I’m wondering if there is any connection between the proposed health care bill and the General Motors/Chrysler buyout.
The automobile workers and retirees get full medical coverage. The cost is in the millions, maybe more. If everyone is required to get government health insurance, wouldn’t that get the unions and GM off the hook?
If everyone is required to get government health insurance, wouldn’t that get the unions and GM off the hook?
I honestly believe that SOME of the very large corporations (GM,GE etc) are very much behind the so-called ‘health care’ reform.....
Good question! I remembered hearing something about union exemption and I searched -- but all I found was a question: Help Ask Questions About National Healthcare that Need Answers
3) Is it true that Unions are exempt from participating in the proposed healthcare system? (See HR 3200 page 53, Rules of Construction, which in effect says that collective bargaining agreements will be honored. That is, unions get to keep their own healthcare plans.) Like the teachers union (AFT), service workers (SEIU), hospital workers, carpenters, brick layers (BAC), Teamsters, AFL-CIO, electrical workers (IBEW), office and professional workers (OPEIU), auto workers (UAW), food workers ((UFCW)), flight attendants (AFA), municipal employees (AFSCME), screen actors (SAG) and other unions? See list of more unions - http://www.union-organizing.com/unions.html . No ambiguous answers please. Why would dozens of large Unions with millions of members be exempt from participation in the proposed healthcare system if their participation would lower the costs for all?
Something I've been wondering about is, if federal officials are exempt and unions are exempt (and -- by some accounts -- federal employees are exempt), who is going to be running their "alternative" plan? Or do they just get carte blanc and the gov't (read: taxpayers) will pay for whatever they want? Will some sort of private insurer be left to handle them?