Unions nab sweetheart health-care deal - NYPOST.com
by Steve on Jan.17, 2010, under Economy, Freedom, Obamanation Socialist Movement, Politics, Politics: National, Taxes, healthcare
Unions nab sweetheart health-care deal - NYPOST.com.
Friends in high places sure does help. Note that this was hammered out behind closed doors, which Obama said wouldn’t happen with him in the White House. Remember his promise to have all of this televised?
Big Labor got some big love from President Obama and congressional Democrats yesterday after they agreed to exempt union workers from the whopping “Cadillac tax” on high-cost health-care plans until 2018.
The sweetheart deal, hammered out behind closed doors, will save union employees at least $60 billion over the years involved, while others won’t be as lucky — they’ll have to cough up almost $90 billion.
The 40 percent excise tax on what have come to be called “Cadillac” health-care plans would exempt collective-bargaining contracts covering government employees and other union members until Jan. 1, 2018.
February 25th, 2010 on 9:01 pm
Wow and the continued pillaging of the private sector continues…
Thanks for posting this. The news had somehow slipped through my filters but I’m not surprised as this kind of news typically doesn’t garner much attention from the media.