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.
Really? I had understood all exchange subsidies to be phased out at something like 4x the poverty level, which of course the congress critters would exceed.