Awesome: Congress Accidentally Gutted Their Own Health Insurance

This is rich, and it shows what happens when 2,000+ page monstrosities are rammed through congress without anyone reading the bill. It seems that due to a drafting error, Congress may have accidentally excluded themselves from the Federal Employees Health Program. The idea was that members of Congress would purchase plans through the new insurance exchange, but that part of the plan doesn’t go into effect until 2014. The part of the bill that excludes members of Congress from the Federal Employees plan, however, does not have an effective date, and therefore went into effect immediately when the bill became law.

No, they didn’t “gut” their own healthcare!

They EXCLUDED themselves from the public option.

They HAVE coverage!
What this is saying is that they are EXCLUDED from the hellcare plan. They are COVERED under a DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT PLAN that is a Cadillac plan. Even OBAMA is excluded from the sheeple hellcare. Do you really think they would FORGET about THEIR best interests? LOL!!!

We are stuck with it - the sheeple but our representatives are EXCEMPTED from it and will continue with their current healthcare plan. There is NO CONFUSION about this.

Because this story originates from the New York Times, the article also says, "And even if current members of Congress can stay in the popular program for federal employees, that option will probably not be available to newly elected lawmakers, the report says."

Therefore, I would like to see a LINK to a confirmation within text of Obamacare itself that proves this suggestion may be true.

There's a non-severability clause in the Obamakkkare law (I understand from other posts on related threads). At the same time there's the 27th Amendment.

It clearly provides that NO LAW which changes congressional compensation can go into effect until after the next House election.

I take this to mean that Obamakkkare cannot go into effect in whole or in part until after the next election since it does impact congressional benefits.

Irrelevant. The idea that MOC's get better or quicker treatment because the have some superior type of insurance is ridiculous. They get better, quicker care because they have Rep. or Sen. in front of their names ... no matter what kind of system we end up having, be it falling into full socialized medicine or somehow managing to retract ourselves from the slide, every Member of Congress, Executive branch upper-level, the Supremes, will always have Bethesda as more or less their private hospital and will never be denied any kind of care necessary, for themselves or their families, the best specialists will move them to the front of any line, there will always be bed space and/or an operating room ready for them.

This is why they pulled a huge PR blunder when the overhaul of our health care system was first being discussed, for had they all, each and every one make public statement/pledge to enroll in whatever they required of the citizenry, instead of allowing themselves the exemption, they would have saved many months of grief and cost those in opposition a huge argument, because, as I say, there is no chance whatever that any MOC will ever be subject to rationing or denial. Stoopid. Or Stupak, rather.

Not reading the bill screws bill writers. How sweet.

If they didn’t know what the bill said about their on health care, then how in hell did you think they knew what was in store in the entire bill.

Abort the whole bill.

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