Posted on 04/30/2013 6:20:50 PM PDT by mdittmar
A new Republican House proposal would push federal workers off their employer-sponsored health plan and onto the insurance exchanges being established under the Affordable Care Act.
Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.), chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, introduced the bill Friday after talk on the Hill that Democrats were trying to exempt members of Congress and their staffs from a provision in current law that requires them to enroll in the exchanges in 2014.
Camp’s measure would extend that policy to all federal workers except active-duty military members and postal workers.
“If the Obamacare exchanges are good enough for the hardworking Americans and small businesses the law claims to help, then they should be good enough for the president, vice president, Congress and federal employees,” said Camp spokeswoman Sarah Swinehart.
Most employees who would be affected by the proposal are enrolled in the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
Labor groups that represent federal workers oppose the Camp proposal.
“It seems to be a political gimmick to help lawmakers undo an amendment to the Affordable Care Act that was meant to be a poison pill,” said American Federation of Government Employees President J. David Cox. “Federal employees rely on FEHBP during their working lives and in retirement, and Congress should not play around with eliminating this crucial element of federal compensation to make a political point.”
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“...except active-duty military members and postal workers...”
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What’s so special about the freaking post office?
Personally I think it would be poetic justice. All of these Unions got their membership to vote for the dems that pushed it through so they should be required to live with what they wanted everyone else to be stuck with.
Sauce for the goose....
“What’s so special about the freaking post office?”
They don’t want to pick a fight with these idiots, because they know that it’s just a matter of time before the USPS (at least as we know it now) is going to cease to exist.
They have one tough union,I know,my Dad was President of a local;)
Everyone should have to endure their “fair share” of suffering. That goes for those foghorn buffoons on Capitol Hill too. Those bass turds wrote and passed this garbage, they should have to live with the consequences of their dumbass actions.
Why does’t GOP simply say that the states have never delegated to the federal government via the Constitution the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for public healthcare purposes?
Agree.
Shove it up their backside too.
Say that to who?
They go postal?
Also rarely deliver all your mail?
When is the GOP going to END OBAMACARE?
Playing peeing contests with Dems over ObamaCare...extending it to Illegal Aliens, Islamic Terrorists, and Federal Workers is not ENDING OBAMACARE
Wake up People
Getting Obama elected: $1 billion.
Getting Obamacare passed: Months of propaganda and political strongarming against overwhelming negative public opinion.
Having to drink from the very punchbowl you placed the turd into: Priceless.
Don't hold your breath.
Because by doing so they’d invalidate 99% of laws on the books.
Not saying that’s a bad thing, just that it’ll never happen.
OBAMACARE is ended,no one is going to pay.
yes!
End Obamacare? The GOP won’t even defund it. Remember all those campaign promises about defunding Obamacare once they got (re)elected? Not a peep out of ‘em now that they’re safely ensconced in the halls of power. Shameful.
When Zero said that you can keep your health insurance if you like it, he was referring only to federal workers, not us peons.
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