Weird to some, yes. The Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 (CAA), one of the first pieces of legislation passed by the 104th United States Congress, applied several civil rights, labor, and workplace safety and health laws to the U.S. Congress and its associated agencies, requiring them to follow many of the same employment and workplace safety laws applied to businesses and the federal government. Previously, agencies in the legislative branch had been exempt from these laws. The act also established a dispute resolution procedure as an alternative to filing claims in federal court.
. On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 3:19 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I personally find it weird that Congressional employees would be involved > in the exchanges at all. The exchanges are designed for people who are not > generally covered by employer-sponsored insurance programs. The point of a > large individual exchange is to create a coverage pool that evens out risk. > That pool size is why employers get divided into small group and large > group plans. Congress could certainly qualify as a decent pool size and > negotiate plans with insurers accordingly. > > The fact that staff are being pushed into the exchanges has everything to > do with politics, so you are starting from a fucked up place before you > even get to Sam's bitching about a possible "exemption". Chuck Grassley > made the original amendment in 2009 to push Congressional staff into the > PPACA exchanges and away from the large group plan setup they had before. > Everything after that was attempts to deal with the fall out of that > particular political ploy without screwing over employees too badly. > > Judah > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:367382 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
