Ya don't say. Guess where else it's unpopular? Realville, USA!NYT: As President Obama barnstorms the country promoting his health care law, one audience very close to home is growing increasingly anxious about the financial implications of the new coverage: members of Congress and their personal staffs.
Under a wrinkle that dates back to enactment of the law, members of Congress and thousands of their aides are required to get their coverage through new state-based markets known as insurance exchanges.
But the law does not provide any obvious way for the federal government to continue paying its share of the premiums for the comprehensive coverage.
If the government cannot do so, it could mean an additional expense of $5,000 a year for individuals and $11,000 for families under some of the most popular plans.
Not surprisingly, that idea is unpopular on Capitol Hill.
This should offer assistance with the Lee/Cruz push to defund this beast...but don't count on it. I suspect Congress will shiftily figure out a way to sneak a provision into some other bill, perhaps the upcoming CR, relieving them and their staff of this shared responsibility. DC never practices what it preaches...it just imposes lawlessness on the rest of us.
