GOP Senator Threatens Subpoenas Over Congressional Obamacare Exemptions

[endicom]

Townhall
Cortney O'Brien
Oct. 6, 2017

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is ready to subpoena the Office of Personnel Management over the Obamacare exemption they made for Congress that allows lawmakers and their staff to buy health care with a government subsidy on a small business exchange, instead of an individual one.

    Under the Obama administration, OPM made a special decision to categorize Congress as a small business, allowing lawmakers and their aides to buy on the Small Business Health Options Plan (SHOP) exchange. This way, they could keep getting government payments as an employer contribution. (Fox News)

Why, Johnson wants to know.

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[Sanguine]

No way is Congress a small business.  More like an enormous one.

[endicom]

No way is Congress a small business.  More like an enormous one.

Big Bicameral.

[skeeter]

No way is Congress a small business.  More like an enormous one.

I don't know of too many small businesses that have a 4.2 trillion dollar budget.

[RoosGirl]

I don't know of too many small businesses that have a 4.2 trillion dollar budget.

Or about 6,000 employees.

[DB]

Or about 6,000 employees.

We are all employees whether we want to be or not. We work, they profit from it.

[endicom]

We are all employees whether we want to be or not. We work, they profit from it.

Employees can quit.

[DB]

Employees can quit.

You can quit. I can quit. We can start sucking up welfare benefits and/or go off the grid. It isn't who most of are.

I will grant you that is a fine line to being a slave.

In truth we've made a bargain with the devil and the devil keeps demanding more...