It's no secret that Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) hates his healthcare insurance now that it's covered by the Affordable Care Act. Why, the poor beleaguered Republican doesn't even want it anymore, he says on his Congressional website.
On another issue, reports have also surfaced this week that some Members of Congress are considering legislation that would exempt themselves and their staff from the insurance exchanges they are required to join as part of Obamacare. Ironically, the Obama administration, the White House staff, and Department of Health and Human Services' bureaucrats writing thousands of pages of regulations to implement this law, are not subject to the same requirements being forced on others.He fails to mention that the requirement that Congress members and their staff must participate in the health insurance exchanges provided by the Affordable Care Act was introduced by Republican Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa). Grassley tucked this amendment into the act at the last minute so that Congress members and their staffs would be subject to the law in the same way ordinary citizens are, and that they might be moved to improve coverage if they and their staff members found that their own coverage required improvement.
Sen. Burr won't be leading that charge. But he's doing his part, safeguarding Americans from a "disastrous bill [sic]." And how will he be doing that?