Posted on 09/10/2009 8:27:54 AM PDT by AtlasStalled
In the heated debates on health-care reform, not enough attention is being paid to the huge financial windfalls ObamaCare will dole out to unions—or to the provisions in the various bills in Congress that will help bring about the forced unionization of the health-care industry. Tucked away in thousands of pages of complex new rules, regulations and mandates are special privileges and giveaways that could have devastating consequences for the health-care sector and the American economy at large. The Senate version opens the door to implement forced unionization schemes pursued by former Govs. Rod Blagojevich of Illinois in 2005 and Gray Davis of California in 1999. Both men repaid tremendous political debts to Andy Stern and his Service Employees International Union (SEIU) by reclassifying state-reimbursed in-home health-care (and child-care) contractors as state employees—and forcing them to pay union dues.
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ObamaCare the new Mafia.
With elimination of private insurance, private MDs will disappear, and the remaining ones will be employees of hospitals, who will....UNIONIZE. Cost of unionization will bloat medical costs further. Lenin: “Medicine is the keystone of the arch of the socialist state”. Most industrialized nation-states have socialized medicine BECAUSE they are socialist-states.
I remember just a couple of years ago union membership was at an all time low with a bleak future. Now they run the whole damn country, from Washington all the way down to the street sweepers.
Much of the author’s assessment is correct. However, medical personnel cannot strike without competently trained replacements on duty for them, as that would constitute abandonment of patients and open up the hospital and union itself I would think, to litigation.
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