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  • Retired city workers file lawsuit over shift to Obamacare (Chicago)

    07/25/2013 3:21:21 PM PDT · by Olog-hai · 20 replies
    WFLD, Fox 32, Chicago ^ | Wednesday, July 24, 2013 10:19 PM EST | Mike Flannery
    Retired city workers are asking a judge to block Mayor Emanuel from making them rely on Obamacare for their health insurance. It could cost Chicago taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. This affects most city retirees and it underscores how, after decades of grotesque financial mismanagement, the only choices left are painful ones. A spokesman for the lawsuit was a retired cop, wounded several times in the line of duty. Public employee unions hope that angry taxpayers staring at a doubling or even tripling of City Hall’s property tax will empathize with Mike Underwood. … When Mayor Emanuel sent letters...