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Health Care Union Drops Coverage For Children

aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
edited December 2010 in A Moving Train
"this is an extraordinary thing to hear from the lips of one of the major advocates for national health care, and for generally higher spending on government health care. They're basically saying that the new law has made benefits more expensive, and that this is contributing to people cutting coverage--exactly the argument that opponents were derided for making during the debate. It's like seeing Bill Bennett take to the pages of High Times with an op-ed on the costs of marijuana prohibition."





http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/11/health-care-union-drops-coverage-for-children/67248/
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    aerial wrote:
    "this is an extraordinary thing to hear from the lips of one of the major advocates for national health care, and for generally higher spending on government health care. They're basically saying that the new law has made benefits more expensive, and that this is contributing to people cutting coverage--exactly the argument that opponents were derided for making during the debate. It's like seeing Bill Bennett take to the pages of High Times with an op-ed on the costs of marijuana prohibition."





    http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2010/11/health-care-union-drops-coverage-for-children/67248/
    ...
    Did you get the gist of the stroy? I would expect that you, of all people, would be pleased by all of this.
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    You must be joking!
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    aerial wrote:
    You must be joking!
    ...
    Joking? No.
    Weren't you one of those all up in arms about the Arizona Voting machines putting in Harry Reid's name? Remember how it was all supposed to be tied to the SEIU... the machine technicians union being part of SEIU?
    And what about the part where the SEIU vigorously backed and lobbied for the passage of the Health Care Reform bill? I figured that you would see this as the irony that it is.
    What... have you turned into a liberal socialist union backer since the November elections?
    Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
    Hail, Hail!!!
  • aerialaerial Posts: 2,319
    Cosmo wrote:
    aerial wrote:
    You must be joking!
    ...
    Joking? No.
    Weren't you one of those all up in arms about the Arizona Voting machines putting in Harry Reid's name? Remember how it was all supposed to be tied to the SEIU... the machine technicians union being part of SEIU?
    And what about the part where the SEIU vigorously backed and lobbied for the passage of the Health Care Reform bill? I figured that you would see this as the irony that it is.
    What... have you turned into a liberal socialist union backer since the November elections?

    SEIU spent around 60 million backing that bill.....that money would have been better spent on there Union members....But I never said take away the peoples insurance! In fact didn't Obama say if you like your insurance you can keep it....
    “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.” Abraham Lincoln
  • Electric_DeltaElectric_Delta Posts: 977
    Regardless of how tied to the Health Care Bill this is or not, you can expect an absolute wave of companies dropping coverage for their employees.

    Obama did say you can keep your plan, but it's obvious that nobody will. The rising costs will force us all on the government dole.

    I can't wait.
    Bristow, VA (5/13/10)
  • whygohomewhygohome Posts: 2,305
    This is grotesque. All this is is the higher-ups in these companies being greedy. Greed is the problem (and stupidity; and laziness; and a false sense of entitlement). The continuing trend of the haves having more and the privileged becoming more privileged is going to be the death nail for this country.

    This is simple to me. Wal-Mart, a multibillion dollar company still does not give health insurance to all of their employees; in fact, only 54% of Wal-Mart employees receive health insurance - that's 700,000 without it. Grotesque.

    Greed, greed, greed.

    "More workers taking Wal-Mart health insurance," Associated Press, 2/17/2010.
    http://www.wakeupwalmart.com/facts/healthcare.html
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