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Health insurance exchanges are set to open this coming tuesday, and then millions of americans are supposed to be able to sign up for health care coverage without the help of federal subsidies, but now lawmakers want the same rules to apply to them, to congress and the administration. chief national correspondent jim angle is in washington with more. many have been asking questions about obamacare. why aren t any officials in it? if it s something that the white house and the administration is saying this is great for the american people, then they need to come be a part of it. if the president thinkings it s such a great idea, then it should apply to him and his political employees as well. this is like going to a fine restaurant and saying this is a fine dining restaurant but the chef doesn t want to eat with you. eat their own cooking if you ....
For everybody else. jim angle is on fox top story at the bottom of the hour for us live from d.c. jim, it s an aspect of the healthcare law that really hasn t gotten much attention. no, that s right, harris, many lawmakers have been asking a a pointed question about obama care, why aren t administration officials part of it? listen. if it is something that the white house and the administration is saying this is great for the american people, then they need to come be a part of it. the president thinks it s such a great idea that it should apply to him and his political appointees as well. like going to a restaurant saying this is a fine dining restaurant but the chef doesn t want to eat the food he prepared for you. representative mccaul has introduced a measure to force key officials to sign up for obama care to eat their own cooking as some put it. efforts also underway in the senate. i consider this almost a first rule of democracy. any law that is passed on a ....
Authority to offer them, listen. why is this president carving out an exception that doesn t exist in the law and only make members of congress and their staff the beneficiaries of it. as far as i m concerned, that s just made up out of thin air. a lot of conservatives rightly get upset when the obama administration does that by administrative fiat. now some worry about congressional staffers who might be hurt. but lawmakers are more determined that they have to participate if he they are going to demand that administration officials do the same. harris? jim, good to see you, thank you. good to see you, thanks. detroit is getting $300 million to keep emergency services running and to clear out neighborhoods that have become ghost towns. but the assistant falls far short of what the system will need to pay all its own loans. the obama administration said today it s sending treasury official done grays to detroit to oversee the distribution of the cash. this summer as you kno ....
Is that there will be subsidies for members about congress and some of their staffers. as they go on to these exchanges as government employees. question to you and the people working for you, will you take the subsidies as a member of congress? well, they had subsidies prior but what they did, they wrote out the health care law was writing out 70% of the bill, taxpayers were paying for all federal employees. we don t intend to take the subsidies. what we want to do is grant everybody a waiver by making them all honorary members of the committee, subcommittees or committees. so this bill, as i was mentioning is written by pell pell staffers. they exempted themselves. nancy pelosi. all the staffers on the committees. this is something should be an outrage. like going to a restaurant but this is fine dining restaurant but the chef doesn t want to eat food he prepared for you. this is outrage and congress should reject it. ....
Unable to understand this. then all of a sudden it is revealed. tells you that the law itself is not only archaic, but tens of thousands of pages are equally arcane. pelosi said you won t know what s in the law until you pass it. no, until three years later when it has been studied, and you still don t know what s in the law. and the reason people are upset is because it allows the administration to manipulate it at will in a way that s completely lawless. a lot of folks are upset about the deal congress worked out with federal agencies before they left town, that their staffers would get a subsidy. doesn t exempt them from exchanges, but they re getting a subsidy they wouldn t have gotten, average person wouldn t get. they are proposing a law to block additional subsidies to lawmakers, not their staffers, but she says as members of congress, we shouldn t be getting this break. if she puts that to vote, does anyone on the hill know? ....