Just make them live with it

In a piece over at Town Hall, Heather Ginsburg notes that a new survey by the Congressional Management Foundation finds 90 percent of Hill staffers -- from both sides of the aisle -- are worried about negative changes to their health care benefits under Obamacare. Ginsburg notes:

Most staffers were required to enroll in the exchanges instead of staying on the federal health care plan. How is it that the people who are supposed to be best informed about the Affordable Care Act are still confused about it? Gee, maybe it was too soon to try and implement this law? And it probably doesn’t help that the President lied about what the law was and what would be allowed with Obamacare.

Conclusion: If Hill staffers can’t even be sure of what the law means and are worried about how it will affect their benefits, this isn’t working.

I arrive at a different conclusion. If the people on the Hill actually responsible for reading a bill and advising their Congressman or Senator -- i.e., staffers -- give their Congressman or Senator shitty advice, they should have to live with the consequences. It's not "too soon" to implement this law. It was always a shitty idea, and congressional staffers should have seen that. They didn't care, though, because they thought laws are for the little people. They thought Congress and its employees were going to get a pass the way they always do. So fuck 'em. It's about time they had to live with the shit they force on the rest of us.