Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
Here’s the thing about reality: It bites.
Labor unions enthusiastically backed the Obama administration’s health-care overhaul when it was up for debate. Now that the law is rolling out, some are turning sour.
Union leaders say many of the law’s requirements will drive up the costs for their health-care plans and make unionized workers less competitive. Among other things, the law eliminates the caps on medical benefits and prescription drugs used as cost-containment measures in many health-care plans. It also allows children to stay on their parents’ plans until they turn 26.
To offset that, the nation’s largest labor groups want their lower-paid members to be able to get federal insurance subsidies while remaining on their plans. In the law, these subsidies were designed only for low-income workers without employer coverage as a way to help them buy private insurance.
In early talks, the Obama administration dismissed the idea of applying the subsidies to people in union-sponsored plans, according to officials from the trade group, the National Coordinating Committee for Multiemployer Plans, that represents these insurance plans. Contacted for this article, Obama administration officials said the issue is subject to regulations still being written.
I don’t know about anyone else, but I would love to be a fly on the wall the next time labor leaders get together for a meeting with Nancy Pelosi.
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Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
The unions should be allowed to twist slowly in the wind.
Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
Schadenfreude is a very underrated emotion.
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Pejman Yousefzadeh: Schadenfreude is a very underrated emotion. · 37 minutes ago
And poetic justice is a very underrated species of justice.
Mar '11
Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
This thing is such an unbelievable mess.
Jun '10
Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
Tosh. The meeting will go something like this:
"Look what you've you done to us!"
"What do you need?"
"This, this and this.
"Done."
Thanks. See you next time we're all in the Bahamas.
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"Today, we announce the Working Family Protection revisions to the Affordable Care Act..."
Edited on February 2, 2013 at 12:40amDec '12
Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
Thanks John Roberts.
Dec '10
Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
All this trouble because John Roberts wanted an invitation to be one of the cool kids.
May '12
Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
I love it! But... what will even be better is when some of the blue states start kicking their public employees into the exchanges to save money.
Jul '10
Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
Maggot Roberts found in himself a power denied him by the Constitution to save ObamaCare, the power to initiate and legislate a federal tax. What was the threat that forced him into such a ham handed and ill-authored decision? A skeleton in his closet? The life of a family member? An interview by Chris Matthews?
Jan '13
Re: Unions Hate the Very Health Care Reforms They Advocated
This was all meant to be, and, if they didn't see it coming, they are as stupid (and greedy) as Big Pharma and the Ins. industry. A pox on their house too now. Cry me a river.
Rahm Emanuel intends to dump his city works into the Federal exchanges btw.....just deserts for all...
Edited on February 3, 2013 at 8:00pm