The following article by Alan Pyke was posted on the Think Progress website April 26, 2017:
GOP lawmakers, staff quietly exempt themselves from Trumpcare hardships
Leading Republicans have insisted their efforts to repeal Obamacare and replace it with legislation predicted to knock tens of millions of Americans off of their insurance are based in sincere policy principles, not politics.
That claim died Tuesday night, when House Republicans introduced an amendment ensuring that members of Congress and their staff would be exempt from the consequences of any health insurance law the party manages to pass. Continue reading “Trumpcare is so awful that House Republicans are building an escape hatch for themselves”