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(Democratic) Older hill aides shocked by Obamacare prices [Waah alert!]
Politico ^ | 11/21/2013 | Jonathan Allen and Jennifer Haberkorn

Posted on 11/21/2013 6:01:22 PM PST by markomalley

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To: markomalley

wow


21 posted on 11/21/2013 6:26:22 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: markomalley

“snafu” my rear end


22 posted on 11/21/2013 6:27:32 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: markomalley

23 posted on 11/21/2013 6:31:06 PM PST by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: markomalley
Suckers!

If you voted for it you deserve it!

Eat Your Peas!

24 posted on 11/21/2013 6:35:17 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: markomalley

Title should have read “BWahahahahahah alert”


25 posted on 11/21/2013 6:37:06 PM PST by Personal Responsibility (Government: Slimy used car salesmen writing laws forcing you to buy their cars)
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To: markomalley

Love it!


26 posted on 11/21/2013 6:39:09 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: markomalley

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


27 posted on 11/21/2013 6:41:08 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: markomalley

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.


28 posted on 11/21/2013 6:43:32 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

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.


29 posted on 11/21/2013 6:48:19 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear
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.

30 posted on 11/21/2013 6:56:22 PM PST by PistolPaknMama
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To: PistolPaknMama

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


31 posted on 11/21/2013 6:57:13 PM PST by nascarnation (Wish everyone see a "Gay Kwanzaa")
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To: markomalley

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

‘Sure, kid.’
“Ow, My Balls!”


32 posted on 11/21/2013 6:58:02 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: MUDDOG
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.

33 posted on 11/21/2013 7:17:06 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: markomalley

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Gwennie is my Congresswoman. This is really delicious.


34 posted on 11/21/2013 7:25:03 PM PST by TommyC1 (Fair tax, income tax, stupid ideas)
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To: USNBandit

Perhaps they doth complain too much.


35 posted on 11/21/2013 7:32:20 PM PST by MUDDOG
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To: Ditto

How about never?


36 posted on 11/21/2013 7:32:48 PM PST by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: markomalley

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


37 posted on 11/21/2013 7:40:22 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: markomalley
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.
38 posted on 11/21/2013 7:40:59 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry

we should never have been subsidizing their insurance to start with


39 posted on 11/21/2013 7:42:09 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: markomalley

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.


40 posted on 11/21/2013 8:18:39 PM PST by montanajoe
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