So Republicans have rolled out Republicare V2 and in it they are removing ACA provisions that prevent pricing discrimination for pre-existing conditions. It looks like they secretly do like the provisions because they put in an exemption to keep it
for members of Congress and staff only.
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House Republicans appear to have included a provision that exempts Members of Congress and their staff from their latest health care plan.
The new Republican amendment, introduced Tuesday night, would allow states to waive out of Obamacare’s ban on pre-existing conditions. This means that insurers could once again, under certain circumstances, charge sick people higher premiums than healthy people.
Republican legislators liked this policy well enough to offer it in a new amendment. They do not, however, seem to like it enough to have it apply to themselves and their staff. A spokesperson for Rep. Tom MacArthur (R-N.J.) who authored this amendment confirmed this was the case: members of Congress and their staff would get the guarantee of keeping these Obamacare regulations. Health law expert Tim Jost flagged me to this particular issue
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https://www.vox.com/2017/4/25/154299...ahca-amendment
So explain to me why this is okay Trump/GOP supporters like TFF and the like.
Meanwhile Spicer is now claiming it is not the responsibility of the White House to vet the people they hire into crucial roles. He say's Trump has not responsibility to find out if Russia paid Flynn or not. If Trump is not ultimately responsible for finding out the trustworthiness of the person he appoints to National Security positions, what is Trump's responsibility then?
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The White House sought to distance itself from the investigation into former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn's dealings with Russia after the House Oversight Committee announced Tuesday Flynn had accepted payments from Russian organizations, which is against the law.
"You fill out the forms, you do an investigation, you do a background check. Every employee gets that background check done, and they have a security clearance and they fill it out and that's how everyone operates under the same guise," Spicer said, under repeated questioning.
"You rely on that person when they sign their name and then investigators to pick it up," he said, explaining why the White House had not caught Flynn's engagements with Russia. "But there's always going to be, in the case of people who had a prior clearance in the case of the time that they filled it out and had it adjudicated, they could have engaged in something and whether they updated that or not."
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https://www.usnews.com/news/politics...n-in-2015-2016