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Originally Posted by Craig
Actually, it sounds like they were given a "bribe" in 2003 to continue to provide drug benefits to their union retirees and the new bill has taken it away. I assume they will now get rid of that benefit in their next union contract.
The good news is that mandatory health coverage will make unions even less relevant and level the playing field for non-union workers. It also means that part of my phone bill will not be going to pay these union benefits.
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It doesn't apply to current employees, it applies to their retirees. They have sugary health care plans, and Big Business got a big fat sugar plum from the Republican Congress in 2003 so that their retirees would not get all pissy over being kicked off their sugary prescription drug plans onto Bush's crummy Medicare Prescription Drug plan, which would cost the GOP precious Florida votes in the 2004 election. Obama has ended this massive bribe, saving the taxpayer billions. And now it's spin time for the Death Panel Right. Logic and facts, they're a hell of a drug.