Republicans exempt their own insurance from their latest health care proposal

[procon]

Republican legislators want to keep popular Obamacare provisions for themselves and their staff.

Update: After Vox reported this story, Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) released a statement saying he would close this loophole. Read the story here. The fix, however, will be contained in separate legislation and not offered as part of the American Health Care Act. The version of the bill the House will vote on Thursday still contains the exemption for legislators described below.

House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.

The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on preexisting conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.

Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-NJ), who authored this amendment, confirmed this was the case: Members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations...

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https://www.vox.com/2017/4/25/15429982/gop-exemption-ahca-amendment

Wait... Obamacare is evidently good enough that the House Republican decided to keep it over their own plan, while they take it away from 24 million Americans and force them to take the GOP's watered down mess... did I read that right?

[elleng]

1. Happened last time too, with ACA.

[Kber]

2. You read it right.

Your issue is that you are apparently not depraved enough to believe that people could actually be such assholes.

[dweller]

3. HR 2192

https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/hr2192

not voted on yet?

[MedusaX]

4. The Amendment to close the Exemption loophole passed today

Voted on in House : 429-0
Right After approving the actual healthcare bill

[procon]

6. Does that mean it still has to pass the Senate ar well? nt

[Wellstone ruled]

5. To be voted on a a latter time.

Hey,it is not going to happen. Bank on it.

[dweller]

7. someone calmly explain this to me pls

This bill has been proposed to be passed in tandem with the American Health Care Act (AHCA), the bill that would replace the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). In order to meet the requirements of the budget reconciliation process so that the AHCA is not subject to the Senate filibuster, the AHCA exempt Members of Congress from some changes to the health care law. This bill, H.R. 2192, removes those exemptions so that Members of Congress face the same health care options as other Americans.

that is the text of HR2192, and reads to me as members of congress ARE subject to the same provisions of today's house plan ...
what am I missing?