article_snippet: We will presumably go on the exchange and sign up for health care
article_snippet: The exchanges, created by the Obamacare law, are designed to be state-specific insurance marketplaces where the uninsured can find coverage.
article_snippet: Using the uninsured is mandatory for middle-income Americans who want to receive federal government subsidies to help pay the uninsured premiums.
article_snippet: The Affordable Care Act originally left members of Congress alone, but Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley famously inserted a 'poison pill' amendment requiring members of Congress – and members of Congress staff members – to participate like other Americans if members of Congress lacked insurance from other sources. '
article_snippet: The Affordable Care Act, by design, helps Americans who have gaps in employment get coverage, and it's working,' DNC National Press Secretary Holly Shulman told Daily Mail Online. '
article_snippet: The Washington, D.C. city government extends congressional offices a sweetheart deal that's not part of the Affordable Care Act itself, allowing federal lawmakers and congressional offices aides to enroll through the city's Small Business Health Options Program.
article_snippet: The United States Congress also makes medical insurance customers eligible for payments from medical insurance customers employers for most of the premiums.
article_snippet: The Obama administration's Office of Personnel Management made the arrangement legal by quietly issuing a rule just before the Obamacare law took effect – and setting the typical reimbursement level at 75 per cent.
article_snippet: Some customers, including well-paid senators, will get that benefit even though Some customers, including well-paid senators income levels would be too high to qualify for subsidies if Some customers, including well-paid senators had to buy coverage on the open exchanges like millions of others.
highlights_snippet: Law forces members of Congress who need coverage to buy it through government-run marketplaces .
  