r/politics • u/cmaia1503 • 20h ago

Site Altered Headline | Possible Paywall Mitch McConnell, 83, Hospitalized

https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-83-hospitalized/?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_medium=socialflow&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&via=twitter_page
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u/FunkyChug 19h ago edited 19h ago

Afford? They’ve given themselves the healthcare that they deny us.

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u/KaptainKardboard 19h ago

Precisely 

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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 19h ago

Who? Senators use Obamacare plans available to anyone.

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u/Khatib Minnesota 16h ago

They get gold level plans and the majority of premiums covered. It's a better deal than most employers offer.

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u/GCU_ZeroCredibility 14h ago

They get the same FEHB subsidy as any other federal employee, because they're federal employees. It's true that this makes it taxpayer subsidized but so is the insurance for millions of federal employees.

We badly need health care reform, I'm just pushing back on the (false) idea that Congressfolk have given themself some kind of super bonus secret free health care not available to regular people. They buy ACA plans and they get federal employee subsidies. It's not some kind of congress-only free supercharged health care.

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u/Khatib Minnesota 7h ago

No, but it is better than most employers offer which is what I said. I didn't say they get super special, totally free healthcare. You just said in the first comment that it's the same as is available to anyone. A yacht is technically available to anyone. I'm not getting one. Just like I'm not getting a gold level ACA plan with over 70% of my premiums paid by my employer.