For anyone who thinks our elected officials and government bureaucrats are our equal, consider this. Obamacare was passed requiring all citizens to comply or face punitive damages. Except, now those who wrote the law, you know - the Washington elite, want out for themselves while the rest of us will suffer the horrendous consequences the law will bring. The law requires lawmakers and their staffs to participate in Obamacare. You see, the elite now understand the folly that is Obamacare and want no part of it. So, rather than undo the law, they want to opt out. See this quote from the first link: "Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting. The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive." http://www.politico.com/story/2013/06/obamacare-lawmakers-health-insurance-92691.html And get this quote from the same article: "Rep. John Larson, a Connecticut Democrat in leadership when the law passed, said he thinks the problem will be resolved. 'If not, I think we should begin an immediate amicus brief to say, ‘Listen this is simply not fair to these employees...They are federal employees.'” Another telling quote: "No argument for Obamacare’s repeal can top the simple fact that Members of Congress do not want it to apply to them." http://blog.heritage.org/2013/04/25/now-congress-wants-to-exempt-itself-from-obamacare/ It matters not that premiums are expensive for us; but, it does matter if they are expensive for them. That's how our elected elite think about themselves vs. the people who pay their salaries and now face higher cost health insurance premiums to boot. Only fair, right?
George Burns
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