A story written by John Lott and posted at FoxNews.com demonstrates even more “special favors” that the authors of the Health Care reform bill have given themselves. Below is a key excerpt.
While everyone else in the United States — from the top corporate executives to the grocery store checkout clerk — will be forced to buy their insurance through heavily regulated state-run exchanges, the health care bill excludes one group: the leadership and committee staff. Yes, that’s right. The very people who wrote up this bill are refusing to be included themselves. Given the narrow definition of “congressional staff” on page 158 of the health care bill, the Congressional Research Service memo believes that courts will not require “professional committee staff, joint committee staff, some shared staff, as well as potentially those staff employed by leadership offices” to go through the exchanges. President Obama and his family are also exempt from the law.
Thanks to Zack for forwarding this story to me to post here.
If I were one of those flunky staff members, I would require that each state lottery commission have ME email them the lottery number which would be the official winners one hour before the announcement is made. And that I be allowed to buy one ticket. Why not? Nobody is ever going to question anything they do….right? It sounds stupid, but isn’t this story just that stupid? Hey, we are writing this bill. It is crappy for the people, so….I know, let’s say that everybody in the country have to live with it but us!