’d be willing to bet islamabama doens’t beieve in it either.


19 posted on 03/25/2010 12:27:21 PM PDT by Terry Mross (God, will you please send Pat Leahy to Murtha's house?)
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To: bamahead

I have a question. Does it say anywhere in this bill the maximum amount of premiums that can be charged? If not, when the uninsured sick come into the insurance office he learns to sign up will cost $10,000 dollars.

Another question. What if I don’t have the $2,000 and get sick? Am I covered by something else? Or am I “deemed” to be Amish at that point?


20 posted on 03/25/2010 12:30:44 PM PDT by Terry Mross (God, will you please send Pat Leahy to Murtha's house?)
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