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Some of us tried to sound the alarm, but we were ignored:
- Afl-cio To Issue Formal Condemnation Of Obamacare
Urkel Wants You To Bend Over Union members are upset that Obamacare regulations will prevent them from keeping their cadillac plans.The AFL-CIO Executive Council is expected to consider a resolution, subject to fierce internal debate, that will call...
- When A Guy Named James Hoffa Turns Against You. . .
WSJ: Union Letter: Obamacare Will ‘Destroy The Very Health and Wellbeing’ of Workers The roll out of President Obama’s health care reform package was always going to be tricky, with vehement opposition from his political opponents and pushback from...
- Then Why Do They Call It Insurance?
NYT:A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care LawIn another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to...
- Irs Employee Union: We Don’t Want Obamacare
IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law. National Treasury Employees Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President...
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Family feud: Nancy Pelosi at odds with President ObamaFrom Politico: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what...
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Buyers' Remorse
Some of us tried to sound the alarm, but we were ignored:
Labor union officials say Obama betrayed them in health-care rolloutRead the rest HERE.
Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this week that the White House’s continued refusal to help is dampening union support for Democratic candidates in this year’s midterm elections.
Leaders of two major unions, including the first to endorse Obama in 2008, said they have been betrayed by an administration that wooed their support for the 2009 legislation with promises to later address the peculiar needs of union-negotiated insurance plans that cover millions of workers.
Their complaints reflect a broad sense of disappointment among many labor leaders, who say the Affordable Care Act has subjected union health plans to new taxes and mandates while not allowing them to share in the subsidies that have gone to private insurance companies competing on the newly created exchanges.
After dozens of frustrating meetings with White House officials over the past year, including one with Obama, a number of angry labor officials say their members are far less likely to campaign and turn out for Democratic candidates in the midterm elections....
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Taylor said Unite Here officials have met with White House officials 48 times. At the time the health-care bill was being considered, he said, “we were told that ‘if there were problems, don’t worry, we’ll get them fixed.’ ”
“We thought that if we made the case to the agencies dealing with regulations to correct problems that hurt, really destroy, self-funded nonprofit health plans, it would be resolved,” Taylor said. “That clearly was naive or stupid.”
- Afl-cio To Issue Formal Condemnation Of Obamacare
Urkel Wants You To Bend Over Union members are upset that Obamacare regulations will prevent them from keeping their cadillac plans.The AFL-CIO Executive Council is expected to consider a resolution, subject to fierce internal debate, that will call...
- When A Guy Named James Hoffa Turns Against You. . .
WSJ: Union Letter: Obamacare Will ‘Destroy The Very Health and Wellbeing’ of Workers The roll out of President Obama’s health care reform package was always going to be tricky, with vehement opposition from his political opponents and pushback from...
- Then Why Do They Call It Insurance?
NYT:A Limit on Consumer Costs Is Delayed in Health Care LawIn another setback for President Obama’s health care initiative, the administration has delayed until 2015 a significant consumer protection in the law that limits how much people may have to...
- Irs Employee Union: We Don’t Want Obamacare
IRS employees have a prominent role in Obamacare, but their union wants no part of the law. National Treasury Employees Union officials are urging members to write their congressional representatives in opposition to receiving coverage through President...
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Family feud: Nancy Pelosi at odds with President ObamaFrom Politico: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s increasingly public disagreements with President Barack Obama are a reflection of something deeper: the seething resentment some Democrats feel over what...