Is Congress exempted from Obamacare? | Fact Checker
these is no such exemption or special subsidy
the congress critters enjoy the same health plan benefits that i, as a federal retiree, continue to enjoy
as the cited article explains:
hannity owes the congressman's charity $10,000
the chump will welch
You know he was right correct? And that Hannity was wrong? You know that right?
The above posts are correct.
Some may not find it fair that federal employees are offered this insurance deal, but it was not a special provision of PPACA.
Yes, I saw hannity making stuff up and trolling his guest. Hannity flat out lies, and if people are believing him and there is no fixing that sort of stupidity. Faux news is not factual and is quite often caught lying. What needs to be done is to put out real information and the truth, and to get out of fauxland.
Hang on, not so fast there, my
left wingish pardners, sounds like y'all done lassoed a rather large cow patty, certainly not the real cow.
All of you are
WRONG, flat out...at best far off course.
First off, even the Congressman in the video agreed that they got the subsidies and said they could give them up if they wanted, yes-no?
YES.
Secondly, Congress did indeed get the subsidies just as described by Hannity and that the Congressman wimped out wagering on.
72% subsidy.
Here is what went down, per Reuters:
UPDATE 1-U.S. Congress wins relief on Obamacare health plan subsidies | Reuters
“The decision by the Office of Personnel Management, with Obama's blessing, will prevent the largely unintended loss of healthcare benefits for 535 members of the Senate and House of Representatives and thousands of Capitol Hill staff.
When Congress passed the health reform law known as Obamacare in 2010, an amendment required that lawmakers and their staff members purchase health insurance through the online exchanges that the law created. They would lose generous coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program.
The amendment's author, Republican Senator Charles Grassley, argued that if Obamacare plans were good enough for the American public, they were good enough for Congress. Democrats, eager to pass the reforms, went along with it.
But it soon became apparent the provision contained no language that allowed federal contributions toward their health plans that cover about 75 percent of the premium costs.
This caused fears that staff would suddenly face sharply higher healthcare costs and leave federal service, causing a "brain drain" on Capitol Hill.
But Wednesday's proposed rule from the OPM, the federal government's human resources agency, means that Congress will escape the most onerous impact of law as it was written.
The OPM said the federal contributions will be allowed to continue for exchange-purchased plans for lawmakers and their staffs, ensuring that those working on Capitol Hill will effectively get the same health contributions as millions of other federal workers who keep their current plan.”
So, to make it simple for y’all... since you do not seem to be able to figure it out for yourselves, Sen.Grassley [R] inserted an amendment, and Democrats wanting to hurry up and pass
this stinker of a plan, agreed and added the language to the bill
in which Congress and staff were not exempt from Obamacare, but it was written so hastily that they forgot to add back in the huge subsidies that these folks get in their old health care plan… so then Obama and Dems in Congress, with the blessing of the OPM, did an end around and gave themselves back these subsidies that we little people do not get out here.
That simple.
The justbubba article got it right kinda in a round about way, but the main thrust of the article countering that there was no exemption from Obamacare. That was not being argued by Hannity and Pascrell as, with the Grassely [Republican] amendment, Congress and staff were, indeed, made subject to Obamacare.
The Office of Personnel Management ruled the subsidies will be allowed.
Wiseone, sorry, your fact checking was just way way way off base, just tangentially hitting the exemption from Obamacare note, not on the same song at all though having really nothing to do with the 72% subsidies that the Democratic congressman specifically tried to wriggle off the hook about. For one thing your article was published in, as far as one can tell, early 2013 with the sources listed being, at the latest, Jan 2013. This decision by OPM was on August 7, 2013… so, sorry, not even close to being applicable.
Sorry folks, per usual,
aaaaaall of you are wrong again.