{"id":466922,"date":"2010-03-24T11:43:25","date_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/blog.php?view=33925"},"modified":"2010-03-24T11:43:25","modified_gmt":"2010-03-24T15:43:25","slug":"loophole-in-healthcare-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/466922","title":{"rendered":"Loophole in Healthcare Bill?"},"content":{"rendered":"

By gintstopgitprr<\/p>\n

From this morning’s Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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“…The bill requires ‘congressional staff’ to buy insurance from the exchanges – with a stipend from the Office of Personnel Management But page 158 of the bill defines ‘congressional staff’ narrowly, as “employees employed by the official office of a member of congress, whether in the district office or in Washington.”<\/p>\n

The Congressional Research Service believes a court could rule that the legislation ‘would exclude professional committee staff, joint committee staff, some shared staff, as well as potentially those staff employed by leadership offices.’<\/p>\n

If that’s so, staffers who work for Nancy Pelosi in her capacity as representative from California would go into the exchange program, while staffers who work for her in her capacity as speaker would stay on the government’s plan. Other Capitol employees, like those who work for the Clerk of the House or the House Historian, would be similarly exempted.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Grassley has offered up an amendment that would apply to previously excluded staff.<\/p>\n

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“The new health care law creates two double standards. The congressional staff who wrote the new law exempted themselves from the new health care system, while other staff will be in it,” Grassley said today in a statement. “And, President Obama himself will not live under Obama health care. The message to grassroots America is that it’s good enough for you, but not for us.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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