Democratic Legislator Says It’s Not Fair That Hill Staffers Might Have to Buy Insurance Through Obamacare’s Exchanges
15th June 2013
Of course he does. Servants of the Crust ought not to have to suffer what they put the rest of the country through! That’s just wrong!
The report indicates that Democrats want to alter the requirement, but know that it may not be easy politically. That’s hardly surprising given that “the provision was put in the bill in the first place on the theory that if Congress was going to make the country live under the provisions of Obamacare, the members and staff should have to as well.” Rep. John Larson, a Democrat from Connecticut, however, thinks that requirement is unreasonable. If the problems many Hill staffers have with the requirement are not resolved, he told Politico, “I think we should begin an immediate amicus brief to say, ‘Listen this is simply not fair to these employees.’ They are federal employees.” So it’s unfair to require federal employees to participate in one of the central features of a law they passed?