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Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 04:59 AM Aug 2014

Unions Can Lead the Struggle for Single-Payer Health Care

Despite passage of the 2010 health care reform bill, employers continue to push for cuts in benefits and to shift costs to workers in higher monthly payments, co-pays, and deductibles.

Wage increases are always trumped by this costly health care monster. Some employers, in anticipation of the $2,000 annual fine for not offering health insurance, are threatening to drop coverage and instead pay the cheaper fine.

Many companies are dropping benefits for spouses, retirees, and part-timers. Current law does not stop them. Multiemployer plans are disadvantaged by the preferable treatment available to the plans of non-union employers. The 2018 excise tax will cap the ability to bargain better health benefits. Insurance companies continue to decide what doctors and hospitals workers can use.

http://my.firedoglake.com/kaytillow/2014/08/18/unions-can-lead-the-struggle-for-single-payer-health-care/

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Unions Can Lead the Struggle for Single-Payer Health Care (Original Post) Sherman A1 Aug 2014 OP
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Doctor_J

(36,392 posts)
1. No supporters of note in DC
Thu Aug 28, 2014, 01:10 PM
Aug 2014

The president's HHS secretary and our presumptive nominee have both declared in public that there is no way they will let SP happen. Obama surrendered it without a fight in 2009-2010. If the "leadership" of the more liberal of the two parties won't support, the chances of it happening are zero. the law as written is an absolute bad joke of loopholes, exemptions, unaffordable costs, and guaranteed windfall profits for insurance.

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