Obama: Multiemployer Plans Work (“If you like your health care plan, you will be able to keep....)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.acawhitepaper.org/

“If you like your health care plan,
you will be able to keep your health care plan.”

President Obama spoke those words in the midst of the 2009 health care debate.

But more than 26 million Americans covered by multiemployer health plans are at risk of losing their benefits altogether
thanks to loopholes in the Affordable Care Act.

For more than 65 years, multiemployer plans have provided affordable, quality coverage for American workers. Found in many
industries, the plans allow small businesses to team up with other employers to pool risk and reduce costs in order to provide
high-quality health care for workers.

A new white paper from the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers lays out the provisions in the law that put multiemployer plans at risk – and what President Obama and Congress can do to fix them.

“The IBEW is a strong supporter of the Affordable Care Act because the goal of making sure every American has access to quality and affordable health coverage has been a legislative priority for the IBEW since our founding,” says IBEW President Edwin D. Hill. “But our members and allied employers have worked hard for the healthcare they have, and President Obama must move now to guarantee that his signature law will not cost them their coverage.”

VIDEO, ad, and report at link.

[pnwmom]

1. Unfortunately, the Rethugs won't lift a finger to help these people.

And the ACA can't be changed without their help in the House.