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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIn tweet, Trump threatens Congress with lose of subsidies for them and staff...
The 'bailouts' are the subsidies. Congress members--and their staffs (lower pay than the congress folks) are under ACA
So, Trump is threatening all of congress and their staff. Anyway-that is what I think he means. Thoughts?
Greg Sargent?Verified account @ThePlumLineGS
Greg Sargent Retweeted Donald J. Trump
The depravity and malevolence of Trump's openly-stated position here needs to be faced head on. My explainer: https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/07/28/now-that-trumpcare-has-failed-its-time-to-drop-all-the-lies/
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Donald J. Trump?Verified account @realDonaldTrump
If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!
11:27 AM - 29 Jul 2017
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In tweet, Trump threatens Congress with lose of subsidies for them and staff... (Original Post)
riversedge
Jul 2017
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sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)1. That's what he means
Congress has to buy plans on the exchanges. They are some of the few Americans that have to do so - many more get employer coverage than get coverage from the exchanges.
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/on-health-care-well-have-what-congress-is-having
If its sometimes hard to understand what makes Republican legislators so angry, here is a theory: their fury may not stem from some ungraspable principle, or hatred of President Obamas historic victory (or of Obama himself), but, rather, from something personal, and selfish. Under the A.C.A., members of Congress, and congressional staff, among other Capitol Hill employees, were no longer eligible for the F.E.H.B.P. In the chilly language of government directives, the Office of Personnel Management Web site said that Section 1312 of the Affordable Care Act requires that Members of Congress and their official staff obtain coverage by health plans created under the Affordable Care Act or coverage offered via an Affordable Insurance Exchange.
Ouch! In other words, the comfortable choices that were available for more than fifty years were suddenly transferred to the slightly murky passageways of Obamacare. And it follows that, if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, members of Congress would be able to return to the federal plan that they, like millions of federal employees, were so fond of. Twenty million other Americans wont.
Ouch! In other words, the comfortable choices that were available for more than fifty years were suddenly transferred to the slightly murky passageways of Obamacare. And it follows that, if the Affordable Care Act is repealed, members of Congress would be able to return to the federal plan that they, like millions of federal employees, were so fond of. Twenty million other Americans wont.
riversedge
(70,310 posts)2. " Twenty million other Americans wont." It will be a return to NOTHING!!
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)3. Odd that a man with six bankruptcies would be complaining about BAILOUTS
I guess some BAILOUTS are more acceptable than others? Especially those that benefit white guys with TEN BILLION DOLLARS for whom life is so unfair.