Unions Respond to Obamacare Ruling with Silence

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In a Friday night news dump, the Obama administration announced that it would not allow Obamacare subsidies to go to union members on multi-employer “Taft-Hartley” health care plans.

The statutory langugage of the Affordable Care Act clearly states that subsidies are not supposed to go to individuals who are covered by employer-provided health insurance, but union leaders have aggressively and publicly pushed the Obama administration for a special accommodation.

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