The Senate this week warned lawmakers and their staff not to sign up for
Obamacare’s health exchanges, saying that the administration hasn’t yet
finalized the rules for how to keep paying for their premiums.“Members and staff are advised that they should delay enrolling in health insurance plans until we are able to offer further guidance as to how they should enroll in these insurance plans for 2014,” the Senate disbursing office said in an email
to staffers Monday. “Premature enrollment could adversely impact eligibility for the employer premium contribution.”During the 2009 health care debate Congress approved language insisting that lawmakers and staffers in their personal offices will lose their federal health plans and must shop for plans on the exchanges — though last month’s ruling by the Office of Personnel Management said taxpayers will still continue to pay 72 percent of the premiums.
Republicans said that’s a benefit most Americans won’t get.
“If Obamacare is going to force Americans all over this country to lose their employer-provided health insurance, be forced onto the exchange with no subsidies, then the men and women who serve in this body should feel that pain exactly the same,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, who on Tuesday staged a filibuster to block the chamber floor and draw attention to his fight to defund the health law.
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