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SEIU healthcare fund abandons children.

By: Moe Lane (Diary)  |  December 1st, 2010 at 08:30 AM  | 

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Please note, not every SEIU healthcare fund*. The specific one doing the abandoning is a New York fund for 1199 SEIU, which parent organization lobbied heavily for Obamacare… let us briefly walk this one through.  SEIU needs more members if it wants to cover its underfunded obligations.  So it went heavily for Obamacare.  Obamacare includes mandates on expanding coverage for dependents to age 26.  Rates went up – the health care provider claims that this is unrelated to the previous sentence, but the union itself is using the dependent coverage situation to explain away the situation – so the fund dropped coverage of minors as being too expensive.  And, as the topping on the cake: this hits lower-income workers the hardest, of course.

The union wants to blame New York state for not increasing its coverage of the union’s obligations, but is taking the time to also insist that it’s NOT BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE.  Megan McArdle would like to know why they’re writing explanation letters otherwise; I’ll just note that if SEIU spent more dues money on helping their members and less money on being a raddled shill for the Democratic party then they would have been able to cover the rate hike.  In fact, they can still do that.

Not that SEIU will.  It’s still barely easier for them to lobby for taking other people’s money.  Besides, nobody at the national administrative level is going to be harmed by this, anyway.

Moe Lane (crosspost)

*Yet.

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  • Warrior

    Keep their feet to the fire. What I hope does not happen is that this gets turned against conservatives as another example of how we “don’t care for the less fortunate.” I can already see Inez Gonzales on NBC Nightly News explaining why her child can’t get treatment for his or her malady. The only obvious answer is that heartless conservatives failed to fully fund Obamacare.

    Of course, no one will want to hear that it’s gubmint involvement in the health field in the first place which has skewed the market and created the huge imbalances we are now facing. Mark Levin was talking about this last night on his radio program. The leftists use gubmint power, redtape, taxes, other interference to distort a market, then turn around and holla that “capitalism is a failure” and “capitalism is a heartless system” (which it is, but not in the sense they mean.)

    Take housing for instance. With the Community Reinvestment Act, Carter began distorting the housing market by pressuring banks and other lending institutions to make loans they wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot-pole otherwise. This coercion continued until its command performance under the direction of drama queen Bawney Fwank and featuring the Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac debacle. (You didn’t know Fwank was a magician as well, did you? “Ladies and Gentlemen, Fannie and Freddie are in solid condition ['07].” And “Voila, F & F are insolvent and need regulation ['08].”) Notice, this latest trick didn’t come until AFTER the house of cards came tumbling down (pun intended.)

    And so it goes with healthcare. The gubmint ALREADY controls a third of the healthcare field and with obvious results. Violating the principles of the marketplace only interferes with its effectiveness. Doubling down on gubmint healthcare failure with Obamacare will only serve to destroy it. Why, pray, are we chasing down this smelly rathole when all other countries that have followed it down are now desperately trying to dig themselves out of it? Well, if you answered “union influence” your getting close.

  • http://theminorityreportblog.com Repair_Man_Jack

    when “Progressives” piss on the children!