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To: SilentZ who wrote (748230)	10/21/2013 11:23:17 AM
From: Bonefish	Read Replies (1) of 1586591

Who are you trying to kid.Why shouldn't Congress have to get their insurance through the Obamacare exchanges they set up? dailycaller.com We already knew that Congress intentionally crafted the health care law to permit the president to grant waivers to politically connected unions and corporations. And he has duly done so, more than 1,200 times. Now we learn that Congress also managed to wrangle a waiver for itself. The monumental hypocrisy of this is breathtaking. It’s yet another example of how, more and more, the divide in American politics is not between left and right or between Republican and Democrat — it’s between us and them. Unacknowledged for four years, and through two election cycles, this waiver news was first exposed last night in reports by Politico and CQ Roll Call. Politico says the special treatment will be formally acknowledged next week by President Obama’s Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which is the federal government’s H.R. department, charged with administering federal benefits within the government. According to CQ Roll Call, OPM will announce that it has decided that “the federal government will help pay the cost of premiums” on the new government-run “exchanges” for members of Congress and their staffs, who in turn will “not be eligible for the law’s tax credits and subsidies to buy insurance. Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/02/congress-gets-an-obamacare-waiver/#ixzz2iN5FYtE4

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