Stop the Health Care Tax E action (corrected with link)

[Omaha Steve]

Action here: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/smwiahealth

Stop the Health Care Tax

In his failed run for the presidency, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) proposed taxing working families’ health care benefits as part of his deeply flawed plan for health care reform.

The reaction was immediate and direct. Unions, health care reform advocates and consumers resoundingly said 'NO" to the idea. Even Democratic candidate Barack Obama blasted the McCain proposal.

But today, the idea of taxing health care benefits has resurfaced. The call to tax your health care benefits is buried in legislation now being considered by the Senate Finance Committee as one of several possible ways to finance health care reform.

One of the greatest achievements of collective bargaining over the past 50 years has been the thousands of labor-management, multiemployer health and welfare trust funds that provide to covered, union-represented workers and their dependents various benefit coverages, including medical, hospitalization, preventive and wellness care, prescription drugs, dental care, and vision care. These have set the standard for health care coverage in America.



Now we are being punished for our success and are being called upon to fund health care coverage for the rest of America while anti-worker corporations are allowed to take a pass.



Health care reform is urgently needed in America. However, it cannot work if it is built on the backs of union members who worked to make health care possible for millions of American families.

Please take a moment to contact your Senators and Representatives in Congress and urge them to vote no to a health care benefits tax that would unfairly target union members.
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Access to health care coverage is a major problem facing millions of American families. Taxing the health care benefits of working families as income would increase the cost of health care and lead many employers to stop providing health benefits altogether, making the health care problem in America worse.

A tax on health care benefits targets middle-class families made up of middle-income Americans who are already struggling to pay their health care costs.

Take action here: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/smwiahealth

[doc03]

1. I'm with you on this but I don't see a link n/t

[sandnsea]

2. Oregon Democrats just passed this tax

to expand coverage to 95% of kids and more uninsured adults. Subsidized insurance, by the way.

I don't know why, but this is the way they're going in Oregon.

:shrug:

[doc03]

3. Thanks for link, also forwarded to others to send. n/t