The Congress declares itself a small business (and lies about its number of employees) in order to qualify for Obamacare subsidies

  I have written many times in the past about how the Republicans and the Democrats are really on the same side–the establishment side–and about how they put on a show for the American people using the Hegelian Dialectic of thesis/anti-thesis/synthesis to make it appear as if we have a real choice in the elections. The dialectic goes something like this: create or take advantage of a crisis, create the opposition to the crisis in order to control both sides, and then use the controlled chaos as the two sides battle to implement the predetermined solution.

  A perfect example of this is Obamacare: the Republicans love to run campaigns based on the promise of repealing Obamacare but when they had the chance to defund the healthcare program what did they do? The Republican controlled House can cut off the funding any time it wants to and yet the program remains funded, why is that? 

  In my opinion, which I have stated before, it has always been simple: the Republican establishment is not really interested in repealing Obamacare because they find it to be a winning campaign issue. They have made the political calculation that they can win elections on the promise of repealing Obamacare and they are going to continue to do so until it is no longer a winning issue. If they were actually to defund the program they would lose a campaign issue and they would rather make it look as if they are trying to repeal Obamacare and failing than they are in actually defunding it and making good on a promise. 

    However there may be more to it than that, and it might actually be even more insidious, because according to this story, both the House and the Senate declared the Congress was a small business in order to qualify for Obamacare subsidies using the District of Columbia Small Business Exchange.

  As ludicrous as it is that Congress can declare itself a small business in order to take advantage of a policy it created it gets even worse because the DC Small Business Exchange only allows businesses with fewer than 50 employees to join and we all know both the House and the Senate have more than 50 employees. So how did the Congress qualify even if we grant it the premise that it is a small business? Simple, they lied about the number of people employed by the Federal government in Washington DC.

  Here is more:

Both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives certified that they had only 45 employees each in order to sign up for the District of Columbia’s Small Business Exchange. But 12,359 – or 86 percent of the exchange’s enrollees – are members of Congress, congressional staff members, and their spouses and dependents, according to an appeal filed with the D.C. Court of Appeals by Judicial Watch.

The public interest law firm announced Monday that it is appealing the February dismissal of its lawsuit challenging congressional participation in the Obamacare exchange even though the D.C. Exchange Act limits enrollment to small companies with 50 or fewer employees.

“Congress obviously has far more than 50 employees,” Judicial Watch attorney Michael Bekesha pointed out in his opening brief. “It has thousands of employees.”

Congress enrolled in the small business exchange when its previous coverage under the Federal Employee Health Benefits plan was terminated by the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and congressional employees stood to lose thousands of dollars in “employer contributions” if they enrolled in the District’s individual exchange.

According to documents obtained by Judicial Watch through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives both certified that they “employ 50 or fewer full time equivalent employees.”

  So both the House and the Senate claimed they only had 45 employees each, and if my math is correct that is a total of 90 employees, and yet over 12,000 people employed by the Federal government managed to enroll in Obamacare and this has already been dismissed by the courts once? The fix is obviously in and anyone who listens to the Republicans when they promise to repeal Obamacare is being played for a fool and honestly if you read this story and still think there is a chance for Obamacare to be repealed than you are a fool. Stop listening to what the politicians say and start paying attention to what they do.

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