{"entry":{"title":"Congress Is Not 'Exempt From Obamacare'","date":"Sat, 28 Sep 2013 04:00:00 +0000","author":"Patrick Brennan, National Review Online","description":"
The Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, has many problematic provisions. Right now one that affects a remarkably small number of Americans — members of Congress and their staff — is attracting a great deal of controversy. It is also causing a great deal of confusion.<\/p>
The dispute has its origin in the debate over the law in 2010. Republican senator Chuck Grassley suggested an amendment intended to make Democrats balk: Members of Congress and their staff would have to buy their insurance from the health-care exchanges. The amendment explicitly said<\/a> that the federal government should continue making the same employer contributions. It was not designed to cut employees’ benefits, but rather to make sure they had a stake in the quality and efficiency of the exchanges. Democrats actually accepted it, and put it into the eventually passed bill, but without the provision for employer contributions.<\/p> <\/p>","original_link":"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/359742\/obamacare-non-exemption-patrick-brennan"}}