Congress Implicated In Obamacare Scandal
They didn’t fess up willingly. But after we applied the appropriate pressure, government officials responsible for operating the Washington D.C. Obamacare “Small Business Exchange” have finally admitted that Congress is taking advantage of health benefits its members and staff are not entitled to claim.
At least 12,359 members of Congress, congressional staffers, and their spouses and dependents currently purchase health insurance in D.C.’s Small Business Exchange even though Congress far exceeds D.C. law’s 50-employee limit for participating in the exchange. That’s why we filed a lawsuit in October on behalf of Kirby Vining, a D.C. taxpayer, against the D.C. Health Exchange Authority. In a court filing, the D.C. government conceded that, under D.C. law, the U.S. Congress is not permitted to obtain insurance through the District’s Small Business Exchange. But members of the political class, true to form, do not believe t
dc. i didn t realize that my insurance was being sold to the maryland exchange. i was looking at the dc exchange. they had extended it. i could have ended up without health insurance. i would suggest people get on top of it immediately. did you get a plan like the president s? you were on the show with me last week. we were going back and forth about whether or not president obama should sign up. he ended up doing that. he got a bronze plan. i was able to extend my plan to october 2014 with blue cross and plu shieblue shield. to get the same plan with the same deductible right now. i would be double the premium. i m putting that off. as we look into the future. everyone wants to come into the
aides did it for him and he s not even enrolled because as we said it s symbolic. so he signed up but not really. this initial statement from the white house said over the weekend the president enrolled in the dc exchange, symbolically, because he gets the health care from the military. as you all know the president is one of the 85% of americans who gets his health insurance through his employer. like previous presidents, he is privileged to receive health care from the military. the act of the president signing up is symbolic since the president s health care will continue to be provided by the military. then a short while later some more information from white house officials saying that part about the president signing up didn t really happen. because it s a special case, his information is privileged and whatnot. this was a rare case, there are others who have to do this, this is a rare case where the president had to sign up in person if he wanted to enroll. over the weekend
risks. what is that? when i first read that today i thought they are going to hire somebody to make sure that all of these people who are signing up and putting their personal information was going to be a security person for that. that is not what it is it? it seems from that they are going to be doing what they are supposed to do. i don t want this to in anyway mask that there is some good news here. what is it? over one million people have signed up for obama care. the sites are getting better and we know that republican congress people are signing up on the dc