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ObamaCare’s Union Favor

Almost no business in the real world still follows this old-fashioned practice as both medicine and medical billing have become more complex. The major exception is a certain type of collectively bargained insurance trust known as Taft-Hartley plans. Such insurance covers about 20 million union members, and four out of five Taft-Hartley trusts are self-administered.

There’s no conceivable rationale—other than politics—for releasing union-only plans from a tax that is defined as universal in the Affordable Care Act statute. Like so many other ObamaCare waivers, this labor dispensation will probably turn out to be illegal.

And by the way, this favor harms all other taxpayers. The IRS assesses the reinsurance tax in annual tranches; it must collect $12 billion in 2014, $8 billion in 2015 and $5 billion 2016. So the smaller pool of ordinary people without a union card will pay a larger individual share of the same overall amount.

Count all of this as one more illustration of the way that ObamaCare has put politicians in control of health care. Some people get taxed but others don’t, some people get subsidies but others don’t, and some have to pay more so Mr. Obama can deliver favors to his political constituents.

via Review & Outlook: ObamaCare’s Union Favor – WSJ.com.

Poll: Mitt Romney beats President Obama today

Here’s your pattern future candidates, with regard to this lazy electorate, lie through your teeth, tell them everything they want to hear, offer ways for them to be more lazy, and less accountable, and you will be president the matter how unbelievably incapable you are.

The door that was left partially open in the past, and passed-through by terrible humans, this is the only wall that Obama has thoroughly knocked down — any semblance of integrity on the part of a Democrat candidate for president of the United States.

Poll: Mitt Romney beats President Obama today – Tal Kopan – POLITICO.com.