Trump should end Obama’s bailout of Congress’s health care

The usual liberal media suspects and Obamacare defenders reacted by flaunting their ignorance (real or feigned—I can never tell) of any such bailout existing. But the bailout at taxpayer expense for members of Congress is very real, worth about $12,000 per year to senators and House members who avail themselves of it, and utterly indefensible legally or politically.

When Congress was debating Obamacare, one of the persistent demands from the American people was that if Congress was redesigning health care systems for millions of others, they should subject themselves and their staff to their own handiwork. The demands worked, and before Obamacare passed the Senate in 2009, a provision was added, Section 1312(d)(3)(D), that requires members of Congress and their staff to buy health insurance through Obamacare exchanges.