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President Trump can change this rule

A rule promulgated by the Office of Personnel Management during the Obama administration that allows members of Congress and their staff to obtain subsidized insurance alongside other Washington, D.C., small businesses.

That rule has been the subject of significant contention for years, with some lawmakers contending that it is an end-run around a provision in the 2010 health law that requires members of Congress to get their health coverage like other Americans. Lawmakers and their aides get a hefty subsidy from their employer—Congress—when they buy coverage through the D.C. online insurance exchange, which critics contend is unique to them. Defenders of the rule argue that the provision was never intended to force members of Congress or their aides to lose the employer-sponsored health benefits that many people get on the job.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/donald-trump-threatens-to-cancel-some-health-care-benefits-for-lawmakers-1501352607?mod=cx_politics&cx_navSource=cx_politics&cx_tag=poptarget&cx_artPos=8#cxrecs_s
akindheart · 61-69, F
i read in the paper this sunday that congress is on the gold plan of obamacare. wonder if that is wrong? if not, they should be.
katielass · F
@akindheart omg that is too funny. And we thought it was funny when counties have more votes than there are people living in the county. Not voting aged people, all people.
akindheart · 61-69, F
@katielass now our fraud unit has imposed that all absentee ballots moving forward must have drivers license...yet they stay in office now.
katielass · F
@akindheart Oh you know the left will object to any measure to make sure our elections are honest and valid. Unless they lose a big race and want to delegitimize the winner by claiming someone meddled. But I guess when you're the party with the long history of voting fraud, you tend to take that stance.
The senate and congress should get the same health care as the rest of the country
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