Congressional leaders and aides confirmed Thursday that they have been privately discussing ways to mitigate an Obamacare implementation problem that directly affects lawmakers and, in particular, their staffs.What seemed on its face to be an attempt by Congress to seek special treatment under the law is actually an effort to resolve an ambiguity in the statute — one with deeply political origins — that could significantly cut lawmaker and staffer health benefits next year.
Though originally characterized in the press as a surreptitious and hypocritical effort by members of Congress to wiggle out of a provision of the law requiring them to buy insurance on Obamacare exchanges, it is more accurately a story about how the sorts of snafus that have hobbled Obamacare’s implementation are now coming home to roost on Capitol Hill.
when it came to our health care from the right wing it was flat out no, it will kill America, America is not a cat they killed it already what we are looking for is devine intervention, not republican anti solutions.
but now since it's hitting home they have to deliberate on what deal they can get for themselves and their help?
Starting in 2014, thanks to an amendment Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) successfully inserted into the Affordable Care Act to put Democrats in a political bind, members of Congress and personal staff — not committee staff — will be dropped from their federal health plan and have to buy insurance on state exchanges, which will launch next year.But they’re now realizing that executing Grassley’s measure is easier in theory than it is in practice. The problem is that the statute is not explicit about if and how much Congress is allowed to spend to help lawmakers and aides buy insurance, Jost said.
they tried to put Progressives in the trick box but it like a boomerang came back on them, oh what a tangled wb they weave while the try to deceive. you would think they would have given up on the skulduggery it to always bites them twice as hard, because it shows them to be unscrupulous as well as in their own jackpot.