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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: James Cessna on March 09, 2011, 06:28:57 PM
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The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) is lobbying hard against the amendment offered by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) to repeal the healthcare reform law.
SEIU’s outspoken defense of the law has prompted charges of hypocrisy from Republicans, given that some of the union’s chapters have sought waivers exempting them from a key provision of the law requiring the phaseout of health plans with low caps on annual benefits.
Proponents of the law argue that some limited-benefits health plans should be exempted temporarily from phaseout because it would cause low-income and part-time workers to lose insurance or see their premiums rise.
Some of its chapters have obtained waivers, the union concedes, but notes the waivers were anticipated by Democrats who passed the law.
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/141833-seiu-fights-healthcare-repeal-after-obtaining-waivers-from-law
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Nice of the SEIU to work at getting more republicans elected.
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