Posted on 04/26/2017 7:43:26 AM PDT by mikelets456
Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.
House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on pre-existing conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.
Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) who authored this amendment confirmed this was the case: members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping this Obamacare regulations. Health law expert Tim Jost flagged me to this particular issue.
A bit of background is helpful here. Obamacare requires all members of Congress and their staff to purchase coverage on the individual market, just like Obamacare enrollees. The politics of that plank were simple enough, meant to demonstrate that if the coverage in this law were good enough for Americans than it should be good enough for their representations in Washington.
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Well when they initiated Obamacare they made sure Congress could fit into the small business category to get better rates or something like that. So this fits right in there with that. They’re always taking care of themselves first and foremost.
They also listed Congress as a small business. That fits in there with something to do with the rates.
geez! can these guys get any more tone deaf? this kinda BS is why they were elected in the first place and they’re kicking the BS into the faces of those who voted for them...
they no longer deserve support
If it’s established that there’s no fine, thus no enforced mandate, that might be the best we can get at this point. Competition will emerge and capitalism will do its magic. Those of us who are so inclined will retake control of our bodies from Big Insurance, Big Medicine, and the feds. It will be a two tiered system, with those who choose the federal program getting exactly what they deserve.
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