Discussion for article #237890
Petty, childish, vengeful, stupid, temper tantrum from another right-wing low-life.
Color me unsurprised.
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Dear Congresscritter, most of the SCOTUS bench are already eligible for Medicare. For their staff, your idea is a good one; it could save them money.
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Dear Congresscritter, Obamacare is not a thing which you sign up for, it is a marketplace that allows you peruse various insurance plans from for-profit corporations in one centralized location.
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The Republicans in Congress and the right in general are nothing, but a whining bunch of petulant, vindictive children.
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Temperamental, but much more temper than mental.
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But see, the Freedom! Party wants to force them to do what they don’t want to do.
Because FREEDOM!
Is he from TX? Is he? Of course he is!
Grow the fuck up. You’re supposed to be a United States Congressman, start acting like one.
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I will give you that the exchanges were clunky in the beginning, but the plan options you get on the exchanges aren’t that different than the options you get directly from your friendly neighborhood insurance agent. The big difference is if you qualify you will get a subsidy.
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And it is up to the Democratic party to make that a part of their messaging.
US Congress gets its coverage through the DC exchange because ACA terminated their old coverage. Their coverage is still taxpayer-funded because Congress is considered a “small business”, or was certified as such, under an agreement with Obama administration. SCOTUS staff might also though not sure.
Much like the Supreme Court itself, everything wrong with the Affordable Care Act is an error on the side of being too conservative. Therefore, Scalia’s new word SCOTUScare is actually pitch perfect. Doubly so, considering the ACA’s biggest shortcoming: the non-expansion of Medicaid which Roberts enabled by invalidating the consequence of opting out. Triply so for female Hobby Lobby employees and their counterparts.
SCOTUScare, SCOTUScare and more SCOTUScare. In fact since SCOTUS obviously cares more about persons than people, Citizens United should be called SCOTUScare too.
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Perhaps TPM could send a reporter to interview the good Congressman about his health insurance. He and his staff are already covered by Obamacare. I believe that they get their Obamacare coverage on the District of Columbia’s small business exchange, so his staff gets subsidies if they are income eligible. The Congressman is ineligible for subsidies, no matter what his family income is, because Republican Congressmen insisted that this be written into the law. So, I’d be grateful if TPM asked the Congressman, where he gets his insurance; what insurance plan he chose; and whether he or his family have used it. Then I would ask him how fair it would have been for him and his staff to continue to get Obamacare through the DC Exchange while his constituents - who pay his salary, lost theirs, which would be the consequence of what he was arguing for.
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Well, sorta: congresscritters and their staffers get coverage through the exchange of their states because they specifically added a clause to ACA that mandates it, and excludes themselves from the FEHB plans for federal employees. Even though there’s no reason other than silly political grandstanding. Which is almost as derpy as this Texas derpball.
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“By eliminating their exemption from Obamacare, they will see firsthand what the American people are forced to live with!”
I never see conservatives tout or quote any bipartisan, independent, peer reviewed studies of the effect the ACA has had on accessibility, quality, cost and overall effectiveness of healthcare in the U.S. They want to denigrate it and blame it for causing many problems, but I can't find widely accepted citations to back up their griping.
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No, that’s not how it works. They - and their staffs - get treated as a small business, pursuant to OPM rules, and get covered by the District of Columbia’s state exchange, so if the Court had ruled against the Administration, all the Republican Senators, Representatives and their staffs would continue to be eligible for subsidies while their constituents would be thrown under the bus. A note: Republican Senators and Representatives got language in the law to prohibit themselves from getting subsidies, but not their staffs who are fully eligible for subsidies.
Petulant politician, judicious judges.
Emphasis on the ‘Scare’ part.
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To which the SCOTUS will reply: “You First, Asshole.”