Schadenfreude is the Best Medicine....

[JayB]

Hahaha.

 

"Lawmakers losing health care?

Nation briefs

Wednesday, April 14, 2010

 

 

 

 

Senators, members of Congress and their staffers are probably upset that they didn’t read the health care bill before approving it.

 

The New York Times reported yesterday that under the new law, 535 members of Congress and thousands of their employees on Capitol Hill might lose their gold-plated federal health care benefits and be forced to obtain insurance like ordinary Americans. That means they’ll have to buy private policies using the insurance exchanges that will go into effect in 2014.

 

The Times said the apparent mistake was discovered by the Congressional Research Service and now Congressional Democrats are scrambling to figure out what to do next. They could put through a bill correcting the error, similar to the bill Congress passed immediately after President Obama signed the law three weeks ago.

 

The research service says the new law has numerous contradictions, and it is unclear exactly who will lose their benefits or when they will lose them.

 

Because the bill didn’t give a date for dropping members of Congress from their current benefits, it is assumed that the effective date was the day the president signed the bill.

 

“This omission, whether intentional or inadvertent, raises questions regarding interpretation and implementation that cannot be definitively resolved by the Congressional Research Service,” the service’s report says. “The statute does not appear to be self-executing, but rather seems to require an administrating or implementing authority that is not specifically provided for by the statutory text.”

[olyclimber]

good, they should!

[prole]

This is funny 'cause our health care system like sucks, right?

[billcoe]

That's the funniest thing I've read in a long long time Jayb, if the boat sinks we can all sink together....

 

 

 

..........now for part 2 - let the healthcare lawsuits begin!