The presidents of about a dozen labor unions will meet with President Barack Obama on Monday to push him to limit the scope of a proposed tax on high-cost insurance plans.
Labor sources acknowledge they will not succeed in completely eliminating the tax, but they hope to raise its threshold so that fewer labor households feel the impact.
“At the end of the day there’s going to be a compromise,” said a labor official.
Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU), told The Hill on Friday that the final bill would likely include some form of the excise tax.
“When you have a president who says he wants to incorporate it and a Senate that says it wants to incorporate it and some in the House who say they want to incorporate it, it’s hard to look that in the face and say we can just win this outright,” Stern said.
Obama will meet on Monday with Stern and the heads of several other powerful unions.
Other attendees include Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO; Gerald McEntee, president of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME); and Larry Cohen, president of the Communication Workers of America.
The Senate bill would raise about $150 billion from 2013 to 2019 by taxing employer-provided health plans costing more than $8,500 for individuals and $23,000 for families.
Labor officials, citing an analysis by the Joint Committee on Taxation, claim this would hit nearly 31 million households by 2019. -RCP Story
This is a great story. Everyone should read it and understand just how this whole Health Care Bill will impact you.
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