Posted on 07/28/2017 7:24:11 AM PDT by thouworm
If President Trump wants to fulfill his repeated promise to end ObamaCare, his best course of action is a radical change in tactics that would hit members of Congress where it hurts – in their wallets....
With a mere stroke of his pen, President Trump could end the exemption that President Obama gave members of Congress and their staffs that makes them the only participants in the ObamaCare exchanges to receive generous subsidies from their employer (the American people) to pay for their health insurance. Nothing would better focus Congress’ attention on changing ObamaCare than being trapped in it just like other Americans....
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Do it!
He should have done it the first day in office.
Also, make sure Obamacare applies to every Federal employee
End all exemptions for EVERYBODY!!!
BRILLIANT!!!
Staffers....the real sleaze of the DC gang
The SEIU would be a good start.
When I was young, one of the things drummed into me about the superiority of America vis-a-vis the USSR was that we had a responsive government, and that everyone was subject to the same laws. In contrast, in the USSR the apparatchiks and the nomenklatura got special treatment in all things, including living arrangements and medical care. Special stores, special hospitals—all for the governing class.
Are we here so different now?
Why in the hell didn’t trump do this the first week after being sworn in?!?!?
How foolish to think this would ever happen.
It’ll never happen. The Dems...and I’m sure more than a few ‘Pubs...will have such an Executive Order tied up in the courts for eternity. The 9th Circuit will be their first stop after they do some judge shopping.
Send it to the Supremes.
“Equal protection under the law.”
I can’t wait to hear McCain, Graham, Collins, Murkowski and their cronies bitch about having their special status removed. Even that bloviating bastard McCain would have a hard time doing that...
Interesting, but I thought that was written into the Obamacare law that was passed by Congress. He can’t just undo that with a stroke of a pen, can he?
If so, brilliant—though he probably should have done it back in January.
It was mandated that Congress and their staffers buy their coverage through the Washington DC exchange. So they are on Obamacare. But....the Democrats declared Congress a small business so that the taxpayers could continue to pay on average 72% of their premiums. The Washington DC exchange also has a bunch of gold plans for them to choose from. I think it’s the only exchange that does.
So Congress was not exempted per se......but special stuff was created for them to make the exchange tolerable for them.
^^^^^THIS^^^^^^
Will Trump End The Obamacare Congressional Exemption? [July 25, 2017]
"American Commitment is spearheading a coalition of over national 30 organizations urging the president to end the exemption."
President Trump could effectively end ObamaCare tomorrow by announcing that any insurance company that develops a plan that meets the regulatory requirements of any state insurance commission will be given a waiver immediately even if it doesn't meet any of the ObamaCare mandates related to minimum essential coverage, lifetime limits of coverage, pre-existing conditions, etc.
Now that Congress has failed, there are any number of options that Trump can exercise on behalf of the American People.
“Because we just have to”...end the terrible Obamacare nightmare. His new Communications Director will have a heyday taking this message forward.
A cynic might even say that this (Congressional failure to repeal) is the outcome Trump has been hoping for. But that would invite comparisons to “3 D Chess” and cause stress to some FReepers who believe everything they read in the WaPo or NYT.
NOW NOW NOW Now!!!!!
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