Opting Out of ObamaCare

Opting Out of ObamaCare

ObamaCare is so odious that lawmakers and aides are trying to extricate themselves from its shackles. As Politico reported [in April], “Congressional leaders in both parties are engaged in high-level, confidential talks about exempting lawmakers and Capitol Hill aides from the insurance exchanges they are mandated to join as part of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.”

Could there be a more ringing indictment of the law? Not even its authors and supporters, Democrats all, want to be under its control. And yet they expect the rest of the country to submit to a law they have found lacking.

We could call the congressional Democrats who want to exempt themselves from ObamaCare hypocrites, and while that’s an apt description, they are also realists. They see the law up close and first-hand and know that it has problems.

—Investor’s Business Daily