June 25, 2009 12:01 PM
Obamacare exempts unions and Congress
While we're trying to raise our kids and enjoy the summer, Congress is ramming through a radical agenda which will have deep repercussions for our families for years to come.
Please take the time to contact your Senators and Representatives to let them know that if they help pass this disastrous plan - which will rob us of our freedom to choose our doctors, discourage young people from entering the medical profession and devolve our current health care system (which they keep calling "broken") into something as inefficient and unresponsive as other government bureaucracies - we will remember at the voting booth in 2010.
Thank God for people who are taking the time to read through this monstrous 1200+ page bill to alert us what is being slipped under our noses:
Beware Obamacare's Fine Print
Congress's Health Care Double Standard
Wall Street Journal, June 24, 2009In a desperate scramble to pay for the soaring costs of President Obama's health care plan, the Senate Finance Committee is contemplating taxing for the first time the health insurance benefits workers get from their employers. One approach would tax the benefits only of workers earning over $100,000. An alternate proposal would tax the value of health care benefits that exceed a cap.
But the taxes wouldn't be applied equally. Union members serving under collective bargaining agreements would be exempt, even though they often have the richest and most extensive packages of benefits. Union officials have told Democratic leaders of Congress that because collective bargaining agreements can last several years, they should be exempt from any tax because contracts can't be changed quickly enough to avoid it.
The real reason, of course, is that unions have political clout and are exercising it. The exemption is "a means of making sure that unions are foursquare behind any reform bill that comes out," Henry Aaron, a Brookings Institution scholar, told the Washington Examiner.
There's a reason the Obama health care plan is being rushed through Congress this summer -- because the American people would likely never support it if given time to absorb and understand such fine print. If the union carve-out isn't sufficient to excite public anger, wait till you hear about the version of the Obama plan prepared by Senator Edward Kennedy, which would specifically exempt Members of Congress from many of its provisions. (my emphasis).
Read entire article here.
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Comments
It's past time for this country to 'JUST SAY NO to YOU, OBAMA' ...because it's NOT YOUR country to 'CHANGE' It's OURS!
NO NO...THIS CHOICE belongs to Americans, all of us, not you. DO WHAT IS RIGHT and put this to a vote, WE, by and large, do NOT want YOUR programs because YOU are ramrodding through more stuff than 100 years of great grandchildren will be able to 'pay for' and you have not bothered to ask US what WE want.
I DON'T WANT NATIONALIZED HEALTH CARE. WE don't want nationalized healthcare. Canadian healthcare is TERRIBLE. WHY do you persist? ARE you trying to destroy OUR America? Apparently, that is your scheme.
I don't want you dictating to me what will or won't be, for America's future, or mine, or my descendents.
NO, WE DON'T, OBAMA...WHAT PART OF THAT SENTENCE DON'T YOU COMPREHEND?
Posted by: Elizabeth Martin | June 25, 2009 2:25 PM
