clownboy
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Incorrect. Don't get your information from blogs and email forwards.
They get to keep their cadillac plan untouched and undiminished and it continues to be provided by their employers. Like certain unions they gave themselves a waiver.
I do note that Politifact says this:
"On the assertion that Members of Congress are exempt from the provisions of the Affordable Care Act: also false," he wrote. "Members of Congress are subject under the health care reform law to the same mandate that others are to purchase insurance, and their plans must have the same minimum standards of benefits that other insurance plans will have to meet. Members of Congress currently have not a gold-plated free plan but the same insurance options that most other federal employees have, and they do not have it provided for free. They have a generous subsidy for their premiums, but no more generous (and compared to many businesses or professions less generous) than standard employer-provided subsidies throughout the country."
Which of course is total doublespeak and a lie. They have the best plan available and it is subsidized for them.
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