White House Poised To Grant Unions Obamacare Subsidy: Report

The White House has tamped down the talk for weeks, but in the end, it’s looking as if union workers are getting a break on Obamacare.

“Weeks after denying labor’s request to give union members access to health-law subsidies, the Obama administration is signaling it intends to exempt some union plans from one of the law’s substantial taxes,” a report from Kaiser Health News stated.

The Weekly Standard said the subsidy proposal has been buried — quietly — in rules that were issued for Obamacare’s rollout, and that move suggests exemptions for “certain self-insured, self-administered plans” for reinsurance fees that kick in between 2015 and 2016. The fee is at least $63 per member and is expected to raise $25 billion in three years.
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