After six months of debating health care legislation, I have to admit that I have no clue what the current health care bill accomplishes. But, I do know that Americans should be outraged by the deal President Obama cut with labor unions this week.
One key way that Democrats propose to pay for "health care reform" is to impose a new tax on "Cadillac" health insurance policies. But, now it turns out that labor unions will be exempted from this tax.
How ironic that part of this health care reform package penalizes some Americans for having too good of health insurance plans. I can't say how that makes sense. But now, the Democrats are picking who will be penalized and who will not.
87% of Americans do not belong to labor unions. But for the 13% of Americans who are part of a union, the government is saying that the rest of us should pay more than those 13%.
So, organized labor, the majority of whom are government workers, will not be taxed on their "Cadillac" health insurance policy. Meanwhile the rest of Americans will.
This stinks of political corruption at its highest level. The Democrats need a way to pay for their health care reform and are unfairly choosing who should pay the burden. Like too often, Government, both Democrats and Republicans, are hurting middle class Americans. We should not stand for this.
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I agree with you. I do not want the government running health care or anything else. They ruined social security (which is broke officially). The social security trust fund has no money, only IOUs. Medicare is a joke. Anything the government touches they mess it up. I’ve seen it personally having worked 21 years for govt. Our union AFSCME was also a joke, full of corruption. The average taxpayer having never worked for govt has no idea what goes on. I admit our health system is not perfect, but a federal takeover is NOT the answer.