{"id":18380,"date":"2013-07-18T12:34:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=18380"},"modified":"2013-07-18T12:34:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T16:34:36","slug":"hoffa%e2%80%99s-son-helps-obamacare-kill-teamsters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/18380\/hoffa%e2%80%99s-son-helps-obamacare-kill-teamsters\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoffa\u2019s Son Helps ObamaCare Kill Teamsters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ObamaCare will kill the Teamsters union, and Jimmy Hoffa\u2019s son is an accomplice.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Hoffa\u2019s heir is in full damage-control mode.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/corporate-intelligence\/2013\/07\/12\/union-letter-obamacare-will-destroy-the-very-health-and-wellbeing-of-workers\/\" target=\"_blank\">an open letter<\/a> to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), James P. Hoffa \u2013 son of the famous Teamsters boss and the union\u2019s current General President \u2013 blasts the Obama White House for \u201cshatter[ing] not only our hard-earned health benefits, but destroy[ing] the foundation of the 40 hour work week that is the backbone of the American middle class.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Hoffa is upset that after lending his union\u2019s money and muscle to get ObamaCare passed, the Obama administration is refusing to carve out an exception for union-run health insurance providers. Absent the special treatment, union-run health insurance will become too expensive to offer. Without an attractive health insurance plan to offer its members, the Teamsters and every other union in their situation will lose one of the biggest incentives they have for retaining members.<\/p>\n<p>Having exhausted their pleas to the White House for special treatment, Hoffa and company are turning their unfriendly fire on congressional Democrats. \u201cTime is running out: Congress wrote this law; we voted for you. We have a problem, you need to fix it. The unintended consequences of [ObamaCare] are severe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/56-health-care\/1871-obamacare-dividing-unions-and-white-house\" target=\"_blank\">I explained in a recent column<\/a>, the problem for Hoffa and his union brethren is that they failed to get the kind of concrete assurances from the Obama administration that are standard operating procedure when it comes to negotiating with private businesses.<\/p>\n<p>That failure will cost them dearly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ObamaCare will kill the Teamsters union, and Jimmy Hoffa\u2019s son is an accomplice. Now, Hoffa\u2019s heir is in full damage-control mode. In an open letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), James P. Hoffa \u2013 son of the famous Teamsters boss and the union\u2019s current General President [&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":[84,3308,4200,1829,35,1447,4201,1051],"class_list":["post-18380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-health","tag-hoffa","tag-insurance","tag-obamacare","tag-reform","tag-teamsters","tag-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18380","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=18380"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18385,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18380\/revisions\/18385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}