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发帖数: 42116 | 1 Harry Reid exempts some of his Senate staff from Obamacare exchanges
民主党通过的法律，他们自己不执行。
The news will likely provide another talking point to critics of the
healthcare law, commonly known as Obamacare. After all, members of Congress
and their staff are not only required to buy insurance through the exchanges
, they must buy plans in the “gold” tier, the second most-expensive option
available.
Yahoo News has reached out to the offices of all 100 U.S. senators to see if
any other members have exempted committee staff from the federal exchange.
So far, the offices of 42 senators have responded to our inquiry, with 37
saying that the senator and their entire staff will switch over to the
exchanges in January.
The offices of Ron Wyden, Tim Johnson, Barbara Boxer and Patty Murray, all
Democrats, said they were exempting some of their staff. Reid, a Democrat
from Nevada, has not responded.
执法部门也不执行。
When the Affordable Care Act passed, it included language that stipulated
Congressional staff members must purchase healthcare plans from the federal
exchange, which is designed specifically for, and limited to, federal
government employees and their families. But the law didn't say that the
government would continue to provide staffers a tax-free subsidy (of around
70 percent), meaning those employees, most of whom wouldn't qualify for the
low-income subsidies, would have to pay for their plan without help from
their "employer."
However, this summer The Office of Personnel Management, the government's HR
department, decided the government would provide staffers with a subsidy
roughly equivalent to what they've been receiving. While it's technically
true staffers have not been exempted from the law, as some Republicans
claimed, staffers have been provided a privilege that is not written into
the law. |
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