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That article is BS
While everyone else in the United States from the top corporate executives to the grocery store checkout clerk will be forced to buy their insurance through heavily regulated state-run exchanges,
No one is forced to buy insurance through the state run exchanges.
Look at the PolitiFact meter it says mostly true.
Look at the PolitiFact meter it says mostly true.
The article is about committee staff. At no point is there every any doubt--on anyone's part, anywhere--that members of Congress themselves lose their FEHBP privileges. See the law itself, see the relevant part of your Politifact article (which I've helpfully quoted for you).
Let me try and make this very clear for you: members of Congress will no longer be eligible for the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan, they will be buying insurance through state exchanges. Get it?
After it was signed into law they found out they would lose their government helthcare. They stripped that part out of the law.
After it was signed into law they found out they would lose their government helthcare. They stripped that part out of the law.
Whatever you say, chief.
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Email Comments 796 Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) took aim at GOP leadership Tuesday, asking if incoming House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) would ask Republicans seeking to repeal health care reform to abstain from making use of their congressional health insurance plans.
Politico reports:
"It was a central value to us when we passed health care, and a central value to the American people, that members of Congress should get the same health care as eveyrone else," Schumer told POLITICO this morning. "It seems unfair that house Republicans want to deprive middle-class Americans of the same health care as members of Congress but to keep it for themselves."
"Will Eric Cantor urge every Republican who is going to be for repeal to not take government health care themselves and to drop their existing health care?" he asked.
Interesting premise...
What is good for the goose..
Well, considering Chucky and his fellow band of trolls explicitly exempted themselves from Obamacare, I'd say he's on shaky ground. He should STFU.
This is just Schumer deflecting....
Remember this?
NYT: ObamaCare may have accidentally stripped Congress of health coverage
NYT: ObamaCare may have accidentally stripped Congress of health coverage Hot Air
Pretty good read.
WOW. I though Obamacare was the greatest.
Kinda funny how its so great they all exempted themselves from it.
One would think that those passing it would be the first in line to take advantage of how great it is.
Apparantly not.
theDoctorisIn said:Well, considering Chucky and his fellow band of trolls explicitly exempted themselves from Obamacare, I'd say he's on shaky ground. He should STFU.
This is just Schumer deflecting....
This is a lie.
Remember this?
NYT: ObamaCare may have accidentally stripped Congress of health coverage
NYT: ObamaCare may have accidentally stripped Congress of health coverage Hot Air
Do you read anything beyond the headlines? That article is entirely about one piece of that quote from the law I shared above: "...after the effective date of this subtitle...". It has nothing to do with whether or not they will lose their FEHBP privileges. Again, no one, anywhere, disputes that. Not even in hotair articles. Move on.
theDoctorisIn said:Well, considering Chucky and his fellow band of trolls explicitly exempted themselves from Obamacare, I'd say he's on shaky ground. He should STFU.
This is just Schumer deflecting....
This is a lie.
Quite a few folks have lost the ability to distinguish fact from fiction.
Look at the PolitiFact meter it says mostly true.
The article is about committee staff. At no point is there every any doubt--on anyone's part, anywhere--that members of Congress themselves lose their FEHBP privileges. See the law itself, see the relevant part of your Politifact article (which I've helpfully quoted for you).
Let me try and make this very clear for you: members of Congress will no longer be eligible for the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan, they will be buying insurance through state exchanges. Get it?
After it was signed into law they found out they would lose their government helthcare. They stripped that part out of the law.
The article is about committee staff. At no point is there every any doubt--on anyone's part, anywhere--that members of Congress themselves lose their FEHBP privileges. See the law itself, see the relevant part of your Politifact article (which I've helpfully quoted for you).
Let me try and make this very clear for you: members of Congress will no longer be eligible for the Federal Employee Health Benefits Plan, they will be buying insurance through state exchanges. Get it?
After it was signed into law they found out they would lose their government helthcare. They stripped that part out of the law.
Link?
(Greenbeard: That's the only game they know)
Yawn... another huffy puffy link by the troll...
You're predictable, we'll give you that much... troll
was the link lying about what senator schumer said?
if not, then the contents of his comments is the issue. yes?
Call me when Schumer and Pelosi are enrolled in Medicaid, then we'll talk.
Indeed.
schumer doesn't use the federal health insurance he's entitled to.