(Democratic) Older hill aides shocked by Obamacare prices [Waah alert!]

Politico ^ | 11/21/2013 | Jonathan Allen and Jennifer Haberkorn

[GeronL]

wow

[GeronL]

“snafu” my rear end

[LostInBayport]

[TigersEye]

Suckers!

If you voted for it you deserve it!

Eat Your Peas!

[Personal Responsibility]

Title should have read “BWahahahahahah alert”

[Inyo-Mono]

Love it!

[2ndDivisionVet]

The people who wrote the PP&ACA don’t know what is in it? Does that sound credulous to you?

[Venturer]

Welcome to the real world Obama lovers.

LMAO, this may be so bad that Democrat Congressional staffer will be voting against Democrats.

And they get subsidies.

[Venturer]

The people that wrote it really do not know what is in it.

Sebelius and Obama keep changing it and adding regulations.

This isn’t a law it’s an open way to destroy the Middle class and take away any money Americans might have to spend at small business’s. Thereby killing small business.

[PistolPaknMama]

They can arbitrarily decide what staff is 'official' and what staff is 'unofficial' and somehow this has an impact on what they pay for health insurance?

I would like to get my re-designation now. We get one too, right? What? I can't hear you over the crickets.

[nascarnation]

Sorry, dear, waivers are for Democrats....

[tumblindice]

A good, hard kick in the ‘nads? The aparatchniks? I missed it.
Can I see it again?

‘Sure, kid.’
“Ow, My Balls!”

[USNBandit]

many congressional staffers — designated as “official” aides — were forced to move out of the old heavily subsidized Federal Employees Health Benefits program and into the District of Columbia’s health insurance marketplace exchange.

By heavily subsidized they mean 70% of the premium is covered by the government for a choice of policies that mostly break down to an 80% /20% insurance/benificiary benefit. When the employees are move to the exchanges the government pays up to 75% for what ends up being the same cost breakdown with higher deductibles.

I wonder how many chiefs of staff are career federal employees. One would think if they aren't they could easily move to K street if the health coverage is so bad. They could also punch their boss in the face for not designating them as an employee that gets to keep their FEHB.

[TommyC1]

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Gwennie is my Congresswoman. This is really delicious.

[MUDDOG]

Perhaps they doth complain too much.

[Girlene]

How about never?

[catnipman]

Who wooda thunk it? Congressional aids finding out that they’re really just peasants like the rest of us.

[RegulatorCountry]

Why all this concern over a minuscule subset of the population? It's not as if the entire taxpaying populace of the country isn't facing the same or fearing it. They foisted this monstrosity and they should be subject to it too, not able to wheedle and whinge their way out of it.

[GeronL]

we should never have been subsidizing their insurance to start with

[montanajoe]

I can and I do get my care from the VA, when I have a good year I use BC/BS and insure myself wife and kids. We paid $700 month in 2011 and it went up about 25% a year.

I’m amused but not surprised by the fact that everybody whether they are on the left or right are so surprised by how much health insurance costs.

Something that is overlooked here is that most Americans don’t know or care what the actual costs are.

This is a huge problem for any fiscal conservative. We can say cut spending but with the American medicare/welfare state existing as it does simple math says healthcare spending for baby boomers in the next 40 years will bankrupt the USA.