Thursday evening, Politico reported that the Office of Personnel Management — after the unusual personal involvement of President Obama himself — had decided to issue new regulations this week to protect members of Congress and their staffs from seeing their health care premiums skyrocket once ObamaCare takes effect.
The new rules will protect a relatively small number of politically well-connected individuals, in spite of language in the 2010 health care law that specifically required that Congressmen, Senators and their aides “must be covered by plans ‘created’ by the law or ‘offered through an exchange,’ as Politico detailed.
In spite of the obvious double-standard just months before the law is poised to affect tens of millions of Americans, ABC and NBC have (so far) completely skipped this news, while CBS gave it a grand total of 18 seconds on Friday morning.
In a quick headline segment on her August 2 show, CBS This Morning co-anchor Norah O’Donnell summarized the Politico piece:
Politico says health insurance cost won’t spike for members of Congress and their staffs. The government will continue to pay seventy-five percent of their premiums. The payments were threatened by language in President Obama’s health care law. The President got personally involved in an unusual way to help find a fix.Also on Thursday, acting IRS Commissioner Danny Werfel was asked at a congressional hearing about how the Internal Revenue Service employees’ union is organizing to block a proposal from the Republican chairman of the House Ways and Means committee, Dave Camp, to require those workers — who will have to help implement the health care law — to be covered through ObamaCare’s health insurance exchanges.
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