But since McLame's wifey is worth a fortune, he would still get GREAT treatment, paying for it out of his own pocket.
I think you missed something important there.
Imagine the hue and cry if all the Congressional Staffers to the last man and woman had to go on Obamacare while it melts down to single payer.
I would pay to see that!
And I'd pay good money to see that too! :-)
It was actually part of a post I made a bit earlier, to this very thread.
I just found this on CNN's site with a Google search:
ASSERTION: President Obama exempted members of Congress from Obamacare.So, here we have a reminder that Obamacare mandated members of Congress and their staffers would have to buy health insurance on the health insurance exchanges. Thank you Sen. Charles Grassley for your foresight. President Trump needs to remove the waivers! Then, he needs to invite Chief Justice Roberts to spend some vacation time at a Dude Ranch in the Great American Southwest.“President Obama recently issued a special rule for Congress and congressional staff to get a special subsidy to purchase health insurance on the Obamacare Exchange unavailable to every other American at similar income levels,” said Republican Sen. David Vitter. “That’s an exemption, plain and simple.”
FACTS: When Obamacare was passed into law, Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican, attached language to the bill that mandated members of Congress and their staffers would have to buy health insurance on the newly created health insurance exchanges. What nobody accounted for at the time was that members of Congress and their staffers currently have health insurance through their employer – the federal government. No other employer has been legally required to drop its employee’s health care plan and have them buy coverage on the exchanges.
Like most other large employers, the federal government contributes a portion to the premiums of its employees. In fact, like many employers, the federal government pays most of the premiums for its workers; an average of 72 percent on Capitol Hill. The law didn’t account for the continued employer contribution for these federal workers who would now be buying their insurance on the exchanges. The exchanges were designed to help people without health insurance and people with overly expensive health insurance. It became clear that without their employer contribution, members and their staffers would essentially be getting a cut in pay and benefits equal to thousands of dollars. Even Grassley, the provision’s author, had said the government should continue to contribute to lawmakers’ and staffers’ premiums. What the Obama administration has done is ruled that the congressional workers will continue to receive the employer contribution to help them buy their insurance on the exchange.
VERDICT: False. Congress is no more exempt than any other employer who drops coverage and then helps employees purchase insurance on the exchanges.
Congressional staffers are on Obamacare....but! Congress was declared a small business so that we could still pay for their gold Obamacare premiums.