Vitter Reintroduces “No Washington Exemption from Obamacare”
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"It becomes clearer every day that Obamacare is an unaffordable, unworkable law. But unlike the
Last fall Vitter fought to get a vote on his legislation, but Senate Majority Leader
Currently members of
Go to: http://www.vitter.senate.gov/search?q=no+exemption&access=p&as_dt=i&as_epq=&as_eq=&as_lq=&as_occt=any&as_oq=&as_q=&as_sitesearch=&client=&sntsp=0&filter=0&getfields=&lr=&num=15&numgm=3&oe=UTF8&output=xml_no_dtd&partialfields=&proxycustom=&proxyreload=0&proxystylesheet=default_fRPCtend&requiredfields=&sitesearch=&sort=date%3AD%3AS%3Ad1&start=0&ud=1 to read some of Vitter's efforts to pass his "No Washington Exemption from Obamacare."
Additional points about Vitter's legislation:
* Clarifies that members do not have the authority to define "official staff" and can thereby not exempt any of their staff from going into the exchange (current
* Prohibits Members, political appointees, President and Vice President from receiving tax-payer funded contributions in the form of subsidies, tax credits, or employer contribution to purchase insurance on the exchange- as in most of these cases they earn well above the maximum income (
Additional points on why this legislation is necessary:
* The Obamacare statute states very clearly that all Members of
* No ordinary American at the same income level buying on the Exchange would receive any government subsidy, much less one worth approximately
* This illegal rule not only gave
* On
* This gave the Senate Majority Leader a window to exempt a bulk of his staff from Obamacare, undermining the full intent of the law.
"All I did was follow the law. The law says that if you have committee staff, leadership staff, they stay where they are. If you have other staff, which is most everyone, they go to the exchanges. I followed the Affordable Care Act. It is the law."- Senate Majority Leader
Read this original document at: http://www.vitter.senate.gov/newsroom/press/vitter-reintroduces-no-washington-exemption-from-obamacare
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