Joseph Hansen, president of the 1.3 million member United food and Commercial Workers, has an op-ed up in the Hill today in which he pleads with the White House to alter the Affordable Care Act  – aka Obamacare — to keep it from undermining UFCW members’ insurance.

The basic problem is that most UFCW members have insurance plans that multiple employers pay into. These plans are organized as nonprofit entities. Unfortunately for these workers, Obamacare as it currently stands doesn’t extend any of its benefits,  such as a subsidy for low-income people and their families, to these entities.  But it does make the law’s penalties applicable to them.