Posted on 07/30/2017 3:15:16 AM PDT by Libloather
...........you may be right, but with O care certain to collapse on it’s own I don’t think Trump will want to piss off every Congressional Staffer and their wives/spouses.
Instead, he will just wait for it’s death and funeral.
The GOP is willing to throw the 2018 Mid-Terms and allow themselves to be in the minority, in hopes of Democrats throwing Trump out of office.
Those aholes in the GOPe function better as the minority party. Then they don’t have to make decisions. As useless a bunch of clowns as we have ever had.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/healthcare/326384-congress-should-end-its-exemption-from-obamacare
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You want to help members of Congress better understand the financial pain their constituents are feeling as a result of ObamaCare, with its skyrocketing premiums, and give them a personal stake in the law’s repeal? Remove that illegal subsidy. Staff and spouses will start screaming bloody murder.
Of course, that’s why they sought and received this illegal subsidy in the first place. Back in 2013, as the January 1, 2014 implementation date for ObamaCare’s individual and employer mandates approached, members of Congress were worried less about how the law would affect their constituents than they were about how the law would affect themselves and their staffs. Buried in the law’s 2,000-plus pages was Section 1312(d)(3)(D), which requires members and their staffs to leave behind their generous Federal Employee Health Benefits Program health plans and instead purchase their health insurance directly through the ObamaCare exchanges, without benefit of an employer subsidy. That requirement, like the individual and employer mandates, would kick in on January 1, 2014.
After heavy lobbying by leaders of both parties on both sides of the Capitol dome, President Obama came to their rescue. He directed the Office of Personnel Management to issue a rule – now codified as 78 Fed. Reg. 60653-01 – declaring Congress itself a small business (!), the necessary subterfuge to set them up for the kicker: Because Congress was deemed a “small business,” “the DC Health Link Small Business Market administered by the DC Health Benefit Exchange Authority is the appropriate SHOP from which Members of Congress and designated congressional staff will purchase health insurance in order to receive a Government contribution.”
It was necessary to find a way to let members and staff into the small business exchange for a simple reason – it was the only way they could maintain their “employer contribution” toward their premiums.
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Gee. Ya thank?
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ObamaCare Section 1312(d)(3)(D)
They should be afraid.
Put mccain under 0bamacare then give him a 5 year wait time for his cancer treatment.
Or rather the GOP should not only be afraid of seeing more members of the House and Senate being primarried, but also forcing President Trump to the EO route to put this ACA stuff out of its misery.
More than they fear the travesty known as Obamacare?
I’ll be calling Gardner’s office and leaving a message that I’ll be working against him in the primary.
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