"I'm not smart enough to choose my own healthcare, but I want to choose yours"
/That’s a comment made in response to the B.U. economist/barista Ocasio Cortez’s whine that Congress’s subsidized Obamacare program, with 66 options, is too complicated for her to understand.
Ordinary people are allowed three levels of insurance under Obamacare, subsidies stop at $100,000, and all premiums are paid from pre-tax earnings. Not so the privileged:
Members of Congress get to choose one of those 66 gold-level plans and receive subsidies for 72% of the cost of the premiums. And the 28% they do have to pay comes out of pre-tax payroll deductions. But that's not all! They can get free care through the Office of the Attending Physician and free outpatient care at military hospitals in Washington D.C., too.
This is the "terrible" healthcare that AOC is complaining about. While Congress was shielded from the bank account-emptying scheme that Obamacare is, anyone who has had to buy into it without help from the government knows the truth. It was designed to fail. It was designed to push us into socialized medicine.