Obamacare: Rule change will exempt the Congress from the healthcare exchanges

Back when Obamacare was being debated Chuck Grassley managed to slip language into the bill which stated that the members of the Congress and their aides had to enroll in the Obamacare exchanges.

This caught many people in the Congress by surprise because, as we know, nobody bothered to read the bill. As America’s Watchtower wrote about here, once the Congress learned they would be subjected to the law they passed leaders like John Boehner and Harry Reid began to negotiate an exemption for themselves and for their aides, claiming the exchanges were too expensive. One would naturally assume that if the exchanges were too expensive for them it would be too expensive for us as well but Washington really isn’t interested in helping the little people.

At some point Barack Obama realized, or perhaps the Congress realized, how politically damaging it would be for the Congress to pass a law exempting themselves from the exchanges so the president stepped in and announced he was working on a solution.

Today we found out what that solution is: The Office of Personnel Management will announce next week rule changes which exempt the Congress and their aides from the healthcare exchanges even though the law explicitly states they must join the exchanges. How they can change a law without passing it in the Congress is beyond me, other than the fact that this is the way the Obama regime operates.

This unelected group of people have changed the letter of the law, the Congress has gotten what it wanted without the embarrassment of voting on it before an election, and we the people still have to abide by a law the Congress doesn’t think is good enough for them.

John Edwards was right all those years ago, there are two Americas: The ruling class elite and the governed. Middle class Americans are the Kulaks in Barack Obama, Harry Reid, and John Boehner’s America and we all know how it ended for the Kulaks.

