National Nurses United Wants House To Hold The Line On Health Tax On Workers

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/12708

Submitted by Doug Cunningham on January 6, 2010 - 5:13pm
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By Doug Cunningham

National Nurses United, America's largest nurses' union, is calling on House members to hold the line in opposing a tax on working family healthcare benefits. The union says it is unconscionable that workers and their families would have their coverage highly taxed and seriously eroded. National Nurses United Co-President Deborah Burger says advocates of the healthcare benefits tax have made it clear that the intent is to force working people into cheaper, higher-deductible plans that provide less coverage while shifting more of the costs to workers.

[clear eye]

1. "the intent is to force working people into cheaper, higher-deductible plans"

Hmm. They seem to have inside info that supports what I've said in my posts about what the effect of the tax will be.

Yes, the House should cut that out. What happened to raising the income tax on the highest income level to keep us afloat after the bank bailouts?

Making my calls today.