{"id":18044,"date":"2013-05-25T16:21:51","date_gmt":"2013-05-25T20:21:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18044"},"modified":"2013-05-25T16:21:51","modified_gmt":"2013-05-25T20:21:51","slug":"unions-now-hit-with-obamacare%e2%80%99s-glitches-and-gaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18044\/unions-now-hit-with-obamacare%e2%80%99s-glitches-and-gaps\/","title":{"rendered":"Unions Now Hit with ObamaCare\u2019s Glitches and Gaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Up to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/8301-250_162-57586030\/now-some-unions-upset-over-obamacare\/\" target=\"_blank\">20 million union members and their families will be ineligible for ObamaCare subsidies<\/a> to help pay for their Cadillac-style health insurance plans, says CBS News.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, members of unions for part-time and seasonal workers and their dependents will likely have to choose between higher premiums to stay on their plans \u2013 whose cost will rise because of the health law\u2019s new coverage mandates \u2013 or cheaper plans that cover less \u2013 but are subsidized \u2013 on the state-based ObamaCare exchanges.<\/p>\n<p>The reason for the choice is because ObamaCare only gives subsidies to people who are not covered by their employer. If union members opt to stay with the plans jointly administered by their union and their employer, then they, in effect, are choosing higher premiums.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, opting out of the union\u2019s negotiated health benefits makes union membership itself a much less attractive prospect, causing union leaders to fear that a mass exodus by members to qualify for ObamaCare subsidies will have the effect of shrinking union enrollment.<\/p>\n<p>For its part, the Obama administration is refusing to carve out any exceptions for the affected unions, prompting at least one union official to say, \u201cIn the rush to achieve its passage, many of the act\u2019s provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer-sponsored coverage could keep it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to the club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Up to 20 million union members and their families will be ineligible for ObamaCare subsidies to help pay for their Cadillac-style health insurance plans, says CBS News. Instead, members of unions for part-time and seasonal workers and their dependents will likely have to choose between higher premiums to stay on their plans \u2013 whose cost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3007,4155,4154,3308,735,35,2249,1051],"class_list":["post-18044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-exchange","tag-gap","tag-glitch","tag-health","tag-irs","tag-obamacare","tag-subsidy","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18049,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18044\/revisions\/18049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}