Government Health-Care: Card-Check in Disguise?
Is health-care reform actually a back-channel way to increase union membership? Well, the effort to pass card-check is wobbling on the brink of death, but if Max Baucus (D-MT) has his way, it won’t be necessary. He’ll just punish you if you’re not in a union.
Union members and their families who receive healthcare benefits paid for by their employers would be exempted from a new tax on healthcare under one option being proposed by Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mt), according to a report by the Fox Business Channel’s Peter Barnes.
Baucus’s plan would tax health care benefits to raise from $161.9 billion to $418 billion over ten years to fund the nationalized “government provider” of health care benefits President Obama and Democrats want. Peter Barnes told me, “There would be preferential treatment for unions” under one version of the Baucus proposal.
As shown on page 3 of the Baucus outline published by Fox News under two of Baucus’ four options, healthcare benefits provided under collective bargaining agreements dated on or before January 1, 2013 would be exempt from the tax.
Nice. I wonder, will the Democrats hire leg-breakers to collect your taxes if you don’t join a union? Seems that would fit right into the theme of their proposal.
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- The ObamaCare Cheat Sheet
Category: Health Care Craziness, Our New Democratic Overlords
