posted at 9:47 pm on April 12, 2010 by Allahpundit printer-friendly NYT: ObamaCare will probably have accidentally stripped Congress of wellness protection The perfect ending to every day that noticed help for repealing O-Care reach a fresh great in Rasmussen (58 %) and assistance for that A person get to a new weekly very low in Gallup (47 %). Turns out that fantastically lengthy,
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I’d call it comedy gold if not for that obvious point raised by the Times: “If they did not know exactly what they were doing to themselves, did lawmakers who wrote and passed the bill fully grasp the details of how it would influence the lives of other Americans?”
The law apparently bars members of Congress from the federal employees wellness program, on the assumption that lawmakers should join many of their constituents in getting protection through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.
But the research service found that this provision was written in an imprecise, confusing way, so it is not clear when it takes effect.
The new exchanges do not have to be in operation until 2014. But because of a possible “drafting error,
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Under well-established canons of statutory interpretation, the report said,
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In other words, theoretically the law kicks them out of the federal health and wellbeing plan now in order to force them to join insurance exchanges … that don’t exist yet. Looking forward to tomorrow, when we’re inevitably told that they meant to do that. Exit question for lawyers: Who would have standing to sue to force the federal wellbeing plan to drop Congress now? Any citizen, or is it more refined than that?