U.S. Lawmakers and Staff to Keep Health-Premium Subsidy

Bloomberg  "U.S. lawmakers and members of their staffs can keep receiving the federal government’s medical insurance premium subsidy next year after the 2010 health-care law forces them into new insurance exchanges, according to a proposed Obama administration rule issued today.
"Starting Jan. 1, members of Congress and their aides must purchase coverage on health-insurance exchanges created by the law and being set up in each state. Ambiguities in the law had raised questions about whether congressional staff members would continue receiving government subsidies of as much as 75 percent of their health-care premiums, as they do under the benefits plan covering all federal employees."
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Republican Amendment
"The provision was inserted into the health-care overhaul bill in 2009 by Iowa Senator Charles Grassley, then the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, which drafted the legislation. Grassley said at the time that members of Congress should be forced to live under the laws that apply to other Americans."