Posted on 10/14/2013 6:07:39 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Labor unions are poised to score the delay of an ObamaCare tax in the bipartisan budget deal emerging in the Senate.
The bargain under negotiation would make small adjustments to the healthcare law, including delaying the law's reinsurance fee for one year. The three-year tax is meant to generate revenue that will stabilize premiums on the individual market as sick patients enter the risk pool.
The reinsurance tax figured prominently in discussions at a recent AFL-CIO convention, where workers passed a resolution demanding changes to ObamaCare.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
These articles miss the little point that the problem is in the House not Senate. But isn’t it nice they want to exempt democrats from Obamacare. Oy
This should be a deal breaker......crickets from GOP
Republicans are a sorry arse lot of cowards, enablers and eunuchs. Eff’em.
There is no deal.
It’s not a deal breaker at all. Done deal in the austere senate and if it comes to the floor of the house there are enough vichy republicans to pass it there as well.
Everyone is equal.. Some more equal than others..
Equal protection anyone?
“The tax applies to all group health plans, but unions argue it will raise their healthcare costs while providing them no benefit. “
ya and? I don’t like it either but you (unions) supported the guy that pushed it and the party that rammed it down our throats.
Eat your shyt samwich and like it.
From each according to his ability, to each according to his need has been the mantra of the labor movement for a long time. Why the change?
Well they haven’t got it yet.
At tomorrow’s meeting Mitch may reach into Lindsey’s make-up bag and pull out his blue eye make-up and smear it over half his (Mitch’s) face and say to his caucus:
“Dying in your beds many years from now, would you be willing to trade all the days from this day to that for one chance, just one chance to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they’ll never take our freedom!”
Aye! I’d rather die on my feet than live on my knees.
Where is William Wallace when we really need him?
THEN IT’S NO FREAKING DEAL!!!
Show me any company in America who can't make the same argument, union or otherwise.
McCain and Graham. Instead of taking the ObamaCare monkey off the backs of the American people, they’re looking out for the commie union Neanderthals who pushed ObamaCare through. Wow! This one party Amerika is something else. The RNC has been calling me all day long. Caller I.D. is a wonderful thing. They can KMA.
It seems the Senate is going to try to “jam” the House on Thursday and then leave town, take-it-or-leave-it. My guess is, the House will say eff you to the senate if it contains anything like a special interest exemption for the Democrat unions. You could be right that a handful of squishy-Vichy Republicans would help the rats pass such a bill, but that could only happen if the Hastert rule is flushed down the toilet by House leadership. That’s not going to happen.
Can you imagine the outrage if the House passes ANYTHING without a majority of Republicans supporting it?
That is the point. Unions and others on group plans are supposed to pay and get no benefit - so that others can get a benefit without paying what that benefit actually costs. Socialism doesn't sound quite as nice when you see who pays and how little everyone gets once medical care becomes a commodity delivered with all the warmth of the IRS and the efficiency of the DMV.
If only Boehner had the guts to say that the House will reconvene the day after the Senate is back in session.
I agree no $ for the RNC - only the TEP.
Oh boy, big surprise here.... /s
How can this government legally exempt unions muslims amish Indians etc from a “national healthcare” TAX?
oh wait, “legally”
who needs a steekin’ Constitution
apparently these unions don’t really want to pay for healthcare for the poor, downtrodden, and Georgetown Law students who can’t afford birth control
abortions and maternity coverage don’t benefit the average 60 year old couple either but they are being forced to buy it or pay extra TAX for not buying it, but the UNIONS are “exempt”?
"It seems the Senate is going to try to “jam” the House on Thursday and then leave town, take-it-or-leave-it."
That's exactly what they're trying to do... and Mitch McConnell is in the driver's seat, allowing it to happen. It's disgusting.
What is a reinsurance fee?
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