08.06.2013
Last Friday, the President met behind closed doors with Congress to grant they and their staff (who have incomes of $100,000 or more) a waiver from paying for participation in health insurance exchanges. Supposedly, 75% of their premium will be paid by us – regardless of their income.You already knew he had reserved the right to grant waivers to unions and donor corporations, correct? And he has done that over 1,200 times to date. Well now he has done it for our employees who ultimately determine their own salaries and benefits. News of this was not released until they had left town under cover of darkness for their month long recess.
It is anticipated this special dispensation will be formally acknowledged next week by President Obama’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM)–one in the same as the federal government’s H.R. department–which is charged with administering federal benefits within the government.

For a succinct and cogent summation of what the unintended consequences of full Affordable Care Act implementation mean to the quality of our nation’s health care, please view this video of Michigan’ Congressman Rodgers as he makes his opening statement to the Chair on health care reform:

http://safeshare.tv/w/zwhKdMtFHf
Admin. – Kenton Henry
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Feature Article

Grassfire

08.05.2013

Moments before shuttering Capitol Hill for a month-long recess, Congress exempted 11,000 members and staff from ObamaCare. News of Friday’s last-minute deal making is especially frustrating since part of ObamaCare’s original sell to the American people was that lawmakers and aides had to use the plan.
According to The Wall Street Journal, both parties went ballistic when they learned staff would incur dramatically higher healthcare costs. “Democrats in particular, begged for help,” and President Obama leapt into action telling them in a closed-door meeting that “he would personally moonlight as H.R. manager and resolve the issue.”

He did … for Congress.

“A behind-closed-doors deal announced after Congress is safely away from the crime scene. This is exactly why America rightly hates Washington,” charged Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) in a press release posted on his official website. “Obamacare’s a train wreck, even for Congress. So it gets fixed … FOR CONGRESS ONLY” (emphasis in original).
Vitter is right. All Americans should be extended the same “resolution” that Congress is getting.

But with Congress safely tucked away in their districts, the countdown continues for the “less fortunate” Americans who, on October 1, start enrolling in ObamaCare.

* Congress returns on Monday, August 9