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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Ptarmigan on June 13, 2013, 09:08:38 AM
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Obamacare? We were just leaving …
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/obamacare-lawmakers-health-insurance-92691.html?hp=f2
Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.
The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.
Democratic and Republican leaders are taking the issue seriously, but first they need more specifics from the Office of Personnel Management on how the new rule should take effect — a decision that Capitol Hill sources expect by fall, at the latest. The administration has clammed up in advance of a ruling, sources on both sides of the aisle said.
If they voted for it, they should
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Hey, they had to pass it to see how ****ed we get by it. :mad:
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I read that. HUGE firestorm of comments. I don't know why they don't just stop being stubborn and admit it's not workable. My congresscreep won't even write me back. Who knows, maybe he's thinking of quitting, too.