Pay-to-Play Politics, the SEIU and Obamacare

American Thinker ^ | January 06, 2009 | David Catron

[Eva]

...What does this have to do with national health care policy? Well, Mr. Obama achieved his November victory with more than a little help from such "friends." These benefactors paid a lot to put him in the White House, and they weren't all motivated by a desire "make history." Among the most generous of Obama's supporters was another entity that has figured prominently in the Illinois culture of corruption -- the Service Employees International Union. According to CNSNews, the SEIU's political action committee made "more than $27 million in independent expenditures" in support of Obama's presidential campaign while its members "knocked on 1.87 million doors, made 4.4 million phone calls, registered 85,914 voters and sent more than 2.5 million pieces of mail."

In return for all this largesse, the SEIU wants help in unionizing the health care industry. And a clear sign that Obama intends to provide that assistance can be found in his nomination of California Representative Hilda Solis, the hand-picked candidate of SEIU President Andy Stern, for U.S. Secretary of Labor. Solis made her priorities clear during the press conference at which her nomination was announced: "As secretary of Labor, I'll work to strengthen our unions ..." And a key strategy in "strengthening" unions will be an aggressive program to organize health care workers. Indeed, she has a track record of doing just that. As it was phrased in the gleeful news release from SEIU United Healthcare Workers-West, "She has stood alongside healthcare workers as they fought to form unions in their hospitals."

[Eva]

This is an oldy but goody that bears a new reading with a new perspective on Obama, the SEIU and Obamacare.

The media has chosen to focus this strike on the teachers' union, but the real conflict of interest is with the SEIU Hospital Workers and Nurses because Obama depends on them as much as we do.

If we are going to stop Obama and his take over of 1/5 of the economy in the form of the health care industry, we are going to have to rein in the SEIU.

My guess is that those doctors who were handing out the phony doctor's notes to the strikers were part of the SEIU - SEIU 1199

[FrankR]

[Eva]

Good one.

[Baynative]

"...the SEIU wants help in unionizing the health care industry."

So, why have they asked for [and received] an exemption?

[Baynative]

"...the SEIU wants help in unionizing the health care industry."

So, why have they asked for [and received] an exemption?

[baddog 219]

[maine-iac7]

Someone needs to ask ‘bummer if he brought his “purple windbreaker” to Washington

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQj-xBH30-I

Your (SEIU) agenda is MY agenda

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQ1NJaCtIkM

He is now looking at the possibility of loosing his life's work, his life's goal. They won’t go down quietly, Just pray there isn't a “Wag the Dog” moment -

[Eva]

Yes, the SEIU has asked for and been granted exemptions from the very health care program that they want to force on the rest of us, but not until it is fully funded with our mandated tax dollars. In Wisconsin, the union is SEIU 1199. This is the link to the SEIU 1199 in WA state.

[Eva]

By the way, the teachers in Wisconsin are self insured, meaning that the tax payers pay the union for the teachers’ health insurance at three times the rate of other private insurance. The WEA (Wisconsin) is also an insurance company.

We also have our own version of WEA insurance in Washington state. Purchasing health insurance from the WEA (WA) was one of the demands of the Ferndale strike.