{"id":242571,"date":"2017-07-31T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=242571"},"modified":"2017-08-01T16:01:17","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T20:01:17","slug":"trump-threatens-congressional-obamacare-subsidies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2017\/07\/31\/trump-threatens-congressional-obamacare-subsidies\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Threatens Congressional Obamacare Subsidies"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: I\u2019m looking for a story here. People, I think, are confused about whether members of Congress are on Obamacare or not. They attempted to exempt themselves in this latest round. Remember, they were caught, in the repeal and replace, the skinny repeal and all that, they were caught. They were gonna exempt themselves whatever they passed. Here\u2019s why. You may have forgotten this.<\/p>\n

\"\"The original Obamacare, when it became law, congressional staffers, the people that work for members of the House and Senate, complained loudly they couldn\u2019t afford it. Many of these people make six figures. Not all of them. Some staff will make as high as, what, 147 to $150,000. Most are not that high, but a lot of them make six figures. And they almost got together as a union and complained that they couldn\u2019t afford it. They were exempt — well, they were not permitted to play ball in one of the Obama exchanges because D.C. isn\u2019t a state.<\/p>\n

Well, you might remember that Obama, after all the caterwauling, issued an executive order that effectively ran Senate and congressional staffers through the Office of Personnel Management, which gave them a 70% subsidy on the purchase of Obamacare insurance.<\/p>\n

Well, it turns out that members of the House and Senate got the same deal. They\u2019re on Obamacare, but they are subsidized to the same degree that people who can\u2019t afford it are. That\u2019s what they want to hold on to. The original Obamacare bill did not — it\u2019s kind of a convoluted thing, but they were not exempted.<\/p>\n

This was one of the things that some insisted on. Not fully. And the only way that Obama — since D.C. was not permitted to have an exchange \u2019cause it\u2019s not a state, the Office of Personnel Management is how Obama chose to run the money, the budget item that allocated the money for members of Congress and their staffs.<\/p>\n

Now, the members of Congress thing didn\u2019t get publicized. When the news was made about this, it was all that the staff was unable to afford it. And they were openly complaining. I\u2019ll never forget it. These are people that work in Washington, and it was as though they had no idea that they had just helped pass a law that even more Americans were unable to afford, Americans making far less than they, the staffers make, and yet here they were caterwauling and complaining, “We can\u2019t afford it, it\u2019s too expensive.”<\/p>\n

What do you think that means for everybody else out there? But that didn\u2019t seem to register with them. It was all about what they needed and what they wanted. And so they were effectively — I think the number is 70% — I think they were effectively subsidized 70% of the premiums so they could afford it. Government, in other words, is paying for Senate and congressional staffers\u2019 health care and members of the House and Senate. They are under Obamacare but heavily subsidized.<\/p>\n

Was a special exchange created or something for D.C.? I think there was some convoluted change in the law that Obama did via executive order that created an effective exchange for government officials to use in Washington. But it\u2019s not a state exchange. The only outfits that could actually have exchanges were the states, by statute.<\/p>\n

And a lot of people are confused now because of the news from last week that members of Congress wanted to exempt themselves from what they were passing. And the reason that they wanted to exempt themselves is because they like what they\u2019ve got. They\u2019re being subsidized right now and they didn\u2019t want that to change no matter what else they did.<\/p>\n

I remember we had a caller from last week that said that\u2019s the news that people need to hear. In addition to all these Republicans promising in campaigns to repeal it, then when the moment of truth comes, failing to do so. I think she had a point.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s Ted. Ted\u2019s in Portage, Michigan. You\u2019re up next, sir, and it\u2019s great to have you here. Hi.<\/p>\n

CALLER: Hi. It\u2019s great to talk to you.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Thank you, Ted.<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: My point is — I actually have two. The first is you keep talking about critical thinking, and I agree with that. Well, it\u2019s time for us to become critical thinkers and realize that the Republicans are never going to accomplish what they said they were going to. Look at the past history. I mean, Benghazi, lots of hearings. Nothing happened. IRS. Lots of hearings. Nothing happened. All of these investigations that they do basically result in nothing.<\/p>\n

So my point is that our goal should be to limit the amount of damage they can do at this point and basically primary every single one of them with good, solid candidates. The coalition that elected Trump needs to find people who basically can answer the challenge, prepare themselves, and be solid candidates. That\u2019s my first point.<\/p>\n

RUSH: What I hear you saying out there, Ted, is that Trump actually needs to spearhead a new party. That Trump voters actually need to organize effectively into a New Party. They call themselves Republicans, but it\u2019s effectively a new party where they primary incumbents and try to replace them.<\/p>\n

CALLER: I believe that is true. I think that that is the only hope.<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, that\u2019s always been why third parties, actual third parties, failed, is because all they ever had is a presidential candidate. They\u2019ve never had a —<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, they can run under the Republican banner but they simply have to be a strong, solid candidates. What usually happens in primaries is they find somebody who\u2019s gonna be in town in November, and that\u2019s who they run. I\u2019m talking about finding people now who can be actually brought up to speed and get name recognition and be real solid candidates.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right. Playing devil\u2019s advocate, all the people you\u2019re talking about have seen what has happened to Trump by the media. How many of them do you think want the same kind of never ending, daily anal exam, including their families, including their tax returns, including who they\u2019ve ever met from Russia? How many people would put up with what Trump has put up with?<\/p>\n

CALLER: Well, I think there is a core — and I\u2019m one of them, I mean, quite honestly. Yeah, I realize it would be difficult and there\u2019s always going to be casualties, but we\u2019ve come to the point now where you either roll over and accept what\u2019s coming or you have to fight. And I am very impressed with Donald Trump. I don\u2019t agree with him on everything. But the kind of abuse that he has stood up under makes the man an absolute hero. I mean, I don\u2019t know any politician who could have done it. So if you look at him and you say, you know what, this guy can do it, I believe there are people out there who would be willing to do it.<\/p>\n

RUSH: All right, Ted —<\/p>\n

CALLER: But we have to find \u2019em.<\/p>\n

RUSH: I hear you. I\u2019ll tell you what he\u2019s saying. Repeal and replace Republicans.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Let me try to end this confusion on whether members of Congress and their staff are on Obamacare. They are. It\u2019s entirely due to an amendment from Charles Grassley that forced them to buy their health insurance via the Obamacare exchanges. As I go through this, I think many of you are gonna remember it. In the early stages (like is the case with practically every piece of legislation), members of Congress find a way to exempt themselves from it. This is something that we\u2019ve cataloged over the years, that there are always two sets of rules.<\/p>\n

\"\"There are rules that all of us have to abide by and rules that leaders have to abide by — and in many cases, they exempt themselves from the very legislation that they pass and that gets signed into law. And Charles Grassley tried to do an end run around that. Grassley had an amendment that forced members of Congress and their staff to buy health insurance via the Obamacare exchanges, and that\u2019s when the staff started bellyaching about how they couldn\u2019t afford it. I\u2019ll never forget this, \u2019cause I thought the irony was rich.<\/p>\n

Here are the people who, in many cases, probably helped write Obamacare, and after it\u2019s passed into law, now they\u2019re complaining they can\u2019t afford it with absolutely no awareness or concern for the same set of circumstances for all the people in the country affected by it? They can\u2019t afford it, either! But when they complain about it, they\u2019re effectively told to shut up. When members of Congress or their staff complain about it, well, then everybody perked up and listened. So what Obama did was order the Office of Personnel Management to transfer the money that Congress had been providing members for health insurance.<\/p>\n

They transferred that money to subsidize the members\u2019 and their staffs\u2019 Obamacare premiums, and they did that simply by bending the rulings and claiming that they are Congress\u2019 employers (laughing) which is not true. Anyway, this led to the creation of an Obamacare exchange in D.C. that is for Congress and their staff only. It\u2019s got some other wrinkles in it, but they\u2019re on Obamacare. They don\u2019t have to face the problems of Obamacare because their premiums are subsidized — it\u2019s actually, 73% — by the taxpayers.<\/p>\n

Which means that they can afford platinum plans that have no deductibles or copays. And the reason this story has surfaced is because Trump is threatening to take away this subsidy, which he can do and probably should. The story is in the Wall Street Journal. “Donald Trump Threatens to Cancel Some Health-Care Benefits for Lawmakers<\/a> — President Donald Trump made one of his most explicit threats to cut off payments to insurance companies to force senators and lobbyists back to the bargaining table for a GOP health care bill, and saying, for the first time, that he was also willing to cancel some of [congressional] health care benefits.<\/p>\n

“‘If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!\u2019 Mr. Trump tweeted Saturday,” and what he\u2019s talking about is eliminating the 73% subsidy that congressional staff and members of Congress get to help them afford Obamacare. “Trump has threatened for months to stop reimbursements from insurance companies, which is part of the Affordable Care Act.” And, by the way, those reimbursements?<\/p>\n

Those bailouts are there because Obama knew that health care, as he had written it — as he had signed into law — was gonna eventually destroy these companies. But the design was for them to all fail at some point, which would then present the government as the last remaining option (i.e., single payer). So if you\u2019re writing a bill that\u2019s gonna destroy the insurance companies and you desperately need them until you destroy them, what do you do? You offer to bail them out during the period of time between now and when single payer comes.<\/p>\n

\"\"That\u2019s what President Obama did. That\u2019s why they\u2019re called bailouts for the insurance companies and “bailouts” is just another word for subsidies. “Trump has threatened for months” to do this, but his administration has always paid them in the end, the subsidies, “including amid significant uncertainty in June and at a critical moment in Republican negotiations just a week ago. The next set of payments, which total millions of dollars for insurers that have lowered deductibles and other out-of-pocket costs for the poorest enrollees, is due in three weeks.<\/p>\n

“Those payments have been challenged in court by House Republicans who argue the money was never authorized by Congress. A federal judge has sided with the House but allowed the subsidy payments to continue until the litigation concludes. Democrats have said that cutting off the payments would be tantamount to sabotaging the insurance markets, and Republicans would bear the blame for this.” Again, that\u2019s backwards. It is a Democrat-mainstream media lie that people getting Obamacare subsidies are so poor.<\/p>\n

Individuals who make over $47,000 a year — which is the median income — qualify for subsidies. The whole point was for everybody to be subsidized so that they would never support getting rid of it. It\u2019s a classic Democrat-statist trick. You create an entitlement; you put everybody on it, as many as possible. There are people earning 70,000 a year who get subsidies for Obamacare insurance. It\u2019s all done on purpose. You start giving away money, it\u2019s gonna be real tough to take it back from them down the road if you have to. This is all part of the design when this thing was written to make repealing it really tough.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why Lisa Murkowski says, “I did not come here to hurt people. I did not get elected to hurt people.” She wasn\u2019t hurting anybody. That was in reaction to the CBO score that 22 million would lose their health insurance. Anyway, the short version here is that Trump is threatening to just get rid of the 73% subsidy for Congress and its staff if they don\u2019t get their act in gear. So the bottom line there is that Trump hasn\u2019t given up. Trump does not think this is over. He\u2019s not acting as though it\u2019s over.<\/p>\n

Now, in the old days, when a major piece of legislation bit the dust, that was it for a long time. This kind of vote was considered final, final. But Trump is not looking at it that way. I don\u2019t think he looks at anything that way, quite honestly. I think Trump\u2019s attitude is, “We\u2019ll take care of it. We\u2019ll take care of everything. We\u2019re eventually gonna take care of this.” He\u2019s not on a timeline here; he doesn\u2019t think it has to be done by this year or else.<\/p>\n

\"\"You know, traditional, conventional Washington thinking is: “You gotta get it done this year. You gotta get it down for the midterms! You gotta get it!” I don\u2019t think he looks at it that way. That frustrates a lot of people who think that he ought to be more conventional politically, strategically, and that sort of thing. But this is why there\u2019s now a bunch of people running around like stuck pigs, because of (chuckling) that 73% subsidy for members of Congress and their staff.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what happened, folks. This is a Forbes article from back April 15, 2016. But now, all of this happened in 2010. Remember, all of this is seven years ago. “The Affordable Care Act threw members and staff out of the federal employee health benefit program.” Remember that? You remember the federal government had a great health insurance plan for federal employees, and at the time a lot of people said, “Why not just make that national?”<\/p>\n

Why not just take that and make that the national health care program? It was that good in the sense that it was that affordable and that beneficial for members of Congress. The Affordable Care Act got rid of that and said that they can only get health benefits through one of the Obamacare exchanges.<\/p>\n

“Under pressure from Congress and the president himself, the federal Office of Personnel Management (which administers benefits for federal workers, including Congress) decided the House and Senate would participate in the District of Columbia\u2019s ‘Small Business Health Options Program,\u2019 or ‘SHOP\u2019 Exchange, rather than the Exchanges that exist for individuals.”<\/p>\n

So, once again, a separate entity was created for federal employees in Washington, Small Business Health Options Program. The reason is that federal law would not allow members and staff to keep receiving a taxpayer contribution of up to $12,000 toward their premiums if they enrolled in individual market exchanges.<\/p>\n

See, the original Obamacare law would not allow them to do that because they were in D.C. Well, if they couldn\u2019t do that, they couldn\u2019t qualify for subsidies. So they started bellyaching, “We can\u2019t afford it, we can\u2019t afford it.” So Obama rode to the rescue and funneled money through the Office of Personnel Management that got them on this SHOP program, Small Business Health Options Program, and that\u2019s how they got covered, and that\u2019s how they ended up being subsidized 73% on their premiums and copays.<\/p>\n

“Both federal and D.C. law expressly prohibited any employer with more than 50 employees from participating D.C.\u2019s SHOP Exchange.” Well, how can members of Congress be on it? Because the federal government certainly employs more than 50 people. Well, the Office of Personnel Management had to change the rules. And the Forbes article argues that what they did was that illegal but that everybody ignored it. That\u2019s why Trump can easily do away with it if he chooses to.<\/p>\n

BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n

RUSH: Springfield, South Dakota. It\u2019s Larry. Welcome, sir. Great to have you with us. How you doing?<\/p>\n

\"\"CALLER: Thanks the for taking my call, Rush. I\u2019ll get right to the point. About three weeks ago you had on your program that Obama had put across this bill, the health care bill, it stated this: This bill can be changed any time at the discretion of the Health and Human Services director. Now, why don\u2019t we just let that thing fail and change it to what he said?<\/p>\n

RUSH: Well, I\u2019m glad you brought this up. Let me explain this again. In Obamacare as it exists now, there are three separate mandates. And most people are only aware of two. There\u2019s the employer mandate, says your employer has to provide insurance if the company is larger than 50 employees. Then there is the personal mandate which says that you have to buy the insurance.<\/p>\n

The third mandate is actually the statutory mandate called the Essential Health Benefits, and these are regulations that Obama just created after the law was passed, and they contain things like forcing the Catholic Church to insure for abortion, forcing 75-year-old people to insure against pregnancy, these kind of things. And the reason that these Essential Health Benefits are in there is to raise money for the sick and the elderly. That\u2019s the whole portfolio plan, to get young people who don\u2019t need any health care or coverage spending gobs of money to subsidize the treatment for the poor and the elderly.<\/p>\n

Now, health care, Obamacare as written, over 2,000 pages, frequently contains the passage “or as the secretary shall determine,” and what it means is that the secretary of Health and Human Services is permitted to adjudicate disputes or just create things within Obamacare. This was done on purpose, obviously, at the outset. They know they\u2019re creating a new entitlement and let the federal government, the bureaucracy just write regulation after regulation without having to go through Congress and load this thing up with benefit after benefit after benefit that makes it practically impossible to one day repeal it.<\/p>\n

Now, the original Republican health care plan in the House, remember, there were three phases. And Phase I was to repeal; Phase II was to replace, and Phase III was to let Tom Price, the secretary of Health and Human Services, once the mandates were gone, then start stripping out some of the Obamacare Essential Health Benefits. Because of the way the law\u2019s written, the Health and Human Services secretary, we can\u2019t cancel the Obama Essential Health Benefits, the third mandate.<\/p>\n

The mandates have to be statutorily removed before that could — But that was the pan. And the objection to that plan always, “Well, why just repeal the whole thing? If you\u2019re going to leave in the provisions empowering the secretary of Health and Human Services to either add to or subtract from, there\u2019s gonna be a Democrat president someday who\u2019s gonna be able to put all this garbage back in there. Why not just repeal this and get rid of it?” Which remained and still remains the argument.<\/p>\n

The reason they can\u2019t start doing that now is because the mandates are still in place. It\u2019s a statutory thing. It may sound hard to understand. But you can\u2019t start removing the Obama EHBs, community rating, all that stuff, until the mandates are gone, both the employer and personal. And since we haven\u2019t repealed anything, we can\u2019t do it.<\/p>\n

All that\u2019s gonna happen now is that whatever death spiral that Obamacare is in is going to continue. Premiums are gonna continue to rise. Insurance companies are gonna continue to abandon exchanges. Some exchanges are going to fall by the wayside. But there remain a number of states who got all kinds of new Medicaid money in the Medicaid expansion, and they don\u2019t want to give that money up, and they were lobbying members of the Senate to not repeal Obamacare \u2019cause they didn\u2019t want to lose all this new federal money they were getting to help people in their states with Medicaid coverage, treatment and so forth.<\/p>\n

\"\"It\u2019s a classic illustration of the intricately woven web that results when leftists in Washington, who are the total authors of this — there\u2019s not a single Republican fingerprint on Obamacare. Despite their recent votes not to repeal it, there\u2019s not a single Republican vote for it. So this mess is entirely the creation of a utopian — actually, a fantasy, utopian bunch of people, the American left and the Democrat Party, thinking they were creating affordable health care for all Americans.<\/p>\n

When in fact what they really knew they were doing was creating something that was going to implode, which would lead to people clamoring and demanding that the federal government take it over to fix it. Which is where we\u2019re headed, because it\u2019s not designed to survive, and it\u2019s in the middle of imploding. Trump said, “Let it implode. Just let it go down the tubes. The Democrats are gonna own it.” That\u2019s his hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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