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The Spectacle Blog
Last Friday, I noted how new regulations stemming from the national health care law could force a majority of workers to change their health care plans — breaking President Obama’s pledge that he would allow Americans who liked their plans to keep them.
But digging deeper into the regulations, David Hogberg and Sean Higgins of Investors Business Daily find that Obama’s big labor allies were granted a special exemption that would sheild their plans from new requirements:
Unions that had a health plan under a collective bargaining agreement by March 23, 2010, can switch insurers as long as the collective bargaining deal is in effect and not forfeit the grandfathered exemptions from many ObamaCare provisions. But anyone else - large business, small business, individual - who switches carriers loses their grandfathered status.
The idea of “grandfathered” health care plans was introduced to protect already existing plans from needing to abide by new requirements. But by the time the final version passed, the concept was rendered effectively meaningless by subsequent provisions that added another layer of regulation.
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Joanie| 6.14.10 @ 3:17PM
It must be good to be a Friend Of Obama. FOO.
He takes care of his own--at our expense.
frediano| 6.14.10 @ 7:43PM
tribal free-for-some. Same old same old.
LibsAreCommies| 6.14.10 @ 9:10PM
Would someone please remove these Commies from power now, "By any means necessary", before they can do any more harm to our nation.
Amy Summers| 6.15.10 @ 8:27AM
No Right to Work Law in WV. We are FORCED to join unions which perpetuates their power.
nskipper| 6.17.10 @ 7:52AM
Amy, the Unions were good when they first started, but as you see as they gained power they were no longer for the people. You need to form a good in WV and get your state to take the "No Right to Work Law " off the books. WE have seen how they are out to destroy this country and you just might be able to find support out their!!!!
Gary| 6.15.10 @ 10:07AM
Well the White House may not be partners with BP...but they are damn sure partners with the Unions...you talk about a group of true Americans... when was the last time they did anything that advance the growth of America???
Vanessa| 6.15.10 @ 3:15PM
Vote them all out this year and start with new, unpolitical blood.
james| 6.16.10 @ 2:49PM
how can anyone support obamacare when it is destroying and dening veterans healthcare