{"id":31309,"date":"2017-08-03T08:49:46","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31309"},"modified":"2017-08-03T08:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T12:49:46","slug":"why-congress-failed-to-repeal-obamacare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31309","title":{"rendered":"Why Congress Failed To Repeal ObamaCare"},"content":{"rendered":"

For seven years, Republicans promised to repeal ObamaCare<\/a> if voters gave them the House, the Senate, and the White House<\/a>. Last week they failed to repeal ObamaCare. What were some of the things that kept them from keeping their promise.<\/p>\n

Yesterday CBN News<\/a> posted an article about some of the things about the relationship between Congress<\/a> and ObamaCare that were not widely reported.<\/p>\n

The article reports some of that history:<\/p>\n

In 2009, when lawmakers were debating Obamacare, Sen. Chuck Grassley<\/a>, R-Iowa, put forth an amendment calling for congressional employees to subject themselves to insurance coverage under the Affordable Care Act. The amendment was unanimously adopted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“The whole point of this provision was to make them feel the pain if it didn’t work,” Kerpen<\/a> (Phil Kerpen, president of American Commitment) said in an interview Wednesday with CBN’s Pat Robertson.<\/strong><\/p>\n

One flaw in the final Senate bill was that the amendment did not include employer contributions. Consequently, when Obamacare passed, it terminated coverage that members and their staff previously had through the Federal Employee Health Benefit program, which subsidized about 75 percent of their health care plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…Senate Democrats met with President Barack Obama<\/a> in 2013 to address this problem. After the meeting, Obama directed the Office of Personnel Management<\/a> (OPM) to issue a rule qualifying both the U.S. House of Representatives<\/a> and Senate as small businesses, which is a label legally only given to businesses with less than 50 employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kerpen says one person filed “blatantly false documents,” which were obtained by Judicial Watch<\/a>, in order to sign up 12,000 people in an exchange that should only apply to companies with 50 employees or fewer.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…When President Trump threatens to end the bailouts for members of Congress for Obamacare, he is threatening to direct the OPM to reverse Obama’s regulation allowing employer contributions to exchange plans.<\/strong><\/p>\n

If this rule is reversed, members and their staff would lose their government-funded subsidies and be subjected to paying the premiums people without employer coverage have to pay that make too much money to qualify for subsidies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“This is mandatory work they’ve got to get done for the American people<\/a>,” Kerpen said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This is the tweet from President Trump:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I hope that the President follows through on that threat–Congress is supposed to live under the laws they pass! Insurance Companies should not be compensated for the campaign donations they make!<\/p>\n

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