No matter what your politics, this has to bother you:
Accord Reached on Insurance Tax for Costly Plans – New York Times
“Let me tell you something,” Mr. Obama said, pointing to elements of the legislation he said would increase access to health care. “If Republicans want to campaign against what we’ve done by standing up for the status quo and for insurance companies over American families and businesses, that is a fight I want to have.”
But there’s nothing wrong with standing by the status quo when it comes to unions, I guess.
Labor’s $60 Billion Payoff Wall Street Journal
So emerging from their backrooms, Democrats have agreed to extend a special exemption from the Cadillac tax to any health plan that is part of a collective-bargaining agreement, plus state and local workers, many of whom are unionized. Everyone else with a higher-end plan will start to be taxed in 2013, but union members will get a free pass until 2018.
Ponder that one for a moment. Two workers who are identical in every respect—wages, job, health plan—will be treated differently by the tax system, based solely on union membership.
Tell me that this isn’t a boon for unions and a great big “screw you” to everyone else.
For more:
• Unions Will Dodge O’s Health Tax – New York Post
• Labor, White House Have Deal on Insurance Tax – MSNBC
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