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Originally Posted by AnchorAlum
Can you imagine an auto worker leaving their job to go into another field with an HMO that the rest of the industrialized world is familiar with? I lived in the Detroit 'burbs for a few years and sat in waiting rooms, watched patients check out at the window and pay next to nothing for their care, while I paid a co-pay that was more in line with what everyone else outside of the UAW universe paid.
If you saw that on a regular basis, you'd understand what a "cadillac" plan is.
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They want to exempt unions from the cadillac plan tax for the first ten years of this gaggle. I think its bullshit that I have to pay a higher tax because I choose to participate in a high option plan but a union member with a comparable health plan is exempt purely because of
POLITICS! This along with the Nebraska Medicare deal and the other vote buying favors is really making me question if government health care is going to help us or make the problem even worse. Pick your Devil, big business or big government.
