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Posted On: 04/26/2017 1:46:41 PM
Pic Of The Moment: Profiles In Courage
Dumb enough to vote for the GOP agenda? Dumb enough to suffer the consequences. Unless of course you're authoring the changes.
https://www.vox.com/2017/4/25/15429982/gop-ex...-amendment
Dumb enough to vote for the GOP agenda? Dumb enough to suffer the consequences. Unless of course you're authoring the changes.
https://www.vox.com/2017/4/25/15429982/gop-ex...-amendment
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Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal
Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.
Updated by Sarah Kliffsarah@vox.com Apr 25, 2017, 10:39pm EDT
House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.
Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who authored this amendment, confirmed this was the case: Members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations. Health law expert Tim Jost flagged this particular issue to me.
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