Obamacare hurts many but Congress gets reprieve

By Timothy P. Carney

Published October 1, 2013 4:00am ET

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Obamacare hurts many but Congress gets reprieve — Children from the Head Start program join supporters and members of Congress to call for an end to the partial federal government shutdown and fund the comprehensive education, health and nutrition service for low-income children, outside Capitol on Wednesday. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) | Chip Somodevilla

President Obama is illegally modifying his health care law to protect Congress from its effects, and he’s willing keep government shut down to do it.

The fight over forcing congressmen and their staffs into Obamacare’s insurance exchanges has been clouded by misleading Republican rhetoric and slippery Democratic legal arguments, but it boils down to this: Obamacare harms many groups of people, but the politically connected get to escape the law’s effects.

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Affordable Care Act Barack Obama Chuck Grassley Congress Democratic Party Harry Reid John Boehner Max Baucus OPM Republican Party Timothy P. Carney Tom Coburn