That’s hardly worth all of the taxes, mandates, subsidies, abortions, and the destruction of our health care system that implementing the rest of Obamacare will produce. The fight should be based on a year delay of the full law at the very least. Congress gettin’ a pay raise or whatever other break is an old canard that Joe Q. Public likes to talk about, but it’s an extremely minor issue compared to everything that’s being done to the public. This sounds more like Boner wanted to score am easy “win” that amounts to gaining virtually nothing instead of engaging in a tough fight.
All you say is true. But if the Senate has to vote on canceling their (and their staffers’) ObamaCare waiver, it will at least have some entertainment value.
One of my neighbors is a Hill staffer, and she is *panicking* about what to do — if she retires before December 31, she gets to keep her current health-care plan, but that means early retirement, which has its own costs. If she does not retire early, she’ll be thrown into the public exchanges, right now, presumably, getting the 72% taxpayer subsidy, but with all the haggling going on, maybe not....
What is she to do? And all I can say — with a tremendous amount of Schadenfreude — is, I thought you told us ObamaCare would be awesome? WTF is your problem?
Asking this question is literally one of the very few joys I’ve experienced since 2008.