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LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) -- The White House has approved a deal that
will exempt members of Congress and their staff from some of the
provisions of the Affordable Care Act, Politico reported late Thursday.
Under the law, popularly referred to as Obamacare, lawmakers and their
aides were required to source health insurance "created" by the law or
offered through one of its exchanges, and without the subsidies they
currently enjoy, the members of Congress would have faced thousands of
dollars in additional premium payments each year, the report said.
However, the Office of Personnel Management now plans to rule that the
government can continue to make a contribution to the health-care
premiums of the lawmakers and their staff, it said, citing unnamed
congressional sources and a White House official.
This really needs no further commentary, but honestly, doesn't it get you just a bit ticked off that these buffoons can foist this legislative trash heap on us and then proceed to exempt themselves? Back in the late 80's when P.J. O'Rourke wrote his classic Parliament of Whores (which by the way is a must read if you have not read it) he sure had it right.
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