Union Contract Can Exempt Health Plan From ObamaCare

Investor's Business Daily ^ | 6/14/2010 | David Hogberg and Sean Higgins

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Under new rules, your employer can't change insurers without losing your health plan's exemptions from ObamaCare regulations. That is, unless a union negotiated your coverage. The administration has granted a special exception to those — and apparently only those — health care plans. A health plan is deemed "grandfathered" if it was purchased before March 23, 2010, and no major changes are made later. Such plans are exempt from most ObamaCare requirements. But new rules, officially announced Monday, make it hard to keep that status.

[bergmeid]

We’re going to have to undo all of that first opportunity we get. I hope someone is keeping a list of all that so we can just check things off as we go. We’re going to be very busy.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

This mishmash should be at the top of the list.

[Le Chien Rouge]

ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUAL, BUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERS.

[K-oneTexas]

In the south many states are ‘Right To Work’ and unions are not as big.

AFSCME has members but a majority are not members. So, if AFSCME is here and ‘negotiates’ and their members are included in a health plan with non-union members ...

Does that exempt the entire plan? Or just the plan for the union members?

Wonder how the government with split this hair.

[ClearCase_guy]

Look for the union label.

[precisionshootist]

The entire bill and anything that went with it go’s, period. Don’t accept any other solution or even any debate on any other solution.

[freekitty]

If they can; we can too.

[yetidog]

What about “due process and equal protection” of the 14th Amendment that liberals love?

[Buckeye McFrog]

well, Shazam! Lookie there! A whole new set of incentives to join a union! Imagine that! /sarc

[cvq3842]

I wonder whether, if someone said they would like to see ALL the provisions of the new health care law applied to the President, Vice President, Congress, etc., the person would be investigated by the Secret Service for making threats to the life of these government officers.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

I can see November from my house.....

[highlander_UW]

We’re going to have to undo all of that first opportunity we get.

Or we just form our own union to avoid Obamacare. Although I had two other avenues I was considering. I'm part Native American, and I could formalize ties with my tribe and avoid Obamacare that way...or I could join a denomination that is exempted on religious grounds. Of course the best way is just to cancel the Obomination care.