[ExI] Tap tap..Hello? Is this thing on? (Or Zombie Apocalypse!)

[Adrian Tymes]

On Oct 16, 2013 8:54 AM, "spike" <spike66 at att.net> wrote:
> The irony is that congressional proponents of ObamaCare want to make sure
congress is exempt from it.  Congressional opponents of ObamaCare are
arguing that congress should be subject to the rules they impose on the
proletariat.

Did the House actually pass a budget bill, this year, including that
Congress would be under the same insurance rules as the general public, and
the Senate vetoed it?  If so, do you have a source for this?  (My
impression is, advocacy aside they have not actually passed a bill w/those
terms for the Senate to veto - at least, not in the current showdown.
Insofar as Congress was exempt in the first place: they already have
insurance that meets the minimums, and the point of the ACA is to make sure
everyone does; those that do, there's little to no direct affect on,
secondary effects from others getting insurance aside.)

> The only person in government who has read the whole thing is Ted Cruz

Now now.  Its authors read it, and they are "in government" even if they
were not elected by the general American public.
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