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Congressman Gerry Connolly Uses the D.C. Obamacare Exchange For his Health Insurance - And Receives a 72% Subsidy
Posted by:
Special Cases
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Date: April 17, 2017 07:14AM
The ACA requires members of Congress and many congressional staffers to leave the Federal Employees Health Benefit Program and join the health-care exchanges in the District. Through the federal plan, lawmakers and their staff members had about 70 percent of their insurance premiums covered by the federal government.
But members and their staff members generally make too much money to qualify for subsidies in the exchanges, which were intended for people who previously did not get insurance from employers. So the Obama administration made an exception that allowed them to use the D.C. small-business exchange to receive health-care stipends from their employer (the federal government).
Yes, you read that correctly. The law allows individual congressional offices to be counted as small businesses of 50 or fewer employees.
On the exchanges, members and staff members get an employer (i.e., taxpayer) contribution of 72 percent for their premiums. So this allowed them to receive a similar subsidy as they did under the federal health plan.
You have to wonder whether he gets to keep his doctor also.
But members and their staff members generally make too much money to qualify for subsidies in the exchanges, which were intended for people who previously did not get insurance from employers. So the Obama administration made an exception that allowed them to use the D.C. small-business exchange to receive health-care stipends from their employer (the federal government).
Yes, you read that correctly. The law allows individual congressional offices to be counted as small businesses of 50 or fewer employees.
On the exchanges, members and staff members get an employer (i.e., taxpayer) contribution of 72 percent for their premiums. So this allowed them to receive a similar subsidy as they did under the federal health plan.
You have to wonder whether he gets to keep his doctor also.
Re: Congressman Gerry Connolly Uses the D.C. Obamacare Exchange For his Health Insurance - And Receives a 72% Subsidy
Posted by:
Socialist Medicine
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Date: April 17, 2017 07:14AM
Socialist medicine - where some people are more equal than others.
Re: Congressman Gerry Connolly Uses the D.C. Obamacare Exchange For his Health Insurance - And Receives a 72% Subsidy
Posted by:
mtPbY
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Date: April 21, 2017 05:39PM
They have universal healthcare in Australia and those who can afford it buy private insurance. In other words, socialized medicine stinks, there will always be better medical care for those who can afford it.
Re: Congressman Gerry Connolly Uses the D.C. Obamacare Exchange For his Health Insurance - And Receives a 72% Subsidy
Posted by:
supplement
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Date: April 23, 2017 01:05PM
If you can buy a Medicare supplement and a Tricare supplement, why can't you buy an Obamacare supplement?
Re: Congressman Gerry Connolly Uses the D.C. Obamacare Exchange For his Health Insurance - And Receives a 72% Subsidy
Posted by:
utctG
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Date: April 23, 2017 01:33PM
Socialist Medicine Wrote:
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> Socialist medicine - where some people are more
> equal than others.
You could say the same about the system in place before Obamacare.
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> Socialist medicine - where some people are more
> equal than others.
You could say the same about the system in place before Obamacare.
Re: Congressman Gerry Connolly Uses the D.C. Obamacare Exchange For his Health Insurance - And Receives a 72% Subsidy
Posted by:
U6mnC
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Date: May 02, 2017 09:56AM
Not fair.
Re: Congressman Gerry Connolly Uses the D.C. Obamacare Exchange For his Health Insurance - And Receives a 72% Subsidy
Posted by:
Adam1111R
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Date: October 29, 2020 07:58AM
I think that they have the best healthcare and those who can afford it buy private insurance, socialized medicine stinks, there will always be better medical care for those who can afford it not for us. Is therapy covered by insurance? I read an article before and I understood that it is covered now. Do you know something about it? I want to buy this insurance for my granny because she needs some therapies which cost a lot for her. I will wait for some feedbacks. Or you can give the best advice about what I can make in this case.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/31/2020 07:14AM by Adam1111R.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 10/31/2020 07:14AM by Adam1111R.