Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) says it’s not fair that members of Congress and their staffs will get special taxpayer subsidies to help them pay their Obamacare premiums in the new health insurance exchanges.
“I don’t think it’s fair at all,” DeSantis told Fox News’s Greta Van Susteren.
“We can’t treat ourselves as a separate governing class. We’re supposed to be serving the American people. So I’m going to file legislation when we get back to basically stop that. I don’t think it’s lawful in the first place because the Obamacare provision at issue is pretty clear that we’re supposed to be in the exchanges like everybody else.”
DeSantis also takes issue with the subsidy decision that was made administratively, by the federal Office of Personnel Management. He said if subsidies are to be given, Congress should pass a law creating them.
But, DeSantis added, “They knew they wouldn’t be able to get away with it. So they had the bureaucracy issue this administrative rule. Guess what’s happening. That means members of Congress aren’t going to have to go on record to say whether they support this or not.
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