https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/12/01/seiu-healthcare-fund-abandons-children/feed/Conservative News & Politicsen-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:38:38 -0400<![CDATA[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&#8230; 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 &#8211; 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 &#8211; 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.]]>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:30:24 -0500<![CDATA[Moe Lane]]>https://redstate.com/moe_lane/2010/12/01/seiu-healthcare-fund-abandons-children-n37155