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How lawmakers get their health care
May 15, 2017
http://www.nydailynews.com/newswire...lains-lawmakers-health-care-article-1.3166290
The 2010 law set up new health insurance for members of Congress and their staffs through the District of Columbia health care exchange.
Most were kicked out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which government workers use. Even though they can't use the main government insurance program, they still get employer subsidies from the government if they use the DC exchange.
According to a spokesman for the DC Health Benefit Exchange, lawmakers and their staffs select from 57 plans offered by four health insurance companies. There are medical services available on Capitol Hill, as well, including an attending physician who can give exams and write prescriptions.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declined to say whether McConnell uses the exchange.
Politicians are protected from rising health insurance costs, medical costs. American citizens are not.
May 12, 2017
One of the strangest aspects of President Trump’s first 100 days was the rise and resurgence of the American Health Care Act, the bill replacing the Affordable Care Act that passed the House of Representatives on May 4. Inherent in the debate on how the bill’s changes would disproportionately affect women’s health care are concerns about its potential impact on women’s pay and financial health.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/better_l..._it_s_women_who_absorb_most_of_the_shock.html
Republican Freedom Caucus politicians want medical care subsidies for their penis problems, but require women to pay $17,000.00 more than men,if a woman gets pregnant
To justify a bill that allows states to let companies treat what may be the majority of women as inherently sick, Trump and the men of the GOP have convinced themselves that manhood is the norm and womanhood is an aberration. They have complained every time health care has come up for a vote that men shouldn’t have to pay higher premiums so that women can get their mammograms, contraception, and prenatal care covered at affordable rates. Of course, there are conditions specific to the male sex, too, but no Republican legislators have protested that women shouldn’t have to subsidize treatment for those, because prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction happen to regular people, not women-people.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...eing_a_woman_is_a_pre_existing_condition.html
Under Trumpcare, Pregnancy Could Be 425% More Expensive
Premiums for pregnant women could go way
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...25-more-expensive_us_591076e2e4b0e7021e99462b
May 15, 2017
http://www.nydailynews.com/newswire...lains-lawmakers-health-care-article-1.3166290
The 2010 law set up new health insurance for members of Congress and their staffs through the District of Columbia health care exchange.
Most were kicked out of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program, which government workers use. Even though they can't use the main government insurance program, they still get employer subsidies from the government if they use the DC exchange.
According to a spokesman for the DC Health Benefit Exchange, lawmakers and their staffs select from 57 plans offered by four health insurance companies. There are medical services available on Capitol Hill, as well, including an attending physician who can give exams and write prescriptions.
A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., declined to say whether McConnell uses the exchange.
Politicians are protected from rising health insurance costs, medical costs. American citizens are not.
May 12, 2017
One of the strangest aspects of President Trump’s first 100 days was the rise and resurgence of the American Health Care Act, the bill replacing the Affordable Care Act that passed the House of Representatives on May 4. Inherent in the debate on how the bill’s changes would disproportionately affect women’s health care are concerns about its potential impact on women’s pay and financial health.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/better_l..._it_s_women_who_absorb_most_of_the_shock.html
Republican Freedom Caucus politicians want medical care subsidies for their penis problems, but require women to pay $17,000.00 more than men,if a woman gets pregnant
To justify a bill that allows states to let companies treat what may be the majority of women as inherently sick, Trump and the men of the GOP have convinced themselves that manhood is the norm and womanhood is an aberration. They have complained every time health care has come up for a vote that men shouldn’t have to pay higher premiums so that women can get their mammograms, contraception, and prenatal care covered at affordable rates. Of course, there are conditions specific to the male sex, too, but no Republican legislators have protested that women shouldn’t have to subsidize treatment for those, because prostate cancer and erectile dysfunction happen to regular people, not women-people.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/xx_facto...eing_a_woman_is_a_pre_existing_condition.html
Under Trumpcare, Pregnancy Could Be 425% More Expensive
Premiums for pregnant women could go way
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...25-more-expensive_us_591076e2e4b0e7021e99462b
