In what can only be defined as Congress thumbing its collective nose at the American public, they've taken one more step of complete arrogance.

Call it the "loophole law."

Congress has provided itself with a loophole in health care that will enable exclusion not only of itself from the law it has imposed on the rest of us, but their staff as well.

Should anybody lie to you and tell you it's not true, here it is in black and white.

SEC. 1312. CONSUMER CHOICE.
(a) CHOICE.—

(3) VOLUNTARY NATURE OF AN EXCHANGE.—

(D) MEMBERS OF CONGRESS IN THE EXCHANGE.—
(i) REQUIREMENT.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, after the effective date of this subtitle,
the only health plans that the Federal Government
may make available to Members of Congress and
congressional staff with respect to their service as a
Member of Congress or congressional staff shall be
health plans that are—
(I) created under this Act (or an amendment
made by this Act); or
(II) offered through an Exchange established
under this Act (or an amendment made by this
Act).
(ii) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(I) MEMBER OF CONGRESS.—The term ‘‘Member
of Congress’’ means any member of the House
of Representatives or the Senate.
(II) CONGRESSIONAL STAFF.—The term
‘‘congressional staff’’ means all full-time and parttime
employees employed by the official office of
a Member of Congress, whether in Washington,
DC or outside of Washington, DC.

This little "loophole" provides the ability for Congress to amend anything they want for themselves into the law and ties their staff in as well.

Oh, and when Debbie Wasserman Schultz told her town hall audience that there was "no requirement to puchase health care coverage,"  SHE LIED.

She referred to those who don't purchase insurance as being under a different tax stauts.

It's complete and utter bullshit.

Nothing more than CONGRESSIONAL DOUBLE SPEAK.

Shades of George Orwell's 1984.

She knows what's in the law.  At 2700 pages, Congress thinks you're too stupid to look it up.  All they did was to shift enforcement of the "non-existant requirement" to the IRS.

‘‘SEC. 5000A. REQUIREMENT TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM ESSENTIAL COVERAGE.
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM ESSENTIAL COVERAGE.—
An applicable individual shall for each month beginning
after 2013 ensure that the individual, and any dependent of the
individual who is an applicable individual, is covered under minimum
essential coverage for such month.
‘‘(b) SHARED RESPONSIBILITY PAYMENT.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—If an applicable individual fails to meet
the requirement of subsection (a) for 1 or more months during
any calendar year beginning after 2013, then, except as provided
in subsection (d), there is hereby imposed a penalty
with respect to the individual in the amount determined under
subsection (c).
‘‘(2) INCLUSION WITH RETURN.—Any penalty imposed by
this section with respect to any month shall be included with
a taxpayer’s return under chapter 1 for the taxable year which
includes such month.
‘‘(3) PAYMENT OF PENALTY.—If an individual with respect
to whom a penalty is imposed by this section for any month—
‘‘(A) is a dependent (as defined in section 152) of
another taxpayer for the other taxpayer’s taxable year
including such month, such other taxpayer shall be liable
for such penalty, or
‘‘(B) files a joint return for the taxable year including
such month, such individual and the spouse of such individual
shall be jointly liable for such penalty.

Section 5000 defines itself as "REQUIREMENT TO MAINTAIN MINIMUM ESSENTIAL COVERAGE."

Folks, thes are the same DOUBLE SPEAK experts that insisted there were no "death panels" in the original law they tried to shove down our throats last July.

Let me remind you of what was on page 58.

5 ‘‘(D) enable the real-time (or near real-
6 time) determination of an individual’s financial
7 responsibility at the point of service and, to the
8 extent possible, prior to service, including
9 whether the individual is eligible for a specific
10 service with a specific physician at a specific fa-
11 cility,which may include utilization of a ma-
12 chine-readable health plan beneficiary identi-
13 fication card;

Time to restore this country to the ideals of Jefferson and Adams...