Harry Reid accepts taxpayer subsidy to enroll in Obamacare

 Just two days ago Kathleen Sebelius finally admitted that some people were going to have to pay higher premiums under Obamacare in order to help subsidize other people.

  Naturally you would think that the people who would receive the subsidies would be lower income families who need help in order to conform with the law which mandates they buy insurance the cannot afford and you would be right. The law allows for a family of four who earn less than $94,200 the opportunity to get a subsidy, but they are not the only ones who are eligible for taxpayer subsidies–so is the Congress, even though they earn much, much more than the $94,200 threshold.

  On the same day that Kathleen Sebelius confessed about Obamacare we also learned that Marco Rubio received a $10,000 subsidy when he purchased a healthcare plan through the Washington DC exchange, and we are now learning in this article that Harry Reid is also accepting a subsidy which could total up to $11,000.

    Marco Rubio earns nearly $174,000 as a Senator and Harry Reid’s salary is roughly $200,000 as Senate Majority Leader. Somebody needs to explain to this poor simpleton how a family of four which grosses $94,000 is too rich to get government assistance to purchase healthcare while our elected officials, who earn roughly double that amount, are poor enough for government assistance.

  It is interesting to note here that people earning half of what our elected officials make are forced to pay more in premiums to help the ruling class pay for their insurance. It is not enough that these people have to pay full price for their insurance, they face the indignity of having to help pay for the insurance of the people who foisted this law upon them.

  Harry Reid defended his subsidy along the same line as did Marco Rubio:

“I’m just like 150 million other people in America,” Reid said. “My employer helps me pay for my health care.” 

  Any establishment, political ruling class elitist comparing himself to the hard working men and women of the United States is an insult to the working class.

  The establishment ruling class wrote a law and provided themselves with benefits which they did not make available to the very people who pay their salaries and then they have the balls to claim they are simply taking an employer benefit which they gave themselves without the input of their actual employers–which are the American people in case they have forgotten.

  John Edwards was right all those years ago when he claimed there were two Americas, he was just wrong about the classes. What it boils down to is this, there really are only two classes in America today; the ruling class elite and those whom they rule.