Baucus Health Care Bill

[Freedom4all]

Not looking good, as it levys a huge tax upon insurance plans. Plans that target a majority of union negotiated health care insurance plans.

Unions not happy about it at all.

AFL-CIO Leaders Chant Denunciations of Baucus Health-Care Plan

Sept. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Union leaders denounced a proposed overhaul of the U.S. health system introduced today by Senator Max Baucus, saying it fails to pressure insurance companies for savings and would tax health plans.

Delegates at the AFL-CIO’s convention in Pittsburgh chanted “bullshitâ€￾ in response to the plan from the Senate Finance Committee’s chairman. They were led in the chant by Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees. He said the labor federation’s members should lobby against the proposal because it doesn’t mandate that employers provide health insurance and “taxes our health plans.â€￾

Health Care Proposal to Tax Insurers May Affect Blue-Collar Workers

The Baucus plan would impose a 35 percent tax on any plan that costs the individual more than $8,000 a year and a family more than $21,000. Those gold-plated or so-called Cadillac plans are enjoyed by many high-powered executives but most often by another group.

"Many people who work in labor unions who have negotiated comprehensive benefits through their collective bargaining agreements are going to be hit by this tax," Tuffin said.

In fact, AFSCME, the union of public employees criticized the Baucus plan Wednesday and pointed specifically to the fee on insurance plans, saying it "taxes health plans that provide benefits for many middle class families."

 

[southwind]

Didn't Nobama just have a big town-hall chat with the AFL-CIO, telling them that this is part of the hope n' change thing they've been waiting for ? :blink: