Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

[IResist]

Yes. I saw this earlier. Vote them out and shame on them. Hopefully this won't go through.

 

[JakeStarkey]

Vote them out.

 

[hjmick]

"For thee, but not for me" - The Republicans


Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.

House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.

The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.

Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who authored this amendment, confirmed this was the case: Members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations.

Were you just as bothered when the White House, President Obama, granted a waiver in 2015 that exempted Congress only from the ACA?


...Further, according to Section 1512 of the law, legislators and staff “lose the employer contribution” that covers most of the cost of coverage. The amendment passed by Congress specifically requires that Members and their staff give up their generous Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan (FEHB) health benefits and, instead, purchase their health insurance through ObamaCare exchanges. In essence, Congress was required by law to be treated like any other citizen who lost the individual market insurance they liked.

Many who were critical of this law felt the reality of ObamaCare would prove so painful for Congress--as it is for many citizens--that the law would quickly be re-opened, heavily amended or even repealed with Democrat’s help. But that calculation must have also occurred at the White House. The Administration quickly came forward with an illegal sweetheart waiver for Congress alone.

Congressional leaders from both parties quietly and gratefully accepted the special deal from the administration’s Office of Personnel Management. It gives legislators and staff “Gold Level” ObamaCare coverage with a 75 percent subsidy paid by taxpayers or even the option of opting out and retaining their previous heavily subsidized plan. The income of members and staff is simply not counted.

This is in direct violation of the specific language of the law Congress enacted. The White House broke its own law to provide Congress ObamaCare gold and then fraudulently administered it through the District of Columbia’s Small Business Healthcare Exchange. In order to get their waiver, representatives of the House and Senate signed documents, under penalty of perjury, that each body employed no more than 50 people. To date more than 13,000 members and staff have signed up with the help of another gift--a dedicated team assigned only to Congress...


Just curious. Strikes me as pretty much the same thing without breaking the law you wrote...

 

[JakeStarkey]

wrong wrong wrong

 

[Synthaholic]

"For thee, but not for me" - The Republicans


Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.

House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.

The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.

Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who authored this amendment, confirmed this was the case: Members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations.

Were you just as bothered when the White House, President Obama, granted a waiver in 2015 that exempted Congress only from the ACA?


...Further, according to Section 1512 of the law, legislators and staff “lose the employer contribution” that covers most of the cost of coverage. The amendment passed by Congress specifically requires that Members and their staff give up their generous Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan (FEHB) health benefits and, instead, purchase their health insurance through ObamaCare exchanges. In essence, Congress was required by law to be treated like any other citizen who lost the individual market insurance they liked.

Many who were critical of this law felt the reality of ObamaCare would prove so painful for Congress--as it is for many citizens--that the law would quickly be re-opened, heavily amended or even repealed with Democrat’s help. But that calculation must have also occurred at the White House. The Administration quickly came forward with an illegal sweetheart waiver for Congress alone.

Congressional leaders from both parties quietly and gratefully accepted the special deal from the administration’s Office of Personnel Management. It gives legislators and staff “Gold Level” ObamaCare coverage with a 75 percent subsidy paid by taxpayers or even the option of opting out and retaining their previous heavily subsidized plan. The income of members and staff is simply not counted.

This is in direct violation of the specific language of the law Congress enacted. The White House broke its own law to provide Congress ObamaCare gold and then fraudulently administered it through the District of Columbia’s Small Business Healthcare Exchange. In order to get their waiver, representatives of the House and Senate signed documents, under penalty of perjury, that each body employed no more than 50 people. To date more than 13,000 members and staff have signed up with the help of another gift--a dedicated team assigned only to Congress...


Just curious. Strikes me as pretty much the same thing without breaking the law you wrote...

Does me being bothered by something from the past dictate whether you are bothered by what is about to happen?

Just curious.

 

[hjmick]

"For thee, but not for me" - The Republicans


Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.

House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.

The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.

Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who authored this amendment, confirmed this was the case: Members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations.

Were you just as bothered when the White House, President Obama, granted a waiver in 2015 that exempted Congress only from the ACA?


...Further, according to Section 1512 of the law, legislators and staff “lose the employer contribution” that covers most of the cost of coverage. The amendment passed by Congress specifically requires that Members and their staff give up their generous Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan (FEHB) health benefits and, instead, purchase their health insurance through ObamaCare exchanges. In essence, Congress was required by law to be treated like any other citizen who lost the individual market insurance they liked.

Many who were critical of this law felt the reality of ObamaCare would prove so painful for Congress--as it is for many citizens--that the law would quickly be re-opened, heavily amended or even repealed with Democrat’s help. But that calculation must have also occurred at the White House. The Administration quickly came forward with an illegal sweetheart waiver for Congress alone.

Congressional leaders from both parties quietly and gratefully accepted the special deal from the administration’s Office of Personnel Management. It gives legislators and staff “Gold Level” ObamaCare coverage with a 75 percent subsidy paid by taxpayers or even the option of opting out and retaining their previous heavily subsidized plan. The income of members and staff is simply not counted.

This is in direct violation of the specific language of the law Congress enacted. The White House broke its own law to provide Congress ObamaCare gold and then fraudulently administered it through the District of Columbia’s Small Business Healthcare Exchange. In order to get their waiver, representatives of the House and Senate signed documents, under penalty of perjury, that each body employed no more than 50 people. To date more than 13,000 members and staff have signed up with the help of another gift--a dedicated team assigned only to Congress...


Just curious. Strikes me as pretty much the same thing without breaking the law you wrote...

Does me being bothered by something from the past dictate whether you are bothered by what is about to happen?

Just curious.

None whatsoever, I'm just checking your bias... Selective outrage is the banner of partisan shills and hacks.

For what it's worth, I was bothered by it then and I'm bothered by it now. For the very same reason... If it's good enough for us, it's good enough for them.

That's what's called consistency...

 

[Indeependent]

Except they aren't exempt!

Yes they are and so are postal employees. They have better care then shit stain care. Why do you think the American auto workers turned it down? Because it was better?

Trumpists always lie in the face of the truth!
Thank you.

You might want to check what kind of insurance the united auto workers have. It's not shit stain care.

And how exactly does that rationalize your lie about Congress???

The Senate and house members can use the same insurer as postal employees. Remember when shit stain held up his healthcare card? They already had better then shit stain care.

Is Liberalism ignorance, stupidity or illiteracy?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.
House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on pre-existing conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.
Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) who authored this amendment confirmed this was the case: members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping this Obamacare regulations. Health law expert Tim Jost flagged me to this particular issue.
A bit of background is helpful here. Obamacare requires all members of Congress and their staff to purchase coverage on the individual market, just like Obamacare enrollees. The politics of that plank were simple enough, meant to demonstrate that if the coverage in this law were good enough for Americans than it should be good enough for their representations in Washington.

That’s been happening for the past four years now. Fast-forward to this new amendment, which would allow states to waive out of key Obamacare protections like the ban on pre-existing conditions or the requirement to cover things like maternity care and mental health services.
If Congressional aides lived in a state that decided to waive these protections, the aides who were sick could be vulnerable to higher premiums than the aides that are healthy. Their benefits package could get skimpier as Obamacare’s essential health benefits requirement may no longer apply either.
This apparently does not sound appealing because the Republican amendment includes the members of Congress and their staff as a protected group who cannot be affected by this amendment.
You can see it on the sixth page of the amendment, although it is admittedly hard to spot. The Obamacare section that requires legislators to buy on the individual market is section 1312(d)(3)(D). And if you look at the Republican amendment, and the list of who cannot be included in this waiver? It includes Section 1312(d)(3)(D).
Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

So, here we have it. The GOP keeps Obamacare for themselves and stick their constituents with their crappy healthcare legislation. Oh and the wealthy get there huge tax cuts.
Of course the Trumpster goose-steppers will love it, even if they get stiffed in the deal. I guarantee it.

Using far lft religious sites as your "facts" proves once in for all you are far left drone!

Be an adult learn to read and make your mind up and stop letting your rich white masters to tell you want to think!

Then again this far left drone did they make the claim they would give Trump the benefit of the doubt for two years, soo how long that lasted.

I wouldn't go near a religious set but read this on other sites.

It's stupid, indeed, it's a "drone" who attacks the source but can't prove the info is wrong.
Ever hear of Google?[emoji90]


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[Synthaholic]

"For thee, but not for me" - The Republicans


Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.

House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.

The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.

Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who authored this amendment, confirmed this was the case: Members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations.

Were you just as bothered when the White House, President Obama, granted a waiver in 2015 that exempted Congress only from the ACA?


...Further, according to Section 1512 of the law, legislators and staff “lose the employer contribution” that covers most of the cost of coverage. The amendment passed by Congress specifically requires that Members and their staff give up their generous Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan (FEHB) health benefits and, instead, purchase their health insurance through ObamaCare exchanges. In essence, Congress was required by law to be treated like any other citizen who lost the individual market insurance they liked.

Many who were critical of this law felt the reality of ObamaCare would prove so painful for Congress--as it is for many citizens--that the law would quickly be re-opened, heavily amended or even repealed with Democrat’s help. But that calculation must have also occurred at the White House. The Administration quickly came forward with an illegal sweetheart waiver for Congress alone.

Congressional leaders from both parties quietly and gratefully accepted the special deal from the administration’s Office of Personnel Management. It gives legislators and staff “Gold Level” ObamaCare coverage with a 75 percent subsidy paid by taxpayers or even the option of opting out and retaining their previous heavily subsidized plan. The income of members and staff is simply not counted.

This is in direct violation of the specific language of the law Congress enacted. The White House broke its own law to provide Congress ObamaCare gold and then fraudulently administered it through the District of Columbia’s Small Business Healthcare Exchange. In order to get their waiver, representatives of the House and Senate signed documents, under penalty of perjury, that each body employed no more than 50 people. To date more than 13,000 members and staff have signed up with the help of another gift--a dedicated team assigned only to Congress...


Just curious. Strikes me as pretty much the same thing without breaking the law you wrote...

Does me being bothered by something from the past dictate whether you are bothered by what is about to happen?

Just curious.

None whatsoever, I'm just checking your bias... Selective outrage is the banner of partisan shills and hacks.

For what it's worth, I was bothered by it then and I'm bothered by it now. For the very same reason... If it's good enough for us, it's good enough for them.

That's what's called consistency...

I'm sure you will call your congresscritters and voice your objection.

 

[Kosh]

Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.
House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on pre-existing conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.
Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) who authored this amendment confirmed this was the case: members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping this Obamacare regulations. Health law expert Tim Jost flagged me to this particular issue.
A bit of background is helpful here. Obamacare requires all members of Congress and their staff to purchase coverage on the individual market, just like Obamacare enrollees. The politics of that plank were simple enough, meant to demonstrate that if the coverage in this law were good enough for Americans than it should be good enough for their representations in Washington.

That’s been happening for the past four years now. Fast-forward to this new amendment, which would allow states to waive out of key Obamacare protections like the ban on pre-existing conditions or the requirement to cover things like maternity care and mental health services.
If Congressional aides lived in a state that decided to waive these protections, the aides who were sick could be vulnerable to higher premiums than the aides that are healthy. Their benefits package could get skimpier as Obamacare’s essential health benefits requirement may no longer apply either.
This apparently does not sound appealing because the Republican amendment includes the members of Congress and their staff as a protected group who cannot be affected by this amendment.
You can see it on the sixth page of the amendment, although it is admittedly hard to spot. The Obamacare section that requires legislators to buy on the individual market is section 1312(d)(3)(D). And if you look at the Republican amendment, and the list of who cannot be included in this waiver? It includes Section 1312(d)(3)(D).
Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

So, here we have it. The GOP keeps Obamacare for themselves and stick their constituents with their crappy healthcare legislation. Oh and the wealthy get there huge tax cuts.
Of course the Trumpster goose-steppers will love it, even if they get stiffed in the deal. I guarantee it.

Using far lft religious sites as your "facts" proves once in for all you are far left drone!

Be an adult learn to read and make your mind up and stop letting your rich white masters to tell you want to think!

Then again this far left drone did they make the claim they would give Trump the benefit of the doubt for two years, soo how long that lasted.

I wouldn't go near a religious set but read this on other sites.

It's stupid, indeed, it's a "drone" who attacks the source but can't prove the info is wrong.
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Another irony impaired far left drone chimes in to spew far left religious dogma as it were "fact"..

The far left is religious cult that you support without question or hesitation.

You are a far left drone as you drone on and on using far left religious dogma.

Show where you have condemned any far left policies..


Silly far left drone!

 

[JakeStarkey]

Kosh, if you believe that, then you believe wrongly.

We have cults on the far left, on the far right, in the globalists, and among the nationalists.

We need to stop the yelling nonsense and start trying to find where we can work together.

 

[hjmick]

"For thee, but not for me" - The Republicans


Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.

House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.

The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.

Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who authored this amendment, confirmed this was the case: Members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations.

Were you just as bothered when the White House, President Obama, granted a waiver in 2015 that exempted Congress only from the ACA?


...Further, according to Section 1512 of the law, legislators and staff “lose the employer contribution” that covers most of the cost of coverage. The amendment passed by Congress specifically requires that Members and their staff give up their generous Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan (FEHB) health benefits and, instead, purchase their health insurance through ObamaCare exchanges. In essence, Congress was required by law to be treated like any other citizen who lost the individual market insurance they liked.

Many who were critical of this law felt the reality of ObamaCare would prove so painful for Congress--as it is for many citizens--that the law would quickly be re-opened, heavily amended or even repealed with Democrat’s help. But that calculation must have also occurred at the White House. The Administration quickly came forward with an illegal sweetheart waiver for Congress alone.

Congressional leaders from both parties quietly and gratefully accepted the special deal from the administration’s Office of Personnel Management. It gives legislators and staff “Gold Level” ObamaCare coverage with a 75 percent subsidy paid by taxpayers or even the option of opting out and retaining their previous heavily subsidized plan. The income of members and staff is simply not counted.

This is in direct violation of the specific language of the law Congress enacted. The White House broke its own law to provide Congress ObamaCare gold and then fraudulently administered it through the District of Columbia’s Small Business Healthcare Exchange. In order to get their waiver, representatives of the House and Senate signed documents, under penalty of perjury, that each body employed no more than 50 people. To date more than 13,000 members and staff have signed up with the help of another gift--a dedicated team assigned only to Congress...


Just curious. Strikes me as pretty much the same thing without breaking the law you wrote...

Does me being bothered by something from the past dictate whether you are bothered by what is about to happen?

Just curious.

None whatsoever, I'm just checking your bias... Selective outrage is the banner of partisan shills and hacks.

For what it's worth, I was bothered by it then and I'm bothered by it now. For the very same reason... If it's good enough for us, it's good enough for them.

That's what's called consistency...

I'm sure you will call your congresscritters and voice your objection.

As a matter of fact, I did. For all the good it will do us, both Scott and Sanford heard from me.


What have you done lately?

 

[rightwinger]

Ah stupid the house nor the Senate use shit stain care. There were exempt from day one. They already had better care then shit stain care.

Teachers are also exempt from it along with dozens of others like the auto workers Union.

Ummm....read the Grassley amendment that made Congress and their staff give up their federal healthcare policies and sign up for healthcare exchanges

Teachers and auto workers are insured by their employers