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Malibu
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Malibu asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 8 years ago

How about we deFund Congressional Health Care if they vote to deFund ObamaCare?

If you ask me, our elected Congressional and Senatorial Representatives are certainly wealthy enough to pay for their own Health Care - Instead of having us Taxpayers pay for it - what on earth are they doing for us as representatives to earn or deserve FREE Healthcare when they vote against anybody else getting it? Please stay on topic with your answers.

Update:

okay it's not FREE healthcare - but Congress does get what is basically Sngle-Payer Health Insurance that they don't want anyone else but them to be entitled to.

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  • 8 years ago
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    The law is doing that. When Congress required the members of Congress and their staffers to get their health insurance from exchanges set-up by the Affordable Care Act, they forget to include language to have the government pay for health insurance.

    Now the Republicans will not appropriate the funds.

    The staffers are denied an option that private business can do. If a private company put all their employees on the health care insurance exchange, the private company has the option of reimbursing their employees for the insurance bought on the exchange. The government cannot do that because they are not authorized to do that.

    Democrats have no problem with their staffers using Obamacare; they have a problem with not being allowed to reimburse their staffers like a private company.

    If the Republicans were more interested in governing instead of scoring political points, this issue would be resolved already.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    your health care plan under obamacare is anything but free!

    Why did the president grant hundreds of waivers to businesses?

    Why are the unions that pushed for obamacare, now complaining?

    This "law" is destroying full time jobs.

    It needs to be repealed.

  • 8 years ago

    sounds like a great plan. lets hope they do de-fund obama care. and for the billionth time, there is no FREE healthcare.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    We can stop electing Conservatives who only care about themselves and the special interest groups they serve.

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