The following was taken from Breibart.com. It just makes me upset that Congress thinks they are the better class then us lowly citizens.
Washington has been abuzz for months over the fear and loathing that
Congressional staffers have for Obamacare. Many staffers and employees
on Capitol Hill have been saying they’ll have to quit Washington if they
are forced into Obamacare. Now the President is promising to fix it all
for them.
At the very beginning of his closed-door meeting with Senate
Democrats, the President addressed staffers’ worries that Obamacare will
force them to quit working in Washington, promising “I’m on it.”
Currently congressional staffers have 75 percent of their healthcare
insurance paid by taxpayers, but if their Cadillac Congressional
healthcare plan is ended and staffers are pushed into Obamacare, many
Congressional employees fear that their insurance costs will increase by
thousands of dollars a year. This cost, many say, will force them to
quit working in Washington.
The Republican-sponsored amendment to Obamacare introduced by Senator
Chuck Grassley (R-IA) would require that lawmakers and their staffers
must be covered by the same insurance exchanges that the rest of America
will be forced into as mandated by Obama’s healthcare law. It is this
amendment that staffers are protesting.
Some Republicans have joined Democrats in efforts to exempt staffers
from Obamacare, but not all. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina
recently said that Congress should have to live with the same law that
everyone else does.
"I have no problems with Congress being under the same guidelines," Burr said.
"I think if this is going to be a disaster--which I think it’s going to
be--we ought to enjoy it together with our constituents."
A spokesperson for the House Ways and Means Committee chaired by Republican Dave Camp of Michigan echoed Sen. Burr's sentiment.
"If the ObamaCare exchanges are good enough for the hardworking
Americans and small businesses the law claims to help," the spokesperson
said, "then they should be good enough for the president, vice
president, Congress and federal employees."
See the full article at http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/08/01/Obama-Promises-to-Look-Into-Giving-Congressional-Staffers-a-Break-on-Obamacare
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