Koch Industries Applies For Federal Funds From Health Care Law It Opposes

[Emit]

Today, the Department of Health and Human Services announced the “first round of applicants accepted into the Early Retiree Reinsurance Program,” a $5 billion program established by the new health care law to help employers and states “maintain coverage for early retirees age 55 and older who are not yet eligible for Medicare.” According to the agency, “nearly 2,000 employers, representing large and small businesses, State and local governments, educational institutions, non-profits, and unions” applied and have been accepted into the program and “will begin to receive reimbursements for employee claims this fall.”

Ironically, one of those employers is the oil, chemicals, and manufacturing conglomerate Koch Industries, which as Lee Fang has reported, has also spent millions of dollars opposing reform...


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http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/08/31/koch-earlyretiree/

[Better Today]

1. I don't mind they applying as much as I mind them having it granted to them.

Seems that all spending bills should have an addendum that specifies that any company, state, county, or city that acts against the bill will not be able to acquire the benefits of the bill.