Reid and his Utter Audacity!

Reid this morning on the Senate floor: · Spoke on Obamacare. o SUMMARY "Although Senator Vitter has happily allowed the federal government to pay for a portion of his health insurance for many, many years, as a member of the House of Representatives and as a member of the Senate, now he wants to force these 16,000 congressional workers to cover the full cost of their health insurance. With this background one must ask, if Senator Vitter opposes the employer contribution to congressional staffers, does he oppose it also for the 150 million other Americans whose employers help pay their health insurance premiums? Does he want to discourage private employers from doing the right thing and providing their employees with affordable health insurance? Is that what he wants? Just to do away with health insurance that 150 million Americans have in America? Millions, I repeat, millions and millions of employers rely on this important benefit to attract the best and brightest and hardest working people they can find. Ending the employer contribution would effectively slap 150 million Americans with a pay cut and a big pay cut. Is that Senator Vitter's intention? If Republican senators believe they should bear the full cost of their own health insurance, they can without any change in the law can decline the federal government's employer contribution and pay their own way. They can even encourage their own staffs to do so. Why they would want to do that I don't understand but they can do that. But for Senator Vitter and Republican allies to end the contribution for 16,000 hardworking federal employees, even after years of accepting the subsidy themselves is hypocritical and mean-spirited."

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