Congressional Offices Tackle Obamacare

Associated Press:
“Think you’re confused by ‘Obamacare.’ It’s roiling Capitol Hill behind
the scenes, too. Members of Congress are governing themselves under
President Barack Obama’s signature law, which means they have great
leeway in how to apply it to their own staffs. For House members and
senators, it’s about a section of the law that may — or may not —
require lawmakers to toss some staffers off of their federal health
insurance and into the Affordable Care Act’s exchanges. The verdict from
congressional officers is ultimately that lawmakers, as employers, have
discretion over who among their staffs gets ejected, and who stays. And
they don’t have to say who, how many or why.”