Unions and Obamacare

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Unions have found that ObamaCare will cost them money and possibly membership.

Charles Lane, in the Washington Post, points out that unions negotiate “Cadillac” health coverage as a primary service to their members. Under the Affordable Care Act those plans get hit with a 40% excise tax.

So, while Big Business gets waived from the “employer mandate”, Big Labor gets nothing.

Unions Left Out

Don’t know why the Republicans haven’t jumped on this, but they should at least be pleased to learn that Obama’s not a socialist.

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