Harry Reid: Congress’s ObamaCare exemption is “what the law says,” sorry I’m not sorry

ObamaCare’s popularity so far isn’t improving with age, and the special treatment that Congress requested for itself in continuing the federal government’s heavy subsidization of lawmakers’ and staffers’ health care plans through ObamaCare is faring even worse. While Congress seemed generally and very furtively pleased when the White House first announced their glibly unilateral plan to have the Office of Personnel Management issue a ruling that the government can continue to make contributions to their health plans, at least a handful of Republicans have since begun to seize on the idea to expose Democrats’ hypocritical ambitions to escape the “Affordable” Care Act that they claim to love so very much.

Putting Democrats on the defense about why the law creates perverse incentives that Congress gets to bypass, while the rest of America has no choice but to endure, has the potential to be both politically illuminating as well as immensely entertaining. For instance, via the Daily Caller:

Responding to the hoopla surrounding the health insurance policies on Capitol Hill, the Nevada Democrat flatly stated Thursday, “That’s what the law says, and we’ll be part of that.”

Reid said the Republicans and critics are just using the issue as a “diversion” to “try and embarrass the president.”

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