Letter to Barack Obama, President of the United States - Obamacare Exemptions
Letter
The Honorable Barack Obama
President
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Dear President Obama:
I am deeply opposed to recent actions by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to grant members of Congress and their staff with a special exemption from an ObamaCare provision, while your Administration and Senate Democrats neglect to provide the American people with the same relief from ObamaCare. Absent enactment of legislation to repeal, defund, or, at minimum, delay ObamaCare, I strongly urge your Administration to reverse the OPM rule.
Under ObamaCare, all members of the House and Senate, along with their aides, are required to purchase their health coverage through the law's health insurance exchange, without the federal government support that is currently granted under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Plan.
But rather than requiring Washington to live under the laws it has passed, the new OPM rule seeks to bail out members and their staff from the law's consequences. This decision demonstrates how deeply broken Washington is and it unmistakably suggests that Congress is focused more on their self-interests than the interests of the American people who must contend with the federal mandate to buy insurance, higher premiums and rising health care costs due to the law.
If members of Congress refuse to live under the laws they have passed, the American people must be exempted as well. It is absolutely unacceptable for Washington to impose new burdens and costs upon the American people, and then carve out special loopholes for itself.
As I travel throughout Montana this month, I have heard repeatedly how frustrated Montanans are with Washington and its efforts to evade being subjected to the burdens and costs that your Administration's health care law has imposed on hardworking Americans. Until this failed law is fully repealed, Washington must live by the same rules that have been forced upon the American people.
Sincerely,
STEVE DAINES
Member of Congress
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