Posted on 01/11/2010 2:19:12 PM PST by Bill Dupray
This is a red herring. The solution to the "logjam" was already floated last summer when the Senate was debating the Baucus bill.
Union members and their families who receive healthcare benefits paid for by their employers would be exempted from a new tax on healthcare under one option being proposed by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mt), according to a report by the Fox Business Channel’s Peter Barnes.
Baucus’s plan would tax health care benefits to raise from $161.9 billion to $418 billion over ten years to fund the nationalized “government provider” of health care benefits President Obama and Democrats want. Peter Barnes told me, “There would be preferential treatment for unions” under one version of the Baucus proposal.
As shown on page 3 of the Baucus outline published by Fox News under two of Baucus’ four options, healthcare benefits provided under collective bargaining agreements dated on or before January 1, 2013 would be exempt from the tax.
(Excerpt) Read more at patriotroom.com ...
As the 13th Amendment goes, so goes the 14th.
Unions, Politicians, illgal immigrants, government employees and preferred minorities will be exempt.
Equal Protection Clause violation?
Was "everyone has to have insurance" even mentioned when this thing started??
Wait and see if Non-Exempt (i.e. hourly) employees get a carve-out to protect unions.
Sure, why not? The motto of the Obama Administration is “everybody get some!”, so by that logic, sure, what the hell.
An old question about ursine activity in a sylvan setting suggests itself here.
btt
Let’s finish this freepathon!
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