Posted on 11/06/2013 11:59:49 AM PST by Brad from Tennessee
Weeks after denying labor’s request to give union members access to health-law subsidies, the Obama administration is signaling it intends to exempt some union plans from one of the law’s substantial taxes.
Buried in rules issued last week is the disclosure that the administration will propose exempting “certain self-insured, self-administered plans” from the law’s temporary reinsurance fee in 2015 and 2016.
That’s a description that applies to many Taft-Hartley union plans acting as their own insurance company and claims processor, said Edward Fensholt, a senior vice president at Lockton Cos., a large insurance broker.
Insurance companies and self-insured employers that hire outside claims administrators would still be liable for the fee, which starts at $63 per insurance plan member next year and is projected to raise $25 billion over three years.
Unions, a key Obama ally, have increasingly criticized the Affordable Care Act as threatening the generous medical plans held by many members.
Eliminating the reinsurance fee was one of several resolutions adopted at the AFL-CIO’s September convention, along with giving union plans access to ACA tax credits for lower-income members. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at kaiserhealthnews.org ...
Cronyism on display.
If that happens, then why can’t we get a class action suit going for equal rights under the law? If union people can get it, then non union people should be treated the SAME. Maybe we should all join a union...or better yet, make our own union...$2 lifetime membership dues, etc.
The 14th Amendment only applies to sexual deviants, illegal aliens, and people whose Great Great Grandparents were slaves.
Everyone else fends for themselves.
The “fix” has always been in. They knew it. They agreed to it. They paid big bucks into the DNC for it. It is reality. Get used to it. This government has been broken for a long time. Follow the money has never been more true.
Lil Barry will kowtow to his union bosses.
To me, this invalidates the “law” and makes Obamacare moot. John the Moron Roberts be damned.
Individuals should start a class action suit and run this back up the flag pole to the Supreme Court again.
If Roberts F’s us again, the next real conservative president should start his impeachment. I know the RINO’s won’t.
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