Union Letter: Obamacare Will ‘Destroy The Very Health and Wellbeing’ of Workers

[zipplewrath]

35. No

They modified the law to give the unions time to renegotiate their plans to bring them into line with the "cadillac" tax. The real complaint here is that people who have union based plans, but would otherwise be eligible for subsidies (due to their income levels) can't get subsidies for their health insurance because they aren't on the exchanges. They are for union members only. So the for profit companies get a credit for their being a health insurance plan, but the employees don't get a subsidy for having to buy it. So they have to renegotiate their plans to avoid the tax, but they STILL won't be eligible for the subsidy. Very progressive plan we have here.

The ACA isn't perfect, and everyone acknowledges that. This is one of the imperfections and nothing is being done about it.

They're screwed on the 30 hour schtick. There's no way to fix that mess. At best all they could do is demand that employees working less than 30 hours get some sort of suppliment to help them offset the cost of purchasing insurance on the exchanges. But since their income would be so low, they probably couldn't afford it anyway, and probably wouldn't even qualify for the subsidy.