OK, let me offer a further compromise as a starter. The Office of the President is special, so let’s just force Congress (both houses) onto Obamacare, without subsidies. After all, they write the laws and should be subject to them.
if it’s soooo F’n good for the serfs, shouldn’t it be just as good as the elites?????
Yes, John Edwards, There are 2 America’s......now.
If they’ll throw in the union Neanderthals too, I’m all for it.
I would love for them to up the ante and propose shutting down the Congressional Health Plan entirely and throw the whole lot onto the exchanges. After all, it's good enough for the rest of America...
The House GOP leaked this plan a day before the shutdown and long before that I recommended they do this many times here.
The Senate GOP willing to cave (or sit by and watch it happen) while they personally are shielded from the law is a crime.
The shutdown did not stop Obamacare
Better than that send an amendment that includes everyone period. No exceptions for anyone or anything. If I have to have this POS thrown at me I want every one to have it.
The difference is that they may actually be able to afford the premiums and deductibles being offered, unlike a good portion of the little people.
That should be MANDATORY
Wasn’t there a law passed a few years back that said Congress could no longer exempt itself from the laws they passed?
Finally some wisdom!!!
Remove all the exemptions from Obamacare and the whole thing will collapse.
This is a win/win move for the GOP because even the LIV's want Congress to have their most personal medical records leaked and scattered throughout the media and social media just like everyone else under 0bamacare.
“Republicans on Tuesday shifted fears and are seeking to extract a different health care concession”
Typo or a Freudian slip by the author? The only ones I have heard fear mongering are obamaramadingdong,demonrats and rinos.
And don't forget the Supreme Court, especially for that idiot John Roberts.
Does anybody really think they'll see Obama reading Highlights in a packed ObamaCare waiting room in downtown DC anytime soon.
Does anybody believe Harry Reid is going to be told that he's too old for a liver transplant?
Is Nancy Pelosi going to be denied a breast exam because she had one last year?
The political class will never ever be subject to the daily miseries they force upon us.
Good. They should never have been excluded in the first place as it is the LAW OF THE LAND.
Rush agreed and said....Send that idea to Boehner.
If they are forced into it, maybe they will finally READ the **** law.
These are pretty meaningless concessions as far as the general public is concerned. What health plans Congress has doesn’t make any difference in how Obamacare will affect our lives. A delay of the medical device tax is not good enough. A bad tax is a bad tax today or tomorrow.
I thought they were supposed to be asking for proper income verification before the moochers can get subsidies? That is something that is helpful to the entire country. The primary, overwhelming problem with Obamacare is that it hands out more free taxpayer cash to moochers. No compromise is worth squat unless it reduces or eliminates the mooch factor.
Reducing the tax burden of Obamacare while doing nothing to reduce its spending is the same crap the GOP has been doing for a decade. They cut taxes, the Dems increase spending, and we go deeper into debt. Cutting every tax associated with the law while not decreasing its spending will just add to the debt and force us to pay the bills down the road with interest added. Cutting taxes without decreasing might be fine if it’s part of a growth package, but Obamacare is not a growth package. It can only decrease economic growth since it encourages more moochers to not work.