Posted on 08/15/2015 10:09:36 AM PDT by Oldpuppymax
So eager were congressional Democrats to sign Barack Obama’s healthcare servitude plan into law that nary a one recognized the fact that passage would effectively end their top of the line, taxpayer funded health insurance coverage.
And this would be just one of the unpleasant Affordable Care Act realities to take the legislation’s authors by surprise. For they would also lose some $10,000 in yearly premium assistance which had for decades been part of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP). “In effect, the Affordable Care Act gave members of Congress a $10,000 pay cut.”
But that Washington lawmakers should be ravaged to the tune of $10,000—even as a result of their own legislative efforts—well that sort of inconvenience is reserved for commoners, after all.
So the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)—with some slight urging on by Barack Obama—decided it might ignore that portion of the Affordable Care Act which forbids providing generous subsidies to congressional employees.
But not even this convenient bit of contempt for the law would eliminate other problems the Affordable Care Act would cause its authors. Perhaps the greatest of these “prohibits employers from making contributions to their employee’s coverage through the American Health Benefits Exchange (ObamaCare Exchange)(my caps)
Difficult as it is to believe, members of Congress are employees of the American people. Their benefits, salaries and the like are handled by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). If Congress wanted to take advantage of the generous, ongoing premium assistance illegally afforded its members...
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The EXEMPT undocumented Democrats:
"We are above you scum, and above the Law.
If you disagree, then expect
our typical IRS attacks against your family.
"At the foundation of our civil liberties lies
the principle that denies to government officials
an exceptional position before the law and which
subjects them to the same rules of conduct
that are commands to the citizen."
Justice Louis D. Brandeis
Fire em all. They are just employees.
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