Monday, July 1, 2013

Obamacare? We were just leaving …

This is an incredible story.  An amendment was put on Obamacare so that federal government employees would be treated like other citizens.  Now there's tremendous pressure to "fix" this problem, because if it isn't a lot of these employees are planning on leaving before the end of the year.

To put this in perspective, a local construction company told us today they were dropping employee health insurance on January 1.  No one is suggesting a fix for that.  Apparently it's okay for non-government workers to suffer, but not okay for the government workers.


Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year thanks to Obamacare that they are thinking about retiring early or just quitting.

The fear: Government-subsidized premiums will disappear at the end of the year under a provision in the health care law that nudges aides and lawmakers onto the government health care exchanges, which could make their benefits exorbitantly expensive.





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