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From the Wall Street Journal:
- Buyers' Remorse
Some of us tried to sound the alarm, but we were ignored: Labor union officials say Obama betrayed them in health-care rollout Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this...
- "as Many As 52 Million Americans Could Lose Or Have Lost Old Insurance Plans”
The McClatchy Newspaper group (not exactly a right wing center of political thought):Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that...
- Obamacare Train Derails At Sea World, Trader Joe’s, And Afl-cio
They hate me cuz I'm black. They hate me because of my Muslim, I mean, Christian faithI'll make them pay for this(Orlando Sentinel) SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. is reducing hours for thousands of part-time workers, a move that would allow...
- 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...
- Obamakare And Family-insurance Plans
Much ado was made of Obama's warning health-insurance companies not to raise costs. And I personally know of several people who supported ObamaKare because they believed that ObamaKare would help them to keep their children on the family's health-insurance...
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Some Unions Grow Wary of Health Law They Backed, Want Government Subsidies To Pay Their Insurance Plans
From the Wall Street Journal:
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.
Some 20 million Americans are covered by the health-care plans at issue in labor's push for subsidies. The plans are jointly managed by unions and employers and used mostly by small companies. They are popular in industries such as construction or trucking or hotels, where workers' hours fluctuate. By contrast, unionized workers at big employers such as Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. tend to have a more traditional insurance arrangement run through only one employer.What do you want to bet they get all they ask for?
- Buyers' Remorse
Some of us tried to sound the alarm, but we were ignored: Labor union officials say Obama betrayed them in health-care rollout Labor leaders who have spent months lobbying unsuccessfully for special protections under the Affordable Care Act warned this...
- "as Many As 52 Million Americans Could Lose Or Have Lost Old Insurance Plans”
The McClatchy Newspaper group (not exactly a right wing center of political thought):Even as President Barack Obama sold a new health care law in part by assuring Americans they would be able to keep their insurance plans, his administration knew that...
- Obamacare Train Derails At Sea World, Trader Joe’s, And Afl-cio
They hate me cuz I'm black. They hate me because of my Muslim, I mean, Christian faithI'll make them pay for this(Orlando Sentinel) SeaWorld Entertainment Inc. is reducing hours for thousands of part-time workers, a move that would allow...
- 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...
- Obamakare And Family-insurance Plans
Much ado was made of Obama's warning health-insurance companies not to raise costs. And I personally know of several people who supported ObamaKare because they believed that ObamaKare would help them to keep their children on the family's health-insurance...