ObamaCare forces SEIU to drop coverage for 6,000 children due to costs. Ha Ha!!

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Obamacare Forces Union to Drop Insurance for 6,000 Children
November 29, 2010 | Filed Under Anti-Americanism, Barack Obama, Budget, Democrats/Leftists, Economy/Finances, Government, Government, Corruption, Health, Law, Liberals, Regulation, SEIU, Taxes, Unions, Warner Todd Huston |

http://www.publiusforum.com/2010/11/29/obamacare-forces-union-to-drop-insurance-for-6000-children/


-By Warner Todd Huston

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Remember how Obama said that if you liked your healthcare plan you could keep it? Apparently someone forgot to tell the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in New York because they’ve announced that Obamacare is forcing them to drop coverage for the children of its 30,000 low-wage members.

The union will be dropping coverage for 6,000 children starting in the new year because new state and federal rules will drive up its costs 60% causing it to face a “dramatic shortfall” between what employers contribute and the premiums charged by the insurance provider.

The union is blaming both state and federal rules but had this to say about the new rules Obamacare is forcing upon it.

“In addition, new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26,” Behroozi wrote in a letter to members Oct. 22. “Our limited resources are already stretched as far as possible, and meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.”

And what is the solution to this, wonders the SEIU? Why more payoffs from government, of course.

“We hope the state of New York will do the right thing and provide the funding necessary for this most vulnerable population of direct caregivers,” the union said in a statement.

Unbelievable. Government makes laws forcing a union to drop coverage after telling everyone it would never do such and thing and the union wants even more government as a solution?

How does that saying go? “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again always expecting different results.”
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“In addition, new federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26,” Behroozi wrote in a letter to members Oct. 22. “Our limited resources are already stretched as far as possible, and meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.”


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Once again - economic reality eludes the minds of deluded left wing morons, idiots, incompetents, and uneducated fools. 

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Labor Union Health Fund Drops Children’s Health Coverage, Blames ObamaCare
Peter Suderman | November 29, 2010


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How do you know when your fancy new progressive health law ain’t working so well? Even health funds run by big labor unions blame decisions to drop kids’ coverage on the law's new health insurance burdens:

One of the largest union-administered health-insurance funds in New York is dropping coverage for the children of more than 30,000 low-wage home attendants, union officials said. The union blamed financial problems it said were caused by the state’s health department and new national health-insurance requirements.

The fund is administered by 1199SEIU United Healthcare Workers East, an affiliate of the Service Employees International Union....The fund informed its members late last month that their dependents will no longer be covered as of Jan. 1, 2011. Currently about 6,000 children are covered by the benefit fund, some until age 23.

The problem? One of the law’s new “consumer benefits”—the requirement that health plans cover dependents (children) up until age 26—is just too daggone expensive:

New federal health-care reform legislation requires plans with dependent coverage to expand that coverage up to age 26,” Behroozi wrote in a letter to members Oct. 22. “Our limited resources are already stretched as far as possible, and meeting this new requirement would be financially impossible.”

Supporters of the overhauls have shrugged off cost-concerns by saying that, well, they’re not that expensive. After all, the increased age requirement for dependents only drives up average plan premiums by about one percent. That may not sound like much, but any new costs at all can spell trouble for a financially strapped health fund. And in this case, it looks like the union health plan was in trouble before the health overhaul passed (it also ended up in a dispute with state health regulators). So while the PPACA’s new regulations don’t account for all the fund’s coverage reductions and fiscal trouble, they certainly aren’t making the situation any easier.

More on the PPACA and children’s health coverage here and here.

http://reason.com/blog/2010/11/29/labor-union-health-fund-drops

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Why is it the liberal defenders always chickenshit away from these threads...oh, that's right. 

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I have to remember to include palin or bush in the headline next time.

[Hereford]

Wait a minute....

So unionites kids aren't going to get free health care now?

OH THE HUMANITY!!!!

Just a little FYI... anytime the "but the children..." defense is presented, it should raise your bullshit detector level.

If the goddamn union was so concerned, why didn't THEY volunteer for a self-pay rate increase to covere their spawn?

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