Health-Care Catch: Unions and Congress are Exempt

Just when you thought cronyism couldn’t stoop any lower, Congress sticks a clause into the health-care bill that will allow unions and their members to remain tax exempt from the proposed public Obamacare legislation.  And who would have thunk it?  Unions are majority Democrat…

To add insult to injury Congress, with their lovely perks, and inside the beltway lifestyle, would obviously keep their benefits and would not be required to participate in the plan.  If Congress, the very people who are proposing this rubbish, are unwilling to use it themselves, that should set off alarms for every American.

Union workers enjoy some of the most extensive and costliest health benefits, and union officials complained their members would be unfairly burdened by a health care tax because their contracts cannot be changed quickly enough to avoid it.

Union members also represent one of the biggest and most powerful Democratic constituencies and their support of any health care reform proposal is viewed as essential to getting a bill passed in Congress.

Baucus has proposed the tax threshold on health care benefits be set higher than the cost of policies available to federal employees and he has proposed exempting until 2013 those plans negotiated as part of union contracts.

Isn’t there some type of law that states all men and women are created equal?  Doesn’t singling out one or two groups go against that entirely?

If Obamacare is passed, this will be used as a backdoor method for Card Check because more will be enticed to join unions, where they still have a choice of their own health-care - ”mark my words!”

Oh, and next time I hear somebody bring up crony capitalism, I’ll be sure to wave several examples of “crony Capitol Hillism” in their face to make my point that corruption and greed go hand in hand and it’s no different whether you are in DC or NYC.

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