I’ve been meaning to write about this for awhile – and since it’s back in the news, I’ll take my shot.
You’ve probably heard that Congress and Congressional staffs – as part of the ObamaCare law – were required to get their health insurance on the newly forming ObamaCare exchanges and give up some of their generous government subsidies.
More specifically:
The ObamaCare Act applied to Congress the same civil-rights employment and labor laws that lawmakers had required everyday citizens to abide by.
With some lapses, it’s worked well to defuse public outrage about “one law for thee, one law for me” congressional behavior.
In 2009, Senator Chuck Grassley decided that the principle deserved to be embedded in Obamacare, and he was able to insert a provision requiring all members of Congress and their staffs to get insurance through the Obamacare health exchanges.
“The more that Congress experiences the laws it passes, the better,” said Grassley.
Most employment lawyers interpreted that to mean that the taxpayer-funded federal health-insurance subsidies dispensed to those on Congress’s payroll — which now range from $5,000 to $11,000 a year — would have to end.
Makes sense to me – make them eat their own cooking.
But, there’s much more to this story …
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