Republican Grassley wants ObamaCare to apply to President, top administration officials

The President, Vice President, cabinet members and top White House staff are all exempt from ObamaCare. And Republican Senator Chuck Grassley wants to change that.

You're a dreamer, Chuck Grassley, a dreamer

The President, Vice President, cabinet members and top White House staff are all exempt from ObamaCare. And Republican Senator Chuck Grassley wants to change that.


“It’s pretty unbelievable that the President and his closest advisors remain untouched by the reforms they pushed for the rest of the country. In other words, President Obama’s health care reform won’t apply to President Obama,” Grassley said. “Last December, the effort to apply any new law to administration political leaders was rejected by the Senate Majority Leader. But there’s no justification for the double standard, and I’ll continue to work to establish fairness.”

The Senate legislation passed…by the House of Representatives includes an amendment Grassley sponsored and got adopted by the Finance Committee last fall to have members of Congress and their staffs get their health insurance through the same health insurance exchanges where health plans for the general public would be available. During the closed-door negotiations on the bill late last year, the Senate Majority Leader carved out Senate committee and leadership staff from this requirement.

Subsequently, Grassley and Senator Tom Coburn attempted to offer another amendment to restore the requirement during Senate debate on the health care bill, but the Senate Majority Leader would not let their amendment to fix this loophole even come up for a vote. In addition to Senate committee and leadership staff, the amendment Grassley and Coburn filed during the Senate debate would have made the President, the Vice President, top White House staff and cabinet members all get their health insurance through the newly created exchanges. It would not have applied to federal employees in the civil service.

Grassley said, “It’s only fair and logical that top administration officials, who fought so hard for passage of this overhaul of America’s health care system, experience it themselves. If it’s as good as promised, they’ll know it first-hand. If there are problems, they’ll be able to really understand them, as they should.”

Grassley said the motivation for his amendments is simple: public officials who make the laws or lead efforts to have laws changed should live under those laws.

Let’s reverse this, Senator Grassley, and demand that the kind of healthcare the top Democrats receive.

Hairplugs like Joe Biden’s for everyone! Botox like Nancy Pelosi’s for everyone. Dull pills like Harry Reid’s for everyone!

Now that’s a healthcare plan we could support.

Source: Grassley.Senate.gov

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