{"id":23252,"date":"2024-08-22T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23252"},"modified":"2024-08-22T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T12:17:03","slug":"how-congress-gets-their-health-insurance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=23252","title":{"rendered":"How Congress gets their health insurance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>(By Rylee Wilson for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Members of Congress are tasked with making decisions about the future of the ACA exchange \u2014 and they also receive their healthcare benefits through it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An ACA provision requires members of Congress and their staff to receive their insurance through DC Health Link, the exchange market in Washington, D.C. Before 2014, lawmakers and their staff were included in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program.  Continue reading <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/how-congress-gets-their-health-insurance.html\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.beckerspayer.com\/payer\/how-congress-gets-their-health-insurance.html\">here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"wp-image-8962\" style=\"width: 150px;\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525.jpg 700w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/file000273509242Washington-Congress-Capitol-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\"><strong>Notice:<\/strong>\u00a0The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Rylee Wilson for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) Members of Congress are tasked with making decisions about the future of the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,42,200],"tags":[97,105,447,166],"class_list":["post-23252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-affordable-care-act-aca","category-employer-healthcare","category-health-insurance","tag-aca","tag-congress","tag-employer-insurance","tag-health-insurance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23252"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23253,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23252\/revisions\/23253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}