For as long as the political fight took over the past year, the abbreviated review process on the health care legislation currently pending on President Obama’s desk is unquestionably going to result in some surprises — as happens with any piece of mashed-up legislation — both for the congressmen who voted for it and for the American people.Perhaps that's one of many features the GOP should seek to repeal.
One such surprise is found on page 158 of the legislation, which appears to create a carveout for senior staff members in the leadership offices and on congressional committees, essentially exempting those senior Democrat staffers who wrote the bill from being forced to purchase health care plans in the same way as other Americans.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Guess Who Won't Have to Comply With Obamacare?
The senior staff that wrote the bill:
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Absolutely infuriating. There really needs to be a law that those who write or make the laws need to live by them.
Best wishes,
Laura
How can they opt out of ObamaCare when in 8 years there won't be any insurance companies? I thought the whole idea here was to create the monolithic single-payer system.
When health care is destroyed in this country, it will be destroyed for everyone. Enjoy your Ice Nine!
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