GOP Leader Wants All Federal Workers on Health Insurance Exchange

Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) is leading a GOP strategy to force Democrats to sleep in the bed they made by preventing them from exempting Congress members and their staffs from a provision that would require them to receive health insurance through the exchanges, according to a report by the Washington Post.

Rep. Camp is heading the charge to expand that requirement to all federal workers other than active-duty military members and postal workers, following an attempt last week by congressional Democrats who called for a "fix" to the mandate for federal workers to accept exchange-based coverage instead of the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. 

A spokeswoman for Rep. Camp said congressional supporters of the law should take the health insurance option, which they voted was "good enough for hardworking Americans and small businesses the law claims to help." Democrats and federal employee unions claim the law does not intend to pull employees off employer-sponsored insurance.

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