U.S. lawmakers will not be able to enjoy special government insurance benefits

Tobacco According to the “Tobacco” report compiled according to “The New York Times” reporter Robert Pell (Robert Pear) reported that U.S. President Barack Obama on health care law to make the new official explanation, the Congress will be older and smoking Members will be solely responsible for their higher health insurance costs.

The U.S. government on August 7 that it would continue to protect the thousands of members of Congress legislators and medical benefit costs, but they must as individuals from the insurance exchange to purchase full insurance.

Including legislators, including federal workers currently mostly through the federal employee health care benefits health insurance program, the project is the largest employee health insurance program. The Government has implemented some very popular medical health plans, $ 5,000 each year for individuals to purchase health insurance, $ 11,000 for each family to purchase health insurance.

But in 2010 enacted health care bill that would require members of Congress, and the federal government’s health insurance from an exchange. The purpose of this change is to enable legislators and ordinary citizens, able to experience the law as they bring welfare and economic burden.

Federal employees in the project, in the same health care under the project members will enjoy the same amount of insurance, regardless of age and place of residence differences.

However, the sale of the insurance exchanges health care projects, each based on different age, smoking status and place of residence are different, the amount of insurance also has a corresponding difference.