Someone named Renee Ellmers gets health insurance through her employer and is paying a quarter of the total premium. Rob Christensen calls her a hypocrite for this because she wants to repeal ObamaCare. I’m not sure why opposing a law that consigns 16 million people to the health care hell of Medicaid should mean a person go without their own employer-sponsored insurance. If anything, her employer seems a little stingy given that the North Carolina government still pays the entire premium for its employees.
I cannot figure out where the hypocrisy is in this action even though Renee Ellmers turns out to be a member of Congress. If the argument is about pre-existing conditions, all group plans are guaranteed issue and community rated. Ellmers never said that people should purchase insurance only in the individual market, so it is not hypocritical that she doesn’t. ObamaCare busts state budgets with Medicaid rules and busts the federal budget with make-believe cuts to Medicare – cuts that, if they were actually enacted, would force more doctors out of the program.
